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03 Oct 2022
Kristin Reihman, MD & Nicole DeBoom: Trailer | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:26:34
When I decided to release all the Healing Grove talks as a podcast, I had no idea what it would entail. So I did what anyone would do: I looked around at who I knew doing podcasts well, and started asking questions. My friend Nicole DeBoom, who swam with me at Yale and is one of my all around favorite humans ever, has released not one, not two, but THREE podcasts in the past few years, so I asked her. And she not only provided me with a ton of resources and the role modeling of her own journey, but she also agreed to help me out with this, the introduction to The Healing Grove Podcast. I think the rest of this brief interview speaks for itself. You can learn more about Nicole here: https://www.nicoledeboom.com.
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Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD: Food, Addiction & the Brain | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:56:51
Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson is a psychology professor with a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For sixteen years, she struggled with her relationship with food. She dieted again and again, binged on cookie dough, was clinically depressed, and even turned to illicit drugs for a period of time. In her darkest hours, she would lie in the fetal position and literally pray for her weight issue to be removed.
That all ended in 2003, when Susan discovered a solution that changed her life. It was not a pill, but rather a commitment to certain "bright lines" that she agreed once and for all never to cross again. In the nearly twenty years since her discovery, Susan has been in what she calls her "right sized body," and has been teaching her bright lines to others, with incredible results. In this conversation, she will be talking about food, addiction, and her Bright Line Eating program.
As it happens, Susan Peirce Thompson is hosting an upcoming series of free webinars. Register for free, here
Scott Forsgren: Eleven Steps to a Full Recovery | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:06:23
Scott Forsgren was in his 20s when he was struck down with a mysterious medical illness that ultimately turned out to be a combination of Lyme, multiple co-infections, mold, and a host of other issues that sadly are all too common in our toxic world. Forty-five doctors later, he finally had a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Scott eventually regained his vitality, but wow! What a journey.
Ever since then, Scott Forsgren has been on a quest to share his learnings with the world, via a regular blogcast, a website, and through his informative newsletters--all for free. Visit his website here: https://www.betterhealthguy.com
In this talk, Scott walks us systematically through the eleven steps that he believes need to be at least considered for anyone struggling to recover from a complex, baffling illness--or to prevent one from occurring in the first place. He then takes a deeper dive into each step, providing an almost encyclopedic delivery of everything he has found useful in that regard.
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Stephanie Seneff, PhD: The Dangers of Roundup | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:55:51
Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior researcher at MIT who has spent the past decade focusing on the biological effects of the pervasive herbicide glyphosate, also known as RoundUpTM. In this sobering talk, we hear about just how prevalent this herbicide is in our world today, and begin to scratch the surface of the myriad of harmful effects it has in the body. As with last week’s talk, there may be some overwhelm for you while listening, but Stephanie leaves us with a short and sweet list of steps we can take not only to reduce our exposure to this substance, but also to support the body in eliminating it.
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Sunjya Schweig,MD: The Puzzle of Complex Illness | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:35:38
This week we continue to map the terrain, but from a slightly different angle and with an eye towards what we might need to cultivate--both inner and outer--in order to be optimally well. This week's talk by my colleague Dr. Sunjya Schweig addresses systems of care designed to boost the engagement of the most important person on your healing team: you.
I have personally been following Dr. Schweig’s work for a long time. Not only is he a functional medicine expert who is brilliant at articulating how to get to the root of complex, chronic, mysterious symptoms, but he also has a genuine heart for his patients, and a desire to serve. Like me, he is a family doctor whose career took an unexpected detour due to a complex mystery illness--not his own illness, but that of his wife. Since then, he has become a leader in the world of integrative, holistic, evidence-based and data-driven practice, teaching doctors and scientists both nationally and internationally that multi-system illnesses such as Lyme, SIBO, and mold injury need both a “high tech” (data-driven) and “high-touch” (heart-centered and holistic) approach.
To learn more about Dr. Schweig and the California Center for Functional Medicine, visit: https://www.ccfmed.com
Other resources mentioned in this podcast: -ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) https://www.ilads.org
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Zen Honeycutt: Why Eating Organic Matters | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:50:47
Zen Honeycutt, founder and CEO of Moms Across America, never set out to be the leader of a national movement raising awareness about toxins in our food supply. She was a mom...and then two of her three kids got sick. One developed food allergies so severe they almost lost him one Thanksgiving when he inadvertently ingested a pecan that was hidden in the stuffing. Another went from a happy, healthy, academically strong adolescent to severe symptoms of autism in a matter of months. You will hear in this incredible interview how she ultimately recovered them both, and how it sparked in her a deep sense of purpose and obligation to share what she now knows with others.
For more information on Moms Across America and their latest news, go to:
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Craig Emmerich: The Carnivore Diet | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:51:42
Craig and Maria Emmerich have been teaching people how to use the ketogenic diet to improve their health for over 15 years. Craig graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and brings his left-brainy passion for research and systems thinking to his study of the human body, nutrition, and physiology. He is the co-author of the best selling book “Keto” and the newly-released “The Carnivore Cookbook," both of which were written with the goal of helping people address the root causes of disease and leverage their body's own biology to heal.
For more information about the keto and carnivore diets, and Craig and Maria Emmerich, visit: https://ketomaria.com/
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Heather Duer Cardin, DC, LAc: Resting the Gut to Heal the Body | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:38:48
Dr. Heather L. Cardin is a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, an expert in healing the gut, and so much more! Besides being a passionate practitioner, she is a mother of four young men and is active in her community, church, school, and in athletics. She received her Doctorate of Chiropractic from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City in 1997 and is currently practicing in Overland Park, Kansas at the Cardin Wellness Center, alongside her husband, Dr. Ralph S. Cardin. Together they have extended the scope of chiropractic treatment to all limbs of the tree. Her passion is promoting whole body wellness, gut health, and nutrition empowerment.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Elizabeth Stanley, PhD: Rewiring the Brain From Trauma | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:49:21
Elizabeth A. Stanley, PhD, is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University and the award-winning author of Paths to Peace and Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma. After her own healing journey from complex trauma resulting from undiagnosed Lyme disease, she created Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, now taught to thousands in high-stress environments. MMFT® research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and many other media outlets. A U.S. Army veteran, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She’s also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Matthew and Carol Newell:The Brain Can Heal | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:18:18
Matthew and Carol Newell are the Founders and Directors of The Family Hope Center, an organization near and dear to my heart. When I made the tough decision in 2014 to put my dreams for a community wellness center on hold to work as their medical director, it was because it was clear that they were doing something truly unique, and uniquely effective, in the world of brain health and recovery. I just knew I had to be a part of it.
Brains-not-working-optimally are all around us. One in every four children struggles with some type of neurological disorder--whether it's autism, dyslexia, anxiety, OCD, low tone, ADHD, cerebral palsy, or something else. Nearly one in six adults will suffer from neurological symptoms in their lifetime, too: consider not only Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, stroke, and multiple sclerosis, but also all of those "senior moments," not to mention the ubiquitous brain fog that we've all experienced from time to time.
So if you have a brain (check), care about wellness (check), and would like to better understand how the brain can be stimulated to grow, heal, and reorganize (well?)....then this episode is for you!
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Lori Haring, PT: Getting the Body Unstuck | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:34:35
In this episode, we return to the subject of trauma, and in particular, how trauma can get stored in the body...for years.
My dear friend Lori Haring is a physical therapist, a pelvic floor specialist, and the mother of five. She has advanced training in visceral and neural mobilization, as well as craniosacral and myofascial release. In this touching account, Lori details the story of how she lost her first love in a tragic incident. Her own journey has been informed by this tragic loss in an ongoing and cyclical way, and the tools she has come to master in her career have been instrumental in allowing her to finally release this trauma from her body. In our conversation she shares some of the most powerful tools with us.
Lori has such an incredible tale to tell: I know you will find it very moving and inspiring, as well as informative.
This talk that I did with Lori was recorded in 2020, and since then many twists and turns have come her way and Lori would like to update everyone with where she is today, and how those curveballs have shaped her own healing journey and her work with others dealing with chronic pain and movement disorders. She has written a personal letter to all of you, which you can read right here.
You can reach Lori here: 484-619-1137 (call or text) or at Loriharingpt@gmail.com
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Brent Davis, DC: Reprogramming the Mind | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:39:55
In this episode, we have another simple, natural, and potentially life-changing tool to explore: uncut flower essences.
When I first bumped into Dr. Brent Davis, DC, at a conference for Bioregulatory Medicine a few years back, I knew I had encountered a unique and important human. He was in the middle of describing to another conference attendee how the use of uncut flower essences can simply--almost instantaneously--reprogram years of old, stuck beliefs and traumas.
If you know me well, then you know he had me at "simply" and "instantaneously." We all carry around years of baggage that no longer serves us.
You know the kind of programming I mean. It's all bunk and can stick to us for years until we find a way to scrape it off for good. And uncut flower essences can do just that.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Anita Kopacz: Reclaiming Pleasure | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:35:19
Anita Kopacz calls herself a "pleasure alchemist," because her passion is helping people reclaim their innate ability to experience and enjoy pleasure after trauma. She is also an award-winning writer of two books, Finding Your Way and the recently published Shallow Waters. She received her Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley, her MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and is a certified Tantric coach. I can personally attest to her power as a coach, intuitive, and healer...not to mention her loving, compassionate, playful spirit, which I have been blessed to experience firsthand since early childhood.
Anita is also an activist. She was inspired to create the Zero F’s Given campaign because she is a thriving survivor of sexual abuse. She has utilized numerous modes of healing to reclaim her power, the strongest of which continues to be communing with circles of women.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Barbara Kleeb, MD: Setting Better Boundaries | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:34:50
In this episode, we explore the fine and often lost art of setting healthy boundaries.
Dr. Barbara Kleeb is a singer, songwriter, photographer, and all-around rock star who also happens to be an Obstetrician/Gynecologist. Over the past few years, she has dedicated all her free time to creating novel ways to teach people how to say "NO"--authentically, respectfully, and effectively. This is a passion project born of watching too many of her patients struggle with illnesses that have, as part of their root causes, the inability to honor an authentic "NO."
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Monifa Harris: The Power of Voice | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:32:31
On this episode, I am excited to introduce you to my friend, Monifa Harris.
Monifa is a trained operatic singer who is passionate about helping others understand the connection between their voice, their breath, and manifesting the changes they seek in their lives. In her work as a vocal coach, Monifa teaches clients how to use their breath to release creativity in every area of their lives so they can move forward with confidence, ease, and flow. Given that she has used her voice to perform on stages all over the world, it might be hard to believe that Monifa was once a shy and anxious child. And her story of finding and learning to use her own voice is all the more powerful as a result.
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Hannes Viljoen: Healing Ourselves Heals Our Team | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:38:01
Hannes Viljoen was a young father when the unimaginable struck. His beautiful firstborn suffered a stroke that left one side of her body completely paralyzed. As he and his wife Jana were grappling to make sense of this, their second son was born with Down Syndrome and such an extreme lack of muscular tone that he was functionally blind and unable to suckle. Just as they were beginning to find their way with the first two, a third child was born, suffering injuries in the birth canal which over time led to many developmental delays, including symptoms of autism.
It is hard for me to imagine the degree of loss and grief that would accompany such a series of catastrophes. In this powerful episode, you will hear how Hannes and Jana moved through and beyond their trauma in order to "fight for our children's lives." They have been on a mission to recover all three ever since, and with some amazing results. In addition to hearing where their kids are now, you will also hear about the non-profit Hannes and Jana started to support families of children with special needs, on each and every limb of their tree.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Hope Hendricks: Intention Matters | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:53:08
This week we meet Hope Hendricks, a long-time friend and deeply spiritual woman who shares her thoughts on intention, chakras, positivity, and the power of the mind.
During this talk you will learn:
~ where our energy centers are, ~ common signs and symptoms that these centers are closed, or "stuck," ~ and some simple tools for opening them to get your energy moving again.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Allison Lee, JD: Structures of Support | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:03:27
This week I want to introduce you to my dear friend, Allison Lee.
A thriving survivor of childhood abuse, postpartum depression, and a mass shooting, Allison explores the role of the "systems and structures" that we can create for ourselves in order to build resiliency, before or after life's challenges.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Christine Schaffner, ND: The Glymphatic System | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:34:15
Dr. Christine Schaffner is a board certified Naturopathic physician who graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about practicing medicine and creating healing spaces. As the founder of Immanence Health, a holistic health clinic in Seattle, she seeks to improve access, outcomes, and speed of recovery for patients struggling with chronic illness wherever they may be.
Here Dr. Schaffner goes deep in explaining the glymphatic and lymphatic systems and how we can clean those up when they are gummed up. She gives us some simple tools that we can all do to get our bodies flowing properly.
Please Note: This conversation was recorded in 2020.
To learn more about Dr. Christine Schaffner and her clinic, Immanence Health in Seattle, Washington, check out this website: https://www.immanencehealth.com
Chris Wark: On Gratitude & Healing Cancer | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:03:13
In 2020, I had the honor of hosting a conversation with one of my heroes, Chris Wark. Here is more about Chris...
After surgery at age 26 to remove a golf-ball sized tumor and a grim diagnosis of stage IIIc colon cancer, Chris opted out of the recommended chemotherapy and radiation and instead used a well-researched, holistic approach to achieve full healing. He has been vibrantly well, and cancer free, ever since.
His passion has been sharing his approach with others so that they have access to solid, evidence-based information that they can use to prevent, or help heal, cancer, and become vibrantly well.
Chris is sharing his entire step-wise, holistic approach to both preventing and reversing cancer in a free, 10-part series that will begin airing on February 21, 2023. If you want to check it out, just click right here: https://sn188.isrefer.com/go/go/KReihman
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Will Miller, MD: Invoking the Coyote | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:59:40
This week I want to introduce you to my long-time friend and mentor, Dr. Will Miller.
Will was the Chair of Family Medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital when I trained there as a resident. Indeed, he was one of the main reasons I chose that site for my residency. His intentionally crafted, relationship-based curriculum and cohort of hand-picked faculty called to me more strongly than any other in the country, and his clinical hand model spoke to me as loudly then as it does today.
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Mira Rubin: Core Connection | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:53:38
Mira Rubin was only 15 when she experienced a life-changing epiphany, the impact of which can still bring her to tears....and does, in this powerful episode.
Mira is a transformational coach, a visionary, an author, and host to multiple podcasts including Sustainability Now, The Core Connection, and The Broader Edge which she co-hosts. She is also the originator of the Core Connection process, a unique synthesis of multiple modalities including NLP, hypnosis, and applied kinesiology. I speak from personal experience when I say that Core Connection work with Mira precipitates often miraculous shifts of being, resulting in expansive new opportunities, a profound experience of freedom, and empowered stewardship of life.
Mira is passionate about connecting people to their core mission and purpose, and her own mission is to mainstream sustainable practices, globally.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Thomas Droge, LAc: Wei, Bu Wei | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:48:10
In this week's episode you will meet Thomas Droge, LAc, an acupuncturist, Qi healer, and dear friend who shares--among other things--a simple practice for getting clear on the next, best step.
The next, best step for what, you ask?
Answer: the next best step for anything that is making you feel overwhelmed.
If you've been feeling a little overwhelmed, listen to this talk. And be sure to bring your full presence, because Thomas goes deep.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Bobbi Vogel: Connecting With Your Peeps | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:35:47
In this week's episode, we meet Bobbi Vogel. Bobbi is a Medical Intuitive, Clairvoyant Healer, and Spirit Coach with a mission to connect humanity to faith, healing, life and purpose. Her clients have been diagnosed with everything from chronic pain and autoimmune diseases to cancer, and many have experienced profound healing and a new lease on life as they’ve worked with her to heal the emotional wounds that lie beneath their physical ailments.
As Bobbi shares in this episode, her own wounding has been formidable.
She endured losses from an early age, including the untimely loss of her father, and the abrupt and dramatic loss of her livelihood as well as her home at the peak of a successful career. Her rock-bottom hopelessness brought her to her knees...and ultimately was the catalyst that reconnected her to her faith, awakened her to what a total badass she is, and illuminated her life's purpose....all on the day before her planned suicide.
But here is the crazy part: knowing what she knows now, Bobbi is certain that she chose all that for herself, in service to her own transcendence.
If this mindset makes your head explode a little, then her talk is DEFINITELY for you. And if not, her talk is still worth a listen, because Bobbi shares a 5 minute technique that you can use daily to clear your energy, bring in more light and love, and begin to nourish and heal your own etheric body, which is where she believes all illness begins.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Jeannine Goode-Allen: Embracing the Artist Within | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:50:49
This week I want you to meet Jeannine Goode-Allen, who has spent the greater part of her life in an ever-deepening relationship with her own peep--the 12th century mystic, St. Hildegard of Bingen.
I didn't know about Jeannine's special connection to St. Hildegard until a delightful conversation we had on the beautiful island of Kauai in 2019. I'd heard St. Hildegard's name dropped by a handful of amazing women over the course of my life, which had always lent her an air of mystery and, frankly, coolness. But other than that, I knew very little about this incredibly strong, wise, creative, and playful woman who had survived to the ripe old age of 81...in the 12th century, no less!
In this week's episode you'll get a formal introduction. You will also hear how Jeannine has used her connection to this loving saint--and in particular to her music--to effect massive healing for herself.
To learn more about Jeannine Goode-Allen and the work that she does, please visit her website: https://doctorofthesoul.com
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Stasha Washburn: Embracing Your Cycle | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:44:08
This week you get to meet my friend, Stasha Washburn.
Stasha is many things. Dancer. Chef. Sword fighter. Speaker. Author. Skateboarder. And more. She is a football-loving, tai chi-practicing, all-around rock star of a human, and a self-proclaimed digital nomad who will go anywhere as long as there’s a tea kettle and WiFi.
I know. In 2019 I spent a year working closely with her as my business coach, and for half the year she was in Australia, the other half in California, and somewhere along the way she made an appearance onstage with Elizabeth Gilbert in Fiji (!?). Thank goodness for the Internet!
But perhaps more relevant to this week's conversation, Stasha Washburn is also The Period Coach--"the bloody kind, not the grammar kind." A survivor of severe endometriosis, Stasha has spent the past 20+ years learning how to heal herself, and now sharing that wisdom with women around the world in her Period Coaching Certification program. Her deep passion is to reconnect women to the power in their periods and to change the taboo around menstruation so that we can begin to study this complex, chronic, and poorly understood normal event that affects every woman on the planet through their entire reproductive years...and sometimes beyond.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Peig Abbott: Conversations With Self | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:35:29
This week I want you to meet my friend, the artist Peig Abbott.
Looking at her now, you'd never imagine that for a period of time Peig was bedridden with a fatigue so debilitating that just getting to the bathroom was considered enough for one day. Now she wields giant blow-torches and wrangles impossibly beautiful forms from stone, wood, and steel!?!
I'm not going to say too much more because her talk, like art, is best experienced firsthand to be appreciated and understood.
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Deborah Weed: Your True Worth | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:35:15
This week I am excited to introduce you to the effervescent speaker, Deborah Weed.
Deborah Weed is a creative whirlwind, coach, author, and motivational speaker. She is the founder of the Self-Worth Initiative, whose mission is to foster self-worth so that women will be true to themselves by being authentic, energized and joyous.
Deborah's raison d'etre came out of a personal crisis. While getting a MRA, a medical technician accidentally overdosed her on a dangerous heavy metal, gadolinium. You will hear all about her descent into a disabling mystery illness in her talk, but more importantly, you will hear how she healed herself...and what she did will no doubt surprise you.
Since then, Deborah has devoted her life to re-energizing the vital spark of women who have hit their own roadblocks. If you are looking for a little dose of self-love, self-worth, or inspiration this week, then this talk is for you!
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Danielle Pilarinos: Biomagnetism | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:03:50
This week I would like you to meet my friend, Danielle Pilarinos.
Danielle Pilarinos was a 26-year-old ultrasound tech when she came down with a mysterious and debilitating illness that baffled her doctors. After two hospitalizations with idiopathic rhabdomyolysis (that's doctor-speak for wide-spread breakdown of her muscles with no identifiable cause), she was told there was nothing else that could be done to end her suffering or halt the progression of her mysterious medical ailment. When she lost her ability to walk, she took matters into her own hands. I will leave the story of how she discovered Biomagnetism for her to tell, but the short version is today she is healthier than ever, with no residual signs or symptoms of whatever the heck that was...all thanks to Biomagnetism.
So, what is Biomagnetism? Good question. Until recently, I'd never heard of it, either. Using magnet pairs placed on specific points in the body, it balances the electromagnetic field, improving circulation, oxygen delivery, detoxification, and ultimately lowering inflammation...not to mention ridding the body of all those pesky chronic diseases that have chronic inflammation as a root cause.
To learn more about Danielle and Biomagnetism, please visit:
To get $30 off of the Starter Pack of magnets, use the code: HealingGrove
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Stephanie Hastings: Never Give Up | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:29:53
This week we hear from Stephanie Hastings, a friend of mine who has survived more than her fair share of tragedy. You are going to be in awe of what this woman endured...and even more amazed at how she recovered!
Stephanie was a young mother and business owner when a freak accident left her partially blind. The story of how she literally willed herself into action and eventual healing is not to be missed...nor is the discussion of the technique that ultimately restored her sight.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Thom Harrison: Walk Your Why | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:46:55
This week I would like to introduce you to my friend, Thom Harrison.
Many of us simply need a guide to help us know, love, and trust our own inner mentor. Thom is one of those guides. As a "life purpose guide," Thom works with earth-loving humans hindered by uncertainty, fears, or distraction, guiding them out of their own way and into the fulfilling, purposeful lives that call them.
I met Thom for the first time a few years back, and instantly knew he was someone I wanted to share with a wider audience. His gentle presence, down-to-earth approachability, and simple but profound approach to "walking his Why" made perfect sense to me.
After watching this conversation, I think you will agree that the simple tool Thom shares can easily become an inspiring, daily method for connecting with--and living from--the Source within yourself.
The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Maria Heart Song: The Gems of Our Brokenness | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:31:19
This week I would like to introduce you to my dear friend, Maria Heart Song.
Maria Heart Song is a song catcher, a sound healer, a soulful speaker, a yoga teacher and a Heart Connection coach. She is also the founder of Heart Song – a business empowering visionary women in creating lives that make their hearts sing, so that they can shine their light, embody their gifts and be the change they want to see in the world. After being burnt out twice and experiencing deep depression and suicidality, she found healing in music and the power of choice. It was at this point that she began to access healing, high vibrational songs. With her Heart Song Activations™ and Heart Song Healing Journeys, she inspires us to use intention, music, playfulness and our own voice as a way of healing and to reconnect with our soulful innate creative abilities and pure power, to become sovereign creators of our lives.
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Jayka Duncan: The Power of Surrender | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I invite you to a powerful conversation with my friend, Jayka Duncan.
Jayka was diagnosed with breast cancer in December, 2018. Not just breast cancer, actually; recurrent breast cancer. In a bold departure from her previous wrangling with a disease that affects one in eight women, this time she decided to follow her intuition, which guided her to an alternative approach. Despite some classic fear-mongering by her oncologist, she stood her ground and spent the next year and a half engaging with a variety of holistic practices, therapies, saunas, chelation, you name it. Despite all this, the cancer gained ground.That was when Jayka finally surrendered...
When most people hear that someone "surrended to cancer," they assume it means that cancer took them down. Not Jayka. For her, surrender became a practice of surrendering to the emotions that lay beneath the cancer. And it was through her daily surrender practice that Jayka was able to heal her stage 4 cancer in less than four months. She now spends the larger part of most days in a state of bliss, emanating unconditional love for herself and others. Her passion is helping others learn how to surrender in order to make room for their own healing.
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Karen De Wilde: The Power of Tzolkin Astrology | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I invite you to a fascinating conversation with my friend, Karen De Wilde.
Karen is a musician, change maker and transformational guide who works from both the head and the heart. Several years ago, while stuck in a job that was sapping her energy, Karen was led on a search for her own destiny and life path, and ultimately discovered the wisdom of the Mayan Calendar. She now uses this tool to help clients reconnect to their own wisdom, and to the opportunity for healing and living to their fullest potential.
In this interview Karen surprised me by offering to read my own Mayan chart, which took us on an interesting journey that was as revelatory as it was profound. It even took me into a pretty far out memory from my childhood that virtually had me climbing my own tree, and gazing down from the treetop at all the abundance that is to be found in life. I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I did!
Please note: This episode might be enjoyed more on YouTube because Karen shares her screen and lets us see Kristin's Mayan calendar.
If you are interested in contacting Karen to learn more, you can email her at: karen.kde.wilde.gmail.com
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Katie Rampen: What You (Don't) Know | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like you to meet my friend, Katie Rampen.
Katie is a a two-time breast cancer survivor and Breast Cancer Recovery Advocate dedicated to creating a thriving world through healthier living, one person at a time.
Katie is also a mother of two children, and when Katie was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she knew it was time to spring into action to reclaim her health and her life…not only for herself, but for her kids and family. She embarked on a quest to learn more deeply about cancer in particular, and health in general. On that quest she uncovered many eye-opening, little-known facts that made her realize that we can actually prevent cancer if we embrace that what we don’t know can hurt us.
Did you catch that? What we don't know CAN hurt us.
In an age of information overload and confusing messages, Katie is committed to offering women expertly curated information and practical strategies that can transform their worry and overwhelm into self-empowerment and solutions. She founded Kicking Breast Cancer with Katie to work side by side with women to overcome this disease and prevent it from recurring in the future, and this conversation is part of that mission.
Katie wants everyone to know her 7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You, which she teaches in her Breast Health Empowerment Circle online course, in her Breast Health Empowerment Membership support group and in private coaching.
Please note: This interview was done in 2020. There are a lot of new and exciting ways to work with Katie. If you would like to get Katie's "Seven Steps to a Healthier You" and learn more about the work that Katie is doing, you can visit her here: https://linktr.ee/Krampen
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Chloe Weber: Chinese Medicine + Hemp | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week's episode is with Chloe Weber, a dear friend who explores with me the reasons for using Chinese medicine to deal not only with acute crises, but ones that lie beneath the surface, waiting to emerge. You're going to love what she has to say about the tools she uses to help not only her patients but also her sweet son, Remy, who has a neurological issue that causes seizures. Her company, Radical Roots, was built after her search to combine high quality hemp with traditional Chinese herbs, resulted in excellent effects for Remy. Under her loving care, he has been able to move through life with less suffering, more joy, and the beautiful validation that comes from being truly seen and heard by a caring healer (in this case, his mother).
To learn more about Chloe Weber and Radical Roots, visit:
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Anja Korber: Your Inner Physician | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I can't wait for you to meet my friend, Anja Korber.
After playing in various European orchestras for several years, Anja Körber realized that the competitive and stressful life of a flautist was not for her. As a result, she changed direction, graduated as a primary school teacher in Germany and subsequently obtained the South African teaching diploma for High Schools. The core question during and beyond her years of teaching always remained the same: Why do some children thrive and excel and others do not? This question led her on a journey of continued learning in the fields of Brain Development, Primary Infant Reflex and Sensory Integration, Anatomy, and Craniosacral Therapy studies. Discovering there some of the root causes for many presumed “incurable” conditions such as ADHD, Autism, Developmental Delays, Anxiety and others only accelerated her search and empowered her on her own healing path. In her private practice in Somerset West, South Africa, Anja’s work incorporates a potent combination of Craniosacral Therapy, Somato Emotional Release, Myofascial Release and Oxygen Therapy.
You will want to be sure to give yourself 5 minutes of quiet to really dive into the tool that Anja shares during this episode, which is an experience of feeling your own cranial rhythms.
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Bill Rawls MD: The Timebomb Within | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am so excited to share a conversation that I had with Dr. Bill Rawls back in November of 2022. In this compelling conversation, you will learn about the role the microbiome and pathogens can play in chronic illness.
Bill Rawls MD, author of Unlocking Lyme: Myths,Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease and the Cellular Wellness Solution, is a 4th-generation physician who has dedicated his life to medicine. But when faced with a personal health crisis in his late forties with Lyme disease, everything changed. In his quest to regain his health, Dr. Rawls was confronted with the limitations of conventional medicine and knew he had to find his own path to restore wellness. For the past 15 years, he has extensively studied the science behind herbal therapies and new sustainable approaches for protecting health.
Dr. Rawls has generously offered our community a one-time use coupon code for his Vital Plan website. You can get 15% off when you use this code at checkout: HEALINGGROVE15
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Karen Atkins: Connecting to the Body's Intelligence | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Karen Atkins is a Brooklyn-born New Yorker turned Northern California girl. She spends her days practicing tai chi and qigong, writing and recording music, producing vitality lifestyle videos, creating educational alternative health programs, and taking walks in the foothills of Mt “Tam” as often as she can. But she wasn’t always the picture of health. In her early 20s, she felt so awful she couldn’t imagine ever being healthy and happy again. But 20 years and 40+ healing modalities later, she’s pretty much figured out the secret to a lifetime of energy, and now she is dedicated to sharing her hard-won knowledge with the world.
In this episode, there is a gem of a tool that helps us connect the left and right sides of the brain. It is pretty amazing. I hope that it helps you as much as it has helped me!
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Summer MacCool: The Essence of You (Is Love!) | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Summer MacCool is a conduit for universal consciousness, in service to the world and to your extraordinary life. Having moved through very dark times in her younger years, Summer was not even sure she wanted to live. It took a deeply loving relationship with a medicine man for Summer to finally embrace her worth and understand that we are all, at our core, LOVE. Now, transforming the formless into form is her magic, and Summer contributes to everyone who steps into her light.
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Helen Bucher: The Tender, Slender Person | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Helen Bucher's path has been a varied one, starting out as a nurse, then going to selling organic food, organic cosmetics, and ultimately becoming a Naturopathic Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach. As a Swiss Rejuvenation Specialist, Helen focuses on the "tender slender" woman, who faces very specific health challenges with her fine boned and highly sensitive body, as well as her mind and spirit. Helen’s healing and rejuvenation processes are rooted in purifying and harmonizing the outer as well as the inner Self. She created the Womangrace Rejuvenation Year as a lovely path of restoration, where she brings to bear the science of Aging and Rejuvenation with traditional Ayurvedic secrets, all with compassionate and crystal clear mentoring from a woman who truly walks her talk.
To learn more about Helen Bucher, you can visit her website: https://womangrace.ch *Please note that her website is in German.
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode One | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to share the first of what I hope will be many more interviews with a very special person who is also a doctor-in-training.
Meghan Tveit is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and then spent 6 weeks "bubbling" with my family during quarantine, during which time I developed a deep love for her bright, fun, compassionate, thoughtful, and curious approach to Pretty Much Everything. I know you are going to love not only Meghan, but what she has to share about her journey on the path to becoming a doctor.
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Sophie Wisbrun: Connecting To Your Purpose | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to introduce you to my sweet and inspiring friend, Sophie Wisbrun.
I met Sophie in 2018, at a conference for heart-centered business owners and visionaries. At the time, Sophie was consulting CEOs looking to build sustainability into their businesses. Her mission was, put simply, to save the planet...one powerful corporation at a time, by empowering leaders to employ what she called "beautiful leadership."
Even though Sophie's primary focus is business owners and CEOs of huge companies, her message about passion and finding your purpose is for everyone.
Susan Wells: You As the Acorn | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like you to meet my friend, Susan Wells.
Susan Wells, MA, is a writer and coach. The connective tissue in her professional life has been personal and collective health. Focused now on inner works, she uses depth writing and imagery to access the unconscious mind for transformative change. She holds degrees in literature and anthropology from Columbia University and Middlebury College, and studied theatre at Northwestern. After 10 years in the arts and 25 years in healthcare communications (neurology and oncology), she’s now the director of Evolution Basecamp and a founder of the Albero Institute for Research and Practice of Inner Works, which launches in 2024. In this episode we talk about how active engagement with the unconscious mind is so important for our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
To learn more about Susan Wells and her work with depth writing, visit:
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Linda Hartman: Tuning Forks | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Linda Hartman is a Certified Biofield Tuning Practitioner, who offers remote Biofield Tuning healing sessions by phone anywhere in the world! Biofield Tuning uses sound waves produced from tuning fork vibrations to relieve emotional and physical stress. Through vibration and frequency, Biofield Tuning works with your body’s electrical system to resolve distortion in your electromagnetic field, leaving you feeling calm, clear, and free of stress. The tuning forks locate areas of disharmony in the biofield that surrounds the body, creating a coherent vibration that helps the body to retune itself, restoring natural harmony. Habitual patterns of stress are released, the nervous system is reset, and corresponding physical, mental, and/or emotional symptoms are alleviated.
In this episode you will learn: ~ about the ‘electric body’ and the human biofield; ~ how trauma affects the biofield; ~ how a practitioner utilizes Biofield Tuning frequencies to release stress and trauma; ~ how you can utilize tuning forks for self-care to amplify your body’s voltage; ~ a group healing to destress and let go of anxiety and overwhelm. You can listen multiple times, whenever you need…. (the group healing is intended for everyone who ever listens to this podcast, even if you were not present on the live call!).
Visit Nurture Balance Heal to learn more about Biofield Tuning, and to request a remote Biofield Tuning session with Linda:
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Ari Whitten: Using Breath To Enhance Energy | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Ari Whitten.
Ari Whitten is a best-selling author and the creator of the Energy Blueprint system. A chronic fatigue and energy-optimization specialist with a world-wide following, Ari hosts the Energy Blueprint Podcast, bringing together leading experts in the field of fatigue and energy enhancement for the education of all. Many of my favorite holistic health thought leaders are folks that Ari has featured there, so I thought it appropriate to ask Ari to share his learnings with us, and he did not disappoint.
With a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology, two advanced certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and recent completion of coursework for a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Ari has plenty of book learning on the topic of energy enhancement. But he also comes by his knowledge the hard way: from lived experience. In his youth, Ari went down hard with Epstein Barr virus, developing the chronic fatigue that would give direction to and fuel passion for the rest of his career. He has spent the last 20 years obsessively researching the most effective and evidence-based approaches to energy enhancement, something which my patients with complex, chronic mystery illness need more than anyone--though everyone can benefit from the simple tools he shares.
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Rob Aptaker: Ritual and Ceremony For Life | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to introduce you to my dear friend, Rob Aptaker.
Rob is one of those humans who always inspires me to be a better human myself. His gentle manner, sincere interest, and unwavering listening always compel me to more presence and humility.
You might be surprised to learn that Rob's own healing journey began as a struggle with rage, a starving ego, and an inability to find his place and purpose in the world. Like many of us, he struggled for years to fit in.
Luckily, Rob's early fascination with and access to the natural world allowed him the space to cultivate powerful connections to himself and something larger. He began to study the many uses of wild plants and fungi, and to learn wilderness survival practices. Ultimately, it was this spiritual affinity with nature--and his deeply held feeling that the culture he was living in was missing a vital element of meaning and connection--that led him to seek out Native American medicine people and ceremonial leaders as teachers.
For the past 45 years, Rob has taken part in ceremonies and cultural activities with Native People and elders from all over Turtle Island (North America). Spiritual fasts and ceremonies, along with conventional therapy and Mens' Work, have helped him to gain a measure of balance, meaning and purpose in life.
If you would like to contact Rob Aptaker, you can email him at robaptaker@gmail.com *************************************************************************** The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
Danielle Pilarinos: Biomagnetism Part 2 - Demonstration and Protocols | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Our guest this week is Danielle Pilarinos. You might remember Danielle from a previous episode where she talked about Biomagnetism. It aired on April 17, 2023. So many people found that conversation helpful, so I asked Danielle to come back and share more of her Biomagnetism wisdom with us. This time she demonstrated some of her favorite protocols for dealing with trauma to the body, headaches and brain fog, lymphatic and liver support, and more.
So who is Danielle Pilarinos? Danielle was a 26-year-old ultrasound tech when she came down with a mysterious and debilitating illness that baffled her doctors. After two hospitalizations with idiopathic rhabdomyolysis (that's doctor-speak for wide-spread breakdown of her muscles with no identifiable cause), she was told there was nothing else that could be done to end her suffering or halt the progression of her mysterious medical ailment. When she lost her ability to walk, she took matters into her own hands, and today she is healthier than ever, with no residual signs or symptoms of whatever the heck that was...all thanks to Biomagnetism.
So, what is Biomagnetism? Good question. Using magnet pairs placed on specific points in the body, it balances the electromagnetic field, improving circulation, oxygen delivery, detoxification, and ultimately lowering inflammation...not to mention ridding the body of all those pesky chronic diseases that have chronic inflammation as a root cause.
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Anita Johnston, PhD: What Can Our Eating Tell Us About Ourselves? | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CEDS.
Anita is a psychologist, storyteller, certified eating disorders specialist, and author, and she has been working in the field of women’s issues, eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years. She is also the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an online platform similar to The Healing Grove that offers an interactive women’s circle, a book club or “workbook” for Eating in the Light of the Moon, and access to a supportive community of other women.
In Dr. Johnston's view, there might be a hundred different paths to an eating disorder, but one thing that all the women and girls with whom she has worked have in common is a deep intuitive knowing that they sadly learn, at some point along the way, must be silenced in order for them to fit in or succeed in our society. So they shut off their feelings, redirect them elsewhere, and pick up behaviors that distract them from what's going on inside. Thus, it is a reckoning with their own emotions rather than on food, calories, exercise, or numbers on a scale that brings them back into balance, and starts the healing process.
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Marisa Cerveris: Ballet to Broadway to Bethlehem | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to my dear friend Marisa Cerveris.
Being one of the last two dancers to be hand-picked by George Balanchine for The New York City Ballet, Marisa left home at age 14 to follow her dream of becoming a dancer. After a long career with the NYCB, she lived and danced in France and Spain and traveled the world, finally landing on Broadway before settling in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania in 2001. When she arrived in Bethlehem, she was unable to find the movement classes that she was looking for, so she decided to birth what she was needing, knowing that others might be needing it as well.
SteelCore Studio was born as a mentorship to help young dancers pursue their dreams. It has since evolved into a place where everyone can find a personalized, mindful and healthy workout, using ballet, movement and pilates. Marisa listens intently to each client, supporting them through their own journey into becoming a stronger and more well-balanced self.
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Suzy Griswold: HealingStrong - The Power of Community | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Suzy Griswold.
Suzy Griswold is a 13+ year Thyroid Cancer Thriver, and the Founder and President of HealingStrong. Upon her diagnosis, she took a different route than that of her 10 family members who had passed away from cancer previously. Suzy used a combination of the Gerson Protocol and grew closer to her Heavenly Father as part of her natural approach to healing. When others began asking for advice, and she learned of other naturally healed survivors, Suzy decided to gather them altogether and the vision for the very first HealingStrong conference in 2013 became a reality. A true grassroots movement. To date, 450 small community groups around the US, Canada, and 8 International countries have been a part of HealingStrong. HealingStrong empowers, inspires, motivates and equips group participants and members to live more whole and hope filled lives.
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode Two | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to share the second interview I had with Meghan Tveit, our favorite healer-in-training. I caught up with her at the beginning of an overnight call on trauma surgery....in her 86th hour of continuous work.
In our conversation, Meghan reflects deeply on the ups and downs of this beautiful, emotional and rather exhausting journey, and despite the lack of sleep, she is characteristically inspired and inspiring.
Meghan Tveit is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and then spent 6 weeks "bubbling" with my family during quarantine, during which time I developed a deep love for her bright, fun, compassionate, thoughtful, and curious approach to Pretty Much Everything. I know you are going to love not only Meghan, but what she has to share about her journey on the path to becoming a doctor.
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Jack Wolfson, DO, FACC: Natural Heart Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Dr. Jack Wolfson.
Dr. Wolfson is a board-certified cardiologist who uses nutrition, healthy lifestyle and evidence-based supplements to prevent and treat heart disease. Dr. Jack was trained as a conventional cardiologist, but he met Dr. Heather (who he just happened to marry), a DC who changed his paradigm from a sickness to wellness model.
After ten years performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac procedures in the biggest group in Arizona, Dr. Wolfson opened Natural Heart Doctor in 2012 to offer patients the ultimate in holistic cardiovascular care. People from all over the world seek out Dr. Wolfson’s consultation on heart health.
Dr. Wolfson is also an author. He wrote the Amazon best-seller, The Paleo Cardiologist, The Natural Way to Heart Health. You can get that book at the link below and you just have to pay shipping and handling!
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Anne Van de Water: True Self Mastery | The Healing Grove Podcast
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I am over the moon this week to introduce you to a new friend: Anne Van de Water.
About a decade ago, I found my way onto Anne Van de Water's mailing list. My sister, Bethany, had been on a retreat of some kind with Anne, and she suggested I follow her newsletter for regular blasts of high-vibe positivity and goofy, heart-centered, down-to-earth advice for spiritual seekers. That all sounded pretty good to me, and let me tell you: Anne Van de Water did not disappoint! I have followed her journey ever since, and when I started a podcast, I secretly hoped that Anne would accept my request out of the blue to sit with me for an interview. And it finally happened!
Anne is a life coach, a yoga teacher, a spiritual mentor, and the founder of True Self Mastery and Wellness, where she helps her clients to align with their true selves, and achieve their potential. Her mission aligns closely with mine, and can be summed up in her words: "We need you and we need your gifts."
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Jill Crista, ND: A Conversation About PANDAS and PANS | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like you to meet Dr. Jill Crista.
Dr. Crista is a pioneering naturopathic doctor, best-selling author, devoted educator, and creative innovator. Her superpower is to make complex medical concepts simple and digestible for the average person, and having been on the other side of her talks and teaching for the past few years, I can personally attest to this superpower.
Dr. Jill’s passion is to elevate the well-being of the planet by elevating the well-being of her inhabitants. Her books, memberships, and online courses support folks looking for concrete steps to conquer their own health challenges, and in that regard, I really feel we are kindred spirits.
Dr. Jill focuses on conditions that cause injury to the brain and nervous system, including mold, vector borne infections such as Lyme, and the debilitating autoimmunity that can develop from these exposures, called PANDAS and PANS.
She has now turned her efforts to supporting children and teens struggling with PANDAS and PANS. As a mother of children affected by PANS, she has combined the knowledge gained through her clinical and personal experience into an indispensable book titled A Light In The Dark for PANDAS and PANS.
If you would like to learn more about Dr. Jill Crista, please visit: https://drcrista.com
Dr. Jill has generously offered to give my community 15% off any of her courses. Access your discount with the code, healinggrove.
If you are interested in the medication compatibility chart that Dr. Crista mentions during this talk, you can get that here: https://drcrista.com/med-compatibility/
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Dr. Roger McFillin: The Truth About Mental Health in the World Today | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week you get to meet Dr. Roger McFillin.
Dr. McFillin is a clinical psychologist, writer, speaker and podcast host, and a friend of mine. He is also an outspoken critic of the psychiatric diagnostic system, prescription drug culture, harmful treatments, misrepresentation of science in healthcare & pop culture beliefs about mental health that undermine resilience & coping...to name a few of his passions! As a specialist in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for the treatment of post-traumatic stress, eating disorders & those struggling with anxiety, mood and chronic suicidal behaviors, he seemed a perfect person to have as a guest this week, given the sky-rocketing rates of mental health diagnoses.
You can find out more about Dr. McFillin and find his podcast, Radically Genuine, here: https://www.drmcfillin.com
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Ria Swift: Emotional Stress Release - Learning To Let Go and Open Up | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like you to meet one of my dear friends, Ria Swift.
Ria is an energy medicine practitioner and intuitive seer who uses expressive arts, frequency medicine, family & system constellations, biomagnetism, and more. Using an ever-evolving toolbox of modalities, she has been helping folks heal from past trauma and wounds for decades. And having benefited personally from her work over the years, I can attest to the power of her approach, and am delighted to introduce her to you!
Amazingly, Ria started out as a dancer, not a healer. Her introduction to this field came from having had cancer three times in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Through her own illnesses, Ria became obsessed with wanting to understand what had caused cancer to grow in her body, hoping to find a solution that would reduce the changes of a repeat performance.
So what does Ria's work look like? Well, in a nutshell, Ria heals with her mind. As a 'seer,' she 'reads' what you are holding and then moves it into a stable, healthy position so that self-healing can take over. As Ria says, "It's quantum physics, at its best!"
If you would like to get in touch with Ria Swift, you can do so by calling or texting her at: 484-767-4890
You can also reach her through email at: riaswift@gmail.com
Ria can also be found on Facebook. You can find her here: https://www.facebook.com/RiaSwiftHealing/
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode Three | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Our favorite third-year medical student, Meghan Tveit, has joined us yet again to give us another glimpse into her medical training. This time we caught up right after she finished her general surgery rotation.
Meghan is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and then spent 6 weeks "bubbling" with my family during quarantine, during which time I developed a deep love for her bright, fun, compassionate, thoughtful, and curious approach to Pretty Much Everything. I know you are going to love not only Meghan, but what she has to share about her journey on the path to becoming a doctor.
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Sheetal Contractor: The Healing Power of Yoga | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to introduce you to my friend, Sheetal Contractor.
Sheetal is a PA-licensed massage therapist, Yoga Alliance certified 500-hr yoga teacher/trainer (E-RYT500), and Wellness Coach. After being a corporate professional for 15 years, in the summer of 2006, she took a leap of faith and left the corporate world to pursue her passion – sharing mind/body wellness through yoga and bodywork.
Sheetal’s yoga background includes training from diverse styles allowing her to create her own approach that focuses on self-discovery, empowerment and self-healing. Her bodywork centers on gentle forms of massage therapy and energy medicine, including craniosacral therapy (CST), manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), fascial unwinding, marma therapy, and chakra balancing. She is also an author, speaker, and offers guided meditations and yoga content on her YouTube channel, Empowered Wellness with Sheetal.
Whether it’s through yoga, massage, or wellness coaching, Sheetal’s intention is to always provide a therapeutic experience that supports the individual’s unique growth and healing process. As she strives each day to live from a place of Self-awareness and Self-love, she hopes to inspire and help others to do the same.
There are many ways to learn more from Sheetal below.
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Scott Fox: Coaching for the Whole Athlete | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited for you to meet Coach Scott Fox.
Scott Fox is a former D1 baseball player and he went down hard with Lyme disease, an illness that has changed the way he sees the world...and coaches his athletes. He takes a whole-person approach to performance. He is not just looking at increasing speed, strength, and all the usual physical indices of athletic performance: he also has coaching tools for the emotional, mental, and conceptual pieces that can become real obstacles to performance if not addressed--and in fact, are often the biggest obstacles that prevent peak performance.
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Dr. Sarah Myhill: The Upper Fermenting Gut | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week’s guest is Dr. Sarah Myhill, a Western medicine doctor turned Naturopathic physician.
Sarah Myhill is not only a physician with a wealth of knowledge about gut health, but she also has a special interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis, and her life’s mission has been to help people find the reason for their symptoms and arm them with safe and affordable treatments that get results. She says it perfectly herself, “I like to give people the Rules of the Game and the Tools of the Trade to restore fitness and vitality”.
Dr. Myhill is also the author of several award-winning books, including a book that she recently co-authored with Craig Robinson, "Ecological Medicine: The Antidote to Big Pharma and Fast Food", where she shares many tools that almost anybody can use to reach their full health potential.
I met Sarah Myhill in September when I attended a Klinghardt conference in London. As soon as I heard Dr. Myhill talk, I knew that my peeps needed to hear more from her, and I was thrilled when she happily agreed. This was a delightful conversation that might just be a life-changer if you are struggling with your gut or overall health. This was such a fun conversation and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did!
Dr. Myhill runs weekend workshops where you can learn the “Rules of the Game” and the “Tools of the Trade” and gain confidence in your healing journey. You can learn more about those here: https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Myhill_Workshop_Weekends
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Cristina Maria RojasFernandez: Indigenous Plant Medicine | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week’s guest is a dear friend and kindred spirit, Cristina Maria RojasFernandez.
Licensed in New York as a Clinical Social Worker, she has been called to be a bridge between worlds of Western clinical therapy and plant medicine. Her passion is helping humans connect to their authentic selves through traditional indigenous medicine ceremonies, including Ayahuasca. In 2017, I had the good fortune not only to get to know Cristina Maria, but to experience her facilitation of an Ayahuasca ceremony at my wellness center, Trout Creek Healing Collective. That makes this conversation so special to me, and I am so happy to share this very special person with you.
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode Four | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Meghan Tveit has returned to check in with us after spending 6 weeks in a psychiatry rotation. This conversation gets a bit tense as Meghan tells about some very extreme cases that she experienced during this rotation. No worries. No names or personal information have been shared, but I want you to know that Meghan does talk about one case in particular that is more disturbing than others. I am so glad that Meghan could share this with us, but I want you to be prepared, and you will not want children to be present when listening to this episode.
Meghan is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and then spent 6 weeks "bubbling" with my family during quarantine, during which time I developed a deep love for her bright, fun, compassionate, thoughtful, and curious approach to Pretty Much Everything. I know by now you are likely growing to love not only Meghan, but what she has to share about her journey on the path to becoming a doctor as well.
If you haven't seen the first three episodes of our Healer's Journey saga, you can review them later: they provide an intimate glimpse into the world of a Real, Live Medical Student, on her path to becoming a physician.
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Maria Heart Song: Activating Your Light | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I interviewed my dear friend, Maria Heart Song. Maria is a clarity coach, intuitive healer, and Heart Song Alchemist. Music has always been the love of her life, and for more than 20 years she has been creating heart song activations and exploring the healing and creative power of the voice. As she shares in this conversation, Maria has not always been confident enough to share her voice with the world, but that has changed!
Maria is now ready to share the power of her voice with you! One way that she is doing that is through the release of her new song Lighthouse. In this episode you will hear her talk about this very special song and how you can hear it when it first releases at the Winter Solstice.
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Erika Nolan: Healing Through Food | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am so excited for you to meet my new friend Erika Nolan. I have been following Erika for awhile now on Instagram, and her work is right in alignment with what I do, so this conversation was very special to me. Many of you know that I spent much of my summer in the garden, growing and harvesting lots of produce and herbs, and Erika has inspired me the whole way. I can't wait for you to hear this conversation and get to know Erika. Here is a little bit about her and how she came to do the work that she is so passionate about...
Erika is a licensed landscape horticulturist and the founder of INSTAR, her holistic health and homestead consulting and education business. After spending 6 months volunteering in the Ecuadorian Amazon and then pursuing music in New York City, she got the devastating news that her mother, and best friend, had a brain tumor, soon followed by breast cancer. Erika then decided to return home to New Orleans where she ultimately made growing organic foods and connecting with nature her passion. Now her mission is to not only grow food organically and reconnect with nature, but to coach other people how to do it too.
To learn more about Erika Nolan and the work that she does, you can visit: https://instargardens.com
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Dr. Kim Bruno: Testing for Patients With Chronic Illness | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am very excited for you to meet Dr. Kim Bruno, DC, CCN. I met Kim through Vibrant Wellness, a lab that I use often with my own patients. She has given me a lot of guidance and teaching about Vibrant Wellness testing and how to navigate their many offerings.
Dr. Kim Bruno has dedicated her career to working to find root causes of patients’ medical issues as well as promoting a prevention model of health care. Dr. Bruno is currently the Clinical Director of Outreach and Senior Medical Science Liaison for Vibrant Wellness Lab. She is working to educate providers like me on the use of functional medicine labs for treating complex patients. Prior to working at Vibrant, she owned a private practice for 17 years, and worked together with a variety of health care providers in multidisciplinary practices and was functional medical director at the largest immunology clinic in Colorado. Dr. Bruno is a Colorado native who enjoys hiking and paddle boarding, and she finds the most joy in spending time outside in nature with her husband and two daughters.
