In this episode, Cheryl and I dive into her transformation from the corporate world to sickness to regaining her health, through finding her joy within and the tools she has developed over the years, that she now shares with ...
I'm talking about detoxing this week, and the fact that we live in a world that makes it really important for us to be helping our bodies detox. So my question for you is, how would you like to feel every day? And what does t...
Why do we need to detox? The reality is, unