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Wondery presents Blood Ties

Listen to Blood Ties Season 2 on the Wondery app. Download it today to join Wondery+ with a free trial to enjoy ad free listening, exclusives, binges and early access. Get it here: [https://wondery.app.link/UpmaC6vYI7] Wondery’s hit audio drama “Blood Ties” is back for a second season with Josh Gad & Gillian Jacobs returning as Michael and Elenore Richland. This season they are joined by Dominic Monaghan (“Lost”) as David Hammer the new CEO of Richland Health and Wayne Knight as Peter Richla...

Episode 38: Ketosis for Mental Health with Dr. Lori Shemek

Dr. Lori Shemek is an award-winning, bestselling author of How To Fight FATflammation, Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting, Fire-Up Your Fat Burn, and the recently published The Ketogenic Key. She is a leading health and weight loss expert, has appeared in dozens of publications and TV shows, and is also known as “The Inflammation Terminator.” In this episode, Dr Shemek shares about her newest book, The Ketogenic Key. She shares what the ketogenic diet is, how ketosis benefits our menta...

Ketosis for Mental Health with Dr. Lori Shemek

Wondery presents the Next Big Idea

Hosted by Rufus Griscom, and featuring thought-leaders Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink, The Next Big Idea brings you the most groundbreaking ideas that have the power to change the way you live, work, and think. This week’s episode features a conversation about the power of being “weird” Listen to the full episode here: http://wondery.fm/NextBigIdeaSW

Episode 37: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health with Dr. Noshene Ranjbar

Dr. Noshene Ranjbar is Harvard-trained and board certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Integrative Medicine. She serves as medical director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic at Banner - University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson. In this episode we discuss the changes in mental health approaches in the last 20 years, how integrative psychiatry is different, nervous system dysfunction, common underlying issues that impact mental wellness, a whole body a...

An Integrative Approach to Mental Health with Dr. Noshene Ranjbar

37. An Integrative Approach to Mental Health with Dr. Noshene Ranjbar

Episode 36: "Put the Burden Down" - a Conversation about Racial Trauma with Rochelle Riley

Rochelle Riley is the author of The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery, as well as the Director of Arts and Culture for the city of Detroit. In this episode, we discuss her powerful book and why this is the conversation we've been needing to have for over 400 years. She shares the impact of chronic stress on people of color and why we are in unprecedented times as a nation. To purchase her book and learn more about her work, head to www.rochelleriley.com. Follow Ro...

"Put the Burden Down" - a Conversation About Racial Trauma with Rochelle Riley

36. "Put the Burden Down" - a Conversation about Racial Trauma with Rochelle Riley

Episode 35: How Food Really is Mood with Ali Miller RD

Ali Miller is a registered dietitian, integrative functional medicine practitioner, and author of Naturally Nourished, The Anti-Anxiety Diet, and The Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook. In this episode we discuss the concept of food as mood, how neurotransmitters play a role in gut health, and how your stress response affects your overall health - from mental wellness to reproductive function to immune health. She explains the 6 approaches she takes to restoring our bodies to their rightful state, ...

35. How Food Really is Mood with Ali Miller RD

How Food Really is Mood with Ali Miller RD

Episode 34: The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 with Dr. Amelia Villagomez

Dr. Amelia Villagomez is an integrative psychiatrist at Progressive Psychiatry in Fort Worth, Texas. In this interview, Dr Villagomez addresses the top mental health concerns during this pandemic and its aftermath. She shares how the abundance of information may be negatively impacting us, as well as the trauma resulting with the current season. We discuss sleep strategies, meditation, positive self talk, the gut-brain connection, the importance of whole food nutrition in brain health, alon...

34. The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 with Dr. Amelia Villagomez

The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 with Dr. Amelia Villagomez

Episode 33: Small, Intentional Steps We Can Take to Improve Career, Health, and Lifestyle with Sandra Beck

Sandra Beck is an author, coach, speaker, radio host, entrepreneur and philanthropist as well as my personal mentor! She is also the host of multiple popular podcasts, including Military Mom Radio, Motherhood Talk Radio, and Coach Talk Radio. Her successful company, Motherhood Incorporated, was started out of a need to provide a steady income while working from home with her kids as a single parent. In this episode, Sandra shares the small steps we can take toward making a big impact, wheth...

33. Small, Intentional Steps We Can Take to Improve Career, Health, and Lifestyle

Small, Intentional Steps We Can Take to Improve Career, Health, and Lifestyle

Episode 32: Ask the Pediatrician with Dr. Alina Olteanu, MD, PhD

Dr. Alina Olteanu is the founder and president of Whole Child Pediatrics of North Texas. She is the only pediatrician in the Dallas-Fort Worth area trained through the prestigious Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, founded by Dr Andrew Weil. In this episode, we dig into all the common concerns parents have with young children: fevers, ear infections, food sensitivities, digestive troubles, common nutrient deficiencies, nutrition, gut health, and ways to support a healthy immune system....

32. Ask the Pediatrician with Dr. Alina Olteanu, MD, PhD

Ask the Pediatrician with Dr. Alina Olteanu, MD, PhD

31. Nourish Hormones, Detoxify, Improve Sleep and Boost Immune Health with Esther Blum

Episode 31: Nourish Hormones, Detoxify, Improve Sleep and Boost Immune Health with Esther Blum

Esther Blum is the bestselling author of Cavewomen Don't Get Fat, Eat Drink and Be Gorgeous, Secrets of Gorgeous, and The Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous Project. As an Integrative Dietitian and High Performance Coach, she provides 360 degrees of healing with physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual support. In this episode, we discuss how to detox and improve hormone function, why stress management should be the starting point to health, why protein is the missing link for many women, h...

Nourish Hormones, Detoxify, Improve Sleep and Boost Immune Health with Esther Blum

30. How to Care for Sensitive Children with Dr. Sandy Gluckman

Episode 30: How to Care for Sensitive Children with Dr. Sandy Gluckman

Why are some children more sensitive than others? What is going on inside their brains and nervous systems? "Listener favorite," Dr. Sandy Gluckman, shares all about how to care for sensitive children, the overuse of labels in psychology and education today, and how we can treat the whole child, not just address the symptoms. Learn more about Dr. Sandy and access her many resources at www.drsandygluckman.com

How to Care for Sensitive Children with Dr. Sandy Gluckman

29. Being Bipolar in a Global Crisis - Tools to Manage Stormy Moods

Episode 29: Being Bipolar in a Global Crisis - Tools to Manage Stormy Moods with Erin Kerry

Don't let the title fool you - these tips are not just for those diagnosed with mental illness. Due to the current circumstances in our world, it is more important than ever to adopt a wide range of tools that support mental health. Change, stress, and uncertainty can be triggering for those diagnosed with mental illness. For this episode, I interviewed various friends with bipolar disorder and depression in order to gather background. I share their thoughts along with the tried and true too...

Being Bipolar in a Global Crisis - Tools to Manage Stormy Moods

Episode 28: Busting Common Health and Diet Myths with Chelsea Blackbird, NTP

Chelsea Blackbird, aka "The Christian Nutritionist," is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who loves to help women optimize their metabolism and find food peace. In this interview, she shares about how she overcame her own journey with unexplained infertility, a skin condition, and digestive issues when all conventional treatments failed her. Other topics addressed: - Adrenal burnout and the effect on hormones - The importance of natural light - Creating metabolic flexibility - Pitfalls of g...

28. Busting Common Health and Diet Myths with Chelsea Blackbird, NTP

Busting Common Health and Diet Myths with Chelsea Blackbird, NTP

Episode 27: How Do We Talk to Our Kids about COVID-19? with LPC Karlie Jager

"Kids need a connected adult, not a problem-solver." Karlie Jager is a licensed professional counselor and registered play therapist who works with children of all ages on a regular basis. In this interview, we discuss how parents can help their kids process all the heavy emotions related to school closures, cancelled vacations, birthday parties, prom, graduation, and all the other major disappointments resulting from this pandemic. Whether you are the caregiver of a 3 year old or a 16 year ...

27. How Do We Talk to Our Kids about COVID-19?

How Do We Talk to Our Kids about COVID-19?

Episode 26: Finding Food Freedom with Casey Bonano, RD

Casey Bonano is a registered dietitian specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, disordered eating and intuitive eating. Casey believes in a non-diet nutrition approach, and strives to empower her clients to reject diet culture. In this interview, I talk with Casey about the health at every size movement, how stress can trigger disordered eating behaviors, food psychology, the concept that our bodies our on our side to keep us safe, orthorexia, the cultural obsession with clean eati...

26. Finding Food Freedom with Casey Bonano, RD

Finding Food Freedom with Casey Bonano, RD

25. How We Can Manage Our Mental Health During Times of Uncertainty

Episode 25: How We Can Manage Our Mental Health During Times of Uncertainty with Leigh Richardson and Sandra Beck

In this special simulcast episode, Sandra Beck and I speak with Leigh Richardson, Founder and DIrector of The Brain Performance Center in Dallas. Leigh offers fabulous insight into how we should be taking care of our mental health during uncertain times, such as global pandemic or orders of shelter in place.

How We Can Manage Our Mental Health During Times of Uncertainty

Episode 24: Why Stress is Destroying Your Health and How to Manage It with Erin Kerry

You can eat clean, exercise every day, take all the right supplements, but if you aren't managing your stress, you miss out on true health. In fact, due to the current circumstances in our world, I'd say it is more important to manage your stress than ever before. What does chronic stress do to our immune system? Digestion? Reproductive health? Listen to this mini-episode to learn about the affects of stress but more importantly - how to manage it in practical, realistic ways.

24. Why Stress is Destroying Your Health and How to Manage It

Why Stress is Destroying Your Health and How to Manage It

23. Why Healthy Habits Suck with Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley

Why Healthy Habits Suck with Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley

Episode 23: Why Healthy Habits Suck with Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley

Why can't we make healthy habits stick? Why is it so hard to eat better or make lasting changes? Why can't we control our weight and get to where we want to be? The answer may surprise you - your brain was wired this way! Clinical psychologist Dayna Lee-Baggley shares information from her new book, Healthy Habits Suck, which shares how to live a healthy life... even when you don't want to! In this discussion we cover the problem with setting goals, how you are not your feelings, and how we ca...