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Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD: Lyme Disease and Autoimmune Encephalitis | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, M.D. is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. Dr. Kinderlehrer co-founded The New England Center for Holistic Medicine in Newbury MA, and has taught extensively, including practitioner training courses at The Omega Institute, The National Institute of Behavioral Medicine, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. He created and organized the Lyme Fundamentals course which is presented annually at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society conferences. He is the author of several articles in medical journals, the Lyme Times and Psychology Today. His integrated medical practice in Denver, CO focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne illness. Dr. Kinderlehrer is the author of Recovery From Lyme Disease: The Integrative Medicine Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tick-Borne Illness, which was released in March, 2021.
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode Five | The Healing Grove Podcast
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Meghan Tveit, MS 3, is back, this time to tell us all about her rotations in OB/GYN and anesthesia, but if you are not familiar with this very special frequent guest, you can read about her here...
Meghan Tveit is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. A member of the 2020 graduating class of Harvard and my eldest son's girlfriend, Meghan appeared on my doorstep when the world shut down and then spent 6 weeks "bubbling" with us during quarantine, during which time I developed a deep love for her bright, fun, compassionate, thoughtful, and curious approach to Pretty Much Everything. I know by now you are likely growing to love not only Meghan, but what she has to share about her journey on the path to becoming a doctor as well. This episode is particularly special, but you will have to listen to find out why.
In this conversation, you will witness Meghan LIGHT UP as she tells us about the life-changing decision that she has made in her journey towards becoming a doctor. If you've ever wondered how medical students sort themselves into the various and diverse specialties--or what it looks like when a lightning bolt hits them, and they suddenly know exactly where they are meant to serve, as doctors--then you will want to listen to this episode!
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Cassandra Stahl: How your Financial Health Affects Your Overall Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Cassandra Stahl....
Cassandra is a wealth management specialist. Maybe it's my bias about "money people," but I still find it fascinating that someone with the kind of deep knowledge of how money works in the world can also be so incredibly well-rounded. In addition to serving as a Partner and Private Wealth Advisor at Northwestern Mutual's Legacy Wealth Planning Group, Cassandra is married, raising two small children, and an avid hiker, runner, and beekeeper. She has been following people like Joe Dispenza and leaning into opportunities for personal and spiritual growth for as long as she's been on the planet. And she is passionate about her job, which she describes as "guiding individuals and small business owners to dream courageously, and to live with purpose."
You can probably see why I knew I had to work with her about 2 minutes into our first meeting. As the friend who introduced us said, "Cassandra speaks the language of money as energy....and then she brings the spreadsheets."
You may be wondering what a conversation about money has to do with your health. As it turns out, it has quite a lot to do with it. And in this talk, Cassandra Stahl explains why.
If you would like to connect with Cassandra Stahl, you can email her here: cassandra.stahl@nm.com
You can also reach her by phone here: 908-617-0556
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Karen Mayo: Nutrition for Brain Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like to introduce you to Karen Mayo, an Integrative Nutritionist who is currently working out of the Amen Clinics in New York. She’s the award-winning international best-selling author of Mindful Eating: Thirty Days to A Whole New You. She has also made appearances on the Dr. Oz Show, The Jack Canfield Show, and on the TEDx stage.
Karen has made it her life's work to teach people that how they eat matters. After seeing an almost miraculous change in her nephew when feeding him a nutritious diet, she knew her calling in life and has been pursuing it ever since.
When I met Karen in the waiting room of the Amen Clinics, I knew that we were kindred spirits, because we both believe nutrition to be a key factor in overall health. Food can be a hard topic for some of us to tackle, but Karen does it in a way that makes the complexities of nutrition accessible to us all, by zeroing in on the essentials and offering practical suggestions you can immediately implement into your daily routine. As Karen likes to say, “It’s not about dieting, it’s about living!”
You can learn more about Karen and her free 30-day challenge here:
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Alexis Chesney, MS, ND, LAc: Lyme Disease Prevention | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I want to introduce you to Dr. Alexis Chesney, who I met at the most recent ILADS conference, last October. She was standing next to a stack of her small, pocket-sized books at the Lyme author's table, and I was instantly drawn to both her colorful, well-designed book and her quiet, gentle nature. Within two minutes of speaking with her, I knew I needed to get her on the podcast to share her passion with us, which is the prevention of Lyme disease.
Whenever I am sitting with someone who has been suffering for years with un-diagnosed or under-treated Lyme, I often find myself wishing we could have worked together earlier, before this infection had the chance to negatively impact the immune, endocrine, musculoskeletal, and nervous system. And while it is true that the earlier you catch and begin to address a new infection, the easier it can be to cure it, even this fantasy loses sight of the most important intervention we can make, which is learning to prevent Lyme disease, in the first place.
With spring right around the corner, there is no better time to start planning our prevention strategies. I hope this episode gets you thinking in that direction, so you never need my services!
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Dr. Ben Rall: We Are Designed To Heal | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I would like you to meet my new friend and colleague, Dr. BenRall.
As a chiropractor, Dr. Rall subscribes to the philosophy that our bodies are self-healing...as long as we avoid the obstacles that can get in their way.
As an author, lecturer,and host of the 5-star rated podcast, Designed to Heal, he is passionate about empowering listeners with a message of hope and self-efficacy.
And as a doctor and owner of his own clinic in Orlando, Florida, Dr. Rall bears witness on a daily basis to what can happen when patients embrace the notion that their bodies are designed to heal, and take the necessary steps to true wellness.
Dr. Rall is not the first chiropractor that I've interviewed, but that should come as no surprise. Chiropractic medicine espouses many things that I believe deeply in myself, such as the importance of good nutrition, quality sleep, meaningful relationships, and excellent posture and daily movement. But it occurred to me as I was preparing for this conversation that I've never had a chiropractor on the podcast to discuss chiropractic medicine, specifically.
I hope that you enjoy our conversation as much as I enjoyed having it!
You can learn more about Dr. Ben Rall and the Designed to Heal podcast here: www.drbenrall.com
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Arleen Ehritz: Colon Hydrotherapy | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am delighted to introduce you to my friend, Arleen Ehritz.
Arleen is a colon hydrotherapy practitioner. If your brain is having a hard time imagining what those three words mean, then you've probably never experienced the many benefits of irrigating your butt with warm, purified, gravity-fed water, so you don't know what you're missing. If that's you, then read on! This talk is definitely for you....
And don't worry, you're not alone! Arleen was in the same boat when her young son was diagnosed with Autism. She had never heard of colon hydrotherapy, and might never have found her way to this incredibly useful tool for health and healing except for the fact that when she tried it for her son, things started to change.
And not just change. Over a surprisingly short period of time, he recovered.
From Autism.
Now, I know how controversial it is to say the words "recover" and "autism" in the same breath. Believe me: I know. But when you see recoveries happen yourself, as I have, you know it's possible.
It was shocking for Arleen, though. She was blown away! In fact, she was so inspired that she felt compelled to share this tool with the world. So she got trained and certified, opened her own practice, and has run a successful colon hydrotherapy practice ever since. She even became an instructor through the International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy.
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Ruth Kriz: Understanding the Body's pH for Overall Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
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I want to introduce you to someone who has literally changed my life in the last few years. Moreover, she has helped me to do the same for many of my patients. Her name is Ruth Kriz.
Ruth is a nurse practitioner who has identified a group of common genetic variations that help explain why some patients develop chronic infections due to biofilms and others don't. These and several other genetic variations are consistently found in chronic UTI and interstitial cystitis patients but have a broader application to other chronic infections.
Although she has closed her medical practice, she currently consults with practitioners who are interested in learning what testing and supplements are needed to help these patients successfully eliminate these infections and prevent future infections from becoming chronic.
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Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD: Autonomic Response Testing | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:07:32
In honor of celebrating the release of our 75th episode of the Healing Grove Podcast, I have a very special guest to introduce to you: Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD.
Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years.
If you've been in my circle for any length of time, or read my e-book, then you know that Dr. Klinghardt was one of my earliest teachers in the Lyme and complex mystery illness space. The first Lyme doctor I connected with on my own healing journey, I've been soaking up his pearls of wisdom regularly since 2011.
Dr. Klinghardt is a physician of incredible brilliance, scientific rigor, compassion, and intuition: a rare combination in today's doctors. His annual seminars, which I attended regularly before the pandemic, brought together the most cutting-edge researchers and practitioners from the fields of Lyme, autism, mold injury, PANS and PANDAS, chemical sensitivity, autoimmunity, parasitology, and beyond. Looking back over my scribbled notes from 2012 onward, I can see evidence of my mind being blown right and left--and the laying down of stepping stones of an emerging knowledge base about how to approach, treat, and heal from the root causes of syndromes thought by allopathic medicine to be incurable. I knew from the very first conference that this was the teacher who would bring clarity to my journey, and show me a path forward.
You can learn more about Dr. Klinghardt and his work by checking out the Sophia Health Institute's website here: https://www.sophiahi.com
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Meghan Tveit, MS3: The Healer's Journey, Episode Six | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am excited to share the sixth interview I had with Meghan Tveit, MS3. In contrast to previous episodes, some of which involved Meg looking like she would rather have been horizontal, this time we caught up with her during a 4 week elective rotation, as she studies for her Step 2 Medical Exam. In our conversation, Meghan reflected back on her 8-week rotation in internal medicine, and also gave us a synopsis of what she is hoping that her fourth year as a medical student will look like.
It has been awhile since we have heard from Meghan, so in case you need a reminder of who she is, and what she is up to, read on!
Meghan Tveit is a third year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Harvard in 2020, and spent almost two months living with our family during the lock-down (probably because my family includes her boyfriend, Mahlon). During that time, I really got to know Meg, and found her intelligence, compassion, empathy, curiosity, and authenticity an inspiration, and hope for the future of medicine. I've been incredibly grateful for Meg's willingness to share her journey through medical education in these little installments, as they provide glimpses into the usually hidden journey of becoming a doctor.
If you would like to follow Meghan on Instagram, you can find her here: @meg.med.motion
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Irma Jennings: All About Bone Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I am thrilled to introduce you to my new friend, Irma Jennings.
Irma is a Holistic Bone Coach, but I like to think of her as a "bone whisperer," because she really understands the deepest desires of our skeletal scaffold. Moreover, she is really, really expert at explaining things in ways that are simple, clear, and medically accurate.
With over 13 years of specialized experience in bone health, she provides comprehensive, evidence-based education to her coaching clients so that they are well-informed about osteoporosis management and prevention. She also has a vast network of practitioners with whom she works--people she trusts to "do bones right," as it were--and literally travels to visits with her clients to their bone doctors, where she offers support and advocacy during medical consultations.
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Beth Shirley, RPh, CCN: The Health Benefits of Nitric Oxide | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:51:16
This week I want you to meet my friend and colleague, Beth Shirley. Beth is a pharmacist and certified clinical nutritionist who has been a pioneer in the field of Integrative Pharmacy. Through her work in this field, she has developed an in-depth knowledge of the use of nitric oxide. It turns out that this molecule is quite beneficial to everyone’s health and in this talk Beth gives us a full run-down on how it works and who should be using it.
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Emily Kostelnik, PhD: Mindfully Managing Vestibular Disorders | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I want you to meet my friend, Dr. Emily Kostelnik, the Vestibular Psychologist. Vestibular disorders are very debilitating and I see them all too often in my practice. I found Emily on Instagram several months ago and realized very quickly that I needed to have her come talk to my audience. If you are suffering from chronic dizziness or balance issues, my hope is that you will be encouraged and empowered listening to Emily share her story of healing.
Here is more about Emily...She is a Clinical Health Psychologist specializing in chronic dizziness and related disorders and also lives with multiple vestibular diagnoses. Over time, she has learned about the connection between histamine intolerance, mast cell activation syndrome and chronic illness. She currently works from this lens, both in her personal journey and how she works with clients. She is the founder of Rooted Behavioral Education which provides self-paced virtual behavioral health courses specific to chronic dizziness, provides one-on-one educational meetings to vestibular warriors worldwide, and oversees vestibular mindset coaches. She is also the founder of a private psychology practice called The Vestibular Psychologist where she provides virtual, individual, and group therapy to those with chronic dizziness living in US states where she is licensed. She is passionate about conducting research, supporting clients, and providing holistic education to the vestibular community. Her mission is to teach vestibular warriors that treatment requires a whole body approach and that there are always new treatment options to consider.
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Lisa Markovits: You Deserve A Healthy Relationship | The Healing Grove Podcast
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This week I want to introduce you to my friend, Lisa Markovits.
Lisa is a singer, musician, and activist, who has made it her life's mission to help women who have suffered through trauma and unhealthy relationships to journey back to self-love through art and self-expression. She is doing that through her company Own It Baby! and her newly launched course From Caterpillar to Butterfly: Shepherding Women from Trauma to Joy.
You can also follow Lisa on Facebook: @OIBbyLisa (Own It Baby by Lisa Markovits) and Instagram: @lisamarkovits
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Cathleen King, DPT: Cultivating Okay-ness | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:47:48
Over the past several years, a number of programs for retraining the limbic portion of the brain have popped up. I've leaned into a few of them, including the Gupta Program, DNRS with Annie Hopper, and my friend, Liz Stanley's MMFT. All of these are great programs, and have helped countless people regain their health using tools that fall under the category of "limbic retraining."
Recently, I came across a new kid on the block: Primal Trust, created by Cathleen King, DPT--aka, "Dr. Cat."
Even though I felt like I already had a pretty full tool box to direct my patients to, I decided to lean into her world a little. What I discovered is that for many of the patients I see--some of whom have become increasingly sensitive to a growing list of foods, chemicals, and environmental exposures, including mold--Primal Trust offers another beautiful solution.
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Nicole DeBoom: How I Overcame My Allergy to Exercise | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:52:26
This week I brought in my longtime friend fellow Yale Swammer, Nicole DeBoom. You may remember Nicole because she interviewed me for the trailer of the Healing Grove Podcast way back when. Well, she is back to interview me again because, at the time of this conversation, I was about to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim through the Greek Cyclades islands with some swim buddies from college. This opportunity came to me seemingly out of the blue last fall, and though I can't say that I initially jumped at the idea of getting back into swimming training after 31 years out of the water, the long and the short of it is that I ultimately decided that I wanted to be the person who says YES! to adventures that thrill yet terrify, and so here I am.
If you'd asked me ten years ago whether I thought I'd ever be strong enough to swim 5000 meters a day in the open water for 7 days straight, I would have said "Not a chance." Back then I was still crawling out of the hole that was Lyme disease for me: 30 lbs down, barely able to pick up my one-year-old, and frankly a shadow of my former self. So it just goes to show what can happen when you get to the other side of your Lyme Healing Journey. And in honor of Lyme Awareness Month, I have decided to take a deep dive into the learnings of this swim adventure with me.
If you would like to follow along on my adventures in Greece and beyond, you can follow me on Instagram. You can do that here:
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Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD: Welcome to the Sophia Health Institute | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:54:51
Dr. Klinghardt has been a leader in the field of tick-borne infections, autoimmunity, and complex medically mysterious illnesses for over 30 years.
Dr. Klinghardt is a physician of incredible brilliance, scientific rigor, compassion, and intuition: a rare combination in today's doctors. His annual seminars, which I attended regularly before the pandemic, brought together the most cutting-edge researchers and practitioners from the fields of Lyme, autism, mold injury, PANS and PANDAS, chemical sensitivity, autoimmunity, parasitology, and beyond. Looking back over my scribbled notes from 2012 onward, I can see evidence of my mind being blown right and left--and the laying down of stepping stones of an emerging knowledge base about how to approach, treat, and heal syndromes thought by allopathic medicine to be incurable. I knew from the very first conference that this was the teacher who would bring clarity to my journey, and show me a path forward.
You can learn more about Dr. Klinghardt and his work by checking out the Sophia Health Institute's website here: https://www.sophiahi.com
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Chloe Weber, DACM, LAc: Chinese Medicine and Women's Health | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:55:03
This week's talk is with Chloe Weber, a dear friend who I met several years ago in my work as the Medical Director of the Family Hope Center. Our meeting was not coincidental. Chloe's son, Remy, suffers from an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes seizures, and she had sought us out to explore unconventional options to heal her child's brain.
Remy, like so many of the kids I see at the FHC, chose his mom wisely. He chose a mom who would go to bat for him, doggedly searching for the root causes of his seizures and how to optimize his brain. When I met Chloe the first time, I instantly knew she was a Warrior Mom, determined to make a difference for her child, and eventually, for other kids and moms. She has done this over and over, starting with founding her company Radical Roots based on a tincture combining Chinese herbs and CBD, and most recently, with a new company, supporting women. Her exciting new offerings will be coming soon, and in this episode, I invited Chloe to share its roots with us.
If you would like to connect with Chloe and learn more about her, you can do that at https://radicalremedy.org
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Meghan Tveit, MS4: The Healer's Journey, Episode Seven | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:47:48
This week I am excited to share the seventh interview I had with Meghan Tveit, who is now a fourth year medical student (MS4). In this conversation she tells us about her family medicine rotation, her last rotation as a third year student. She also gives us a glimpse into what her fourth year will look like.
It has been awhile since we have heard from Meghan, so in case you need a reminder of who she is, and what she is up to, read on!
Meghan Tveit is now a fourth year medical student at George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Harvard in 2020, and spent almost two months living with our family during the lock-down (probably because my family includes her boyfriend, Mahlon). During that time, I really got to know Meg, and found her intelligence, compassion, empathy, curiosity, and authenticity an inspiration, and hope for the future of medicine. I've been incredibly grateful for Meg's willingness to share her journey through medical education in these little installments, as they provide glimpses into the usually hidden journey of becoming a doctor.
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Stephen Davis: The NIKKI Device - Healing With Frequencies | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:47:17
This week I would like to introduce you to Stephen Davis.
For years Stephen Davis tried everything to find help for his daughter and her two children. Huge amounts of time and money did little to bring results. So he began his own search, which ultimately led him to frequencies, the topic of our episode today.
As an innovator and entrepreneur, he started his journey with science. He discovered the connection between good health and the fact that the cells in our bodies communicate through frequencies. Finally Stephen found a path to recovery for his daughter and grandchildren who have now been symptom-free for over five years.
Today, FREmedica is helping Lyme sufferers around the world find relief through the FREmedica Lyme Frequency Support Program. Stephen is grateful for the opportunity to share his story with everyone and especially those struggling with Lyme disease.
While traditional treatment can struggle to overcome a wide range of Lyme symptoms, FREmedica technology optimizes the body’s ability to heal itself. The wearable FREmedica NIKKI in combination with Lyme-specific frequency sets is designed to restore cell communication disrupted by the disease; enabling the immune system to target symptoms and clear the path to better health.
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Caroline Alan: Minerals - Depletion and Supplementation | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:03:18
This week I am super excited to introduce you to my new friend, Caroline Alan.
Caroline Alan is the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals, but like many of my guests on the podcast, she came to her current focus on health and wellness through a debilitating mystery illness that shook her on all limbs of her tree.
Coming from a career in the corporate world, Caroline found herself struggling physically, mentally and energetically. During her circuitous journey back to health, Caroline encountered plant-based minerals and their unique ability to support a return to natural balance in the body. And they changed her life.
Once well (which took about 9 months), Caroline delved into research on minerals: why they are important to human physiology, how they work in the body, why we are all so deficient, and how to replenish them effectively. Her journey took her deep into microbiology, molecular biology, cellular biology, agricultural soil science, the study of plant decomposition and more...and sparked a commitment to share what she had learned with the world. She is now on a mission, devoted to educating people about the benefits of mineral replenishment and the specific efficacy of plant-based humic and fulvic substances.
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Neil Nathan, MD: The Sensitive Patient | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:08:32
This week I am delighted for you to meet one of my mentors, Dr. Neil Nathan.
Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for over 50 years, and has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management and is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomate of ISEAI. He is also the author of several books, including Healing is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses and Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness. In other words, for the past several decades, Dr. Nathan has been working tirelessly to bring an awareness that mold toxicity is a major contributing factor for patients with chronic illness.
His newest book, The Sensitive Patient’s Healing Guide, Top Experts Offer New Insights and Treatments for Environmental Toxins, Lyme Disease, and EMFs, was released just this past January, and it has already become one of my favorite (and most dog-eared) recommended books for my sickest and most chemically-sensitive patients.
You can check out all that Neil Nathan, MD has to offer, including his new book, The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide, right here: https://neilnathanmd.com
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Kat Romett: Healing Through the Feet | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:38:14
This week I am delighted for you to meet my new friend, Kat Romett.
Kat Romett is a Licensed Reflexology Practitioner, musician, & mother of 2 boys. She and her family currently reside in Montgomery County, PA. Through her journey with parenting a child with special needs, Kat has learned the importance of self care & holistic health. She sees the benefits reflexology has in creating peace in the body, which in turn creates peace in stress-filled environments. Kat has a special interest in caring for caregivers in various fields, as well women who handle stress on a daily basis.
Understanding that caring for the feet, cares for the whole body, Kat started with RECOVERY THROUGH THE FEET in her reflexology work, then grew her barefoot health experience into understanding the benefits of freeing the feet from conventional footware.
She has teamed up with her other company, Peace Roots Apothecary, in formulating a Barefoot Recovery Foot Care Line, helping those transitioning into minimal footwear, as well as for those in various streams of the barefoot community.
Her products support athletes, avid barefooters, dancers, those recovering from injuries, holistic health professionals, chiropractors, podiatrists, personal trainers, anyone feeling sore feet, those feeling the effects of stress and more.
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Heather Sandison, ND: Reversing Alzheimer's | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:50:07
I am absolutely delighted to have you meet this week's guest, Dr. Heather Sandison.
Dr. Heather Sandison is a distinguished naturopathic doctor who has devoted her career to providing compassionate care and innovative solutions to those affected by dementia. Renowned for her pioneering work, Dr. Sandison has integrated groundbreaking, holistic, and multimodal interventions, seamlessly creating clinical, residential, research, and educational platforms. Her dedication has not only transformed the lives of patients and caregivers, she has also set new standards in the field of dementia care.
She is the founder of Solcere (Soul – SAIR – eh) Health Clinic and Marama, the first residential care facility for the elderly of its kind. She is the primary clinical investigator and author of the peer reviewed article, Observed Improvement in Cognition During a Personalized Lifestyle Intervention in People with Cognitive Decline, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease in August 2023.
Dr. Sandison also hosts the annual Reverse Alzheimer’s summit and her latest book, Reversing Alzheimer's, was released by HarperCollins this past June. I highly recommend this book! And it is already a bestseller, poised to bring her dream of making dementia "rare, and optional" into reality.
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Kristann Heinz, MD: All About Hormones | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:03:41
This week I want you to meet one of my favorite people on the planet, Dr. Kristann Heinz.
Dr. Heinz is a medical doctor (MD) board-certified with the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American Board of Integrative-Holistic Medicine and the American Board of Physician Specialties in Integrative Medicine. She is also a registered dietician (RD), a physician acupuncturist and a certified practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine. She received her B.S. in Nutrition Science at Simmons College. After graduating, she completed a dietetic internship and two Maternal and Child Health Fellowships. This training allowed her to work as a registered dietician with many community-based family nutrition programs. She went on to receive a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her family medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network. During this time, she began studying other forms of healing, such as acupuncture, medical group education, homeopathy, herbal medicine and functional medicine. Her research during residency focused on integrating these modalities into a primary care setting for which she was given the Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship. Dr. Heinz currently practices integrative family care and provides medical, nutritional and educational services throughout the United States. Her home office, Red Hill Medical + Wellness, is located in Pennsylvania.
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Amy Offutt, MD: Getting to the Root Causes of Chronic Illness | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:00:50
This week I am excited to introduce you to my new friend, Dr. Amy Offutt.
Dr. Offutt is an extensively trained Integrative Medicine physician who treats patients with complex health issues using a wide array of individualized strategies for healing. She cherishes her relationships with her patients and approaches her care, viewing each patient as a whole person. Her goal is to partner with patients to empower them to regain vitality, strength, mental clarity, energy, purpose, and a desire to share their gifts with others. Dr. Offutt was recently appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors for ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society).
To learn more about Dr. Amy Offutt and her practice, Heart & Soul Integrative Medicine, you can visit: https://www.amyoffuttmd.com
If you are a physician or know one who would be interested in attending an ILADS conference, there is one coming up in November 2024. Learn more here: https://www.ilads.org/ilads-conference/2024-ilads-annual-conference-san-antonio/
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Kristin Reihman, MD: The Brain Health Round Up | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:40:56
Over the past week I have shared some of what happened to my brain in 2022, during or shortly after an elective surgery on my neck. As I was crafting those emails, I was thinking about how we've never had a guest on the Podcast who'd recovered their brain after such an injury. Given my close work with brain-injured kids and Lymies with brain fog, it dawned on me that hey, we need one!
And then it dawned on me that maybe I am that guest. So that's who you're getting this week.
I hope you find this vulnerable sharing helpful, and not off-putting. I do this in the hopes that someone, somewhere, will find it valuable to hear my story. If you have someone you know who is challenged by a brain not functioning optimally, I would be honored if you would share this episode with them.
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Anni Powell: Craniosacral Therapy | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:50:31
This week I would like to introduce you to Anni Powell.
Anni Powell is a registered nurse, lifetime musician, CranioSacral therapist, and nature lover. She has practiced as an RN since 2011 with a background in cardiac intensive care, progressive step down care, family medicine, and currently serves as a hospice nurse, certified CranioSacral therapist, and music performer. She began studying CST in 2020 with the Upledger Institute, opened her own practice in 2022, and completed the CST techniques certification in 2023. She continues to study with the institute and with personal mentors to refine the art of CST and SomatoEmotional Release, and also assists with CST classes. She has found over the years, after embarking on her own healing journey, that wholeness and health are addressed on all levels - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. All parts affect the whole. Looking within to do the work with compassion, curiosity, and a dose of bravery, will eventually reveal everything needed for change, and a unique, personal prescription for wellness!
If you are local to Bethlehem, PA, and you would like to Anni her for a session, she has graciously offered 20% off of our first session. Just mention this podcast episode. You can reach Anni by calling or texting her at 484-951-0388, or by email at annipowellcst@protonmail.com
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Kerri Rivera, D.Hom: Healing With Chlorine Dioxide, Part 1 | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:44:03
Kerri Rivera is a homeopath, a mother of a brain-injured child, and a maelstrom of controversy.
She is also one of my personal heroes.
I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for complex, chronic infections, and I decided to use it on myself. The rest is...well, the rest you can learn about in my ebook, or in this talk! Regardless, I hope you will make time for it this week, since it might just be the tool you were looking for to carry you the rest of the fall, winter, spring, and beyond.
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Kerri Rivera, D.Hom: Healing with Chlorine Dioxide, Part 2 | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:48:48
This week, Kerri Rivera is back to continue the conversation about chlorine dioxide, recovering kids from autism, and so much more.
I learned about Kerri's work using chlorine dioxide (aka CD, aka MMS) to help children recover from autism in 2012, at which point I decided I needed to know more. After digging into the research, I became convinced of its safety and potential benefit for complex, chronic infections, and I decided to use it on myself. The rest is...well, the rest you can learn about in my ebook, or in this talk! Regardless, I hope you will make time for it this week, since it might just be the tool you were looking for to carry you the rest of the fall, winter, spring, and beyond.
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Heather Gray FDN-P: The Renegade Health Boss | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:34:34
This week I would like you to meet Heather Gray, a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist and Bioenergetic Practitioner specializing in supporting clients with chronic and complex illnesses such as Lyme disease, mold toxicity and autoimmune diseases. With over 32 years of personal experience, she understands the struggles of living with these conditions and is dedicated to helping others find relief. As an author, speaker, and stand-up comedian, she wants to inspire, educate and entertain others on their healing path.
Heather's personalized approach as a practitioner, podcast host, and author, has helped countless clients reduce inflammation in the body and brain, improve gut health, and achieve optimal wellness.
She helps her clients get to the root cause of their symptoms and helps them take control of their health journey. Heather's approach is not only effective but also empowering.
If you would like to learn more about Heather's courses, you can check them out here and even get $100 off: http://rhbcourses.com/grove
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Sabine Hazan, MD: The Gut Microbiome | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:53:53
This week I would like to introduce you to Dr. Sabine Hazan.
Dr. Hazan is a physician, author, world-renowned speaker, and gut microbiome expert.
As the first woman accepted into the University of Florida as a Clinical Gastroenterology Fellow, Dr. Sabine Hazan is a pioneer in the medical field. She has published articles in numerous prestigious medical journals, and is the Series Editor on the microbiome for Practical Gastroenterology , a peer review journal that reaches 18,000 gastroenterologists. She is also a speaker for the World Congress of Digestive Disease, MAGI, Microbiome Congress, ILADS, TACA, International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Conference and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). As a specialist in gastroenterology, internal medicine, and hepatology, Dr. Hazan has used her medical expertise in many regards over the last two decades.
Dr. Hazan is the CEO of Ventura Clinical Trials, where she has 20+ years experience leading clinical trials for cutting-edge research on various medical issues and has done over 300 clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. Since March 2020, she has been at the forefront of COVID-19 research, leading ongoing FDA-approved clinical trials for treatment and prophylaxis ON Hydroxychloroquine, Zpack, VIT C D , Zinc And IVM
She is also the founder & CEO of Progenabiome, a genetic sequencing research laboratory, she leads 35+ studies investigating the role of the gut flora in various diseases
Through their study exploring the role of the gut flora in COVID-19, Progenabiome became the first lab worldwide to detect SARS-CoV-2 from Patient Fecal Samples by Whole Genome Sequencing and the lab that showed a susceptibility marker for COVID in the microbiome.
Dr Hazan is mastering Familial fecal transplant showing hope for kids with Autism. She created The Malibu Microbiome meeting where physicians who perform fecal transplant can discuss their findings freely.
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Tania Elfersy: Perimenopause and Menopause | The Healing Grove Podcast
00:54:33
This week I would like you to meet Tania Elfersy.
Tania is a transformative coach and award-winning author, specializing in midlife women's health. Tania has spent years researching what causes and what can relieve symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause. She became free of her own physical and emotional symptoms, naturally and simply, through insight alone.
Tania set up The Wiser Woman project in 2015 to help women transform their experience of midlife change and reach freedom from hot flashes and night sweats, anxiety and mood swings, insomnia and fatigue, and more. Through her coaching, writing and teaching, Tania focuses on connecting women to the innate brilliance of their bodies, having seen that healing occurs with ease when we relax into the divine intelligence within.
Tania is the author of The Wiser Woman’s Guide to Perimenopause and Menopause, which upon launch became an Amazon best-seller, and the co-author of an award-winning book on motherhood.
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Ann Corson, MD: Hypercoagulability | The Healing Grove Podcast
01:00:40
I would like you to meet my friend and colleague, Dr. Ann Corson.
Ann Corson, MD grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania and obtained her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 1982. Dr. Corson has residency training in Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Family Medicine and is currently board certified in both FM and Integrative Holistic Medicine in 2011.
Dr. Corson became a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) in 2003. She has studied with Dr. Joe Burrascano and Dr. Charles Ray Jones. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in treating patients suffering from chronic vector borne diseases and environmental illnesses.
After listening to this episode, if you are interested in working closely with Dr. Corson, you can contact her directly at afcmd@me.com.
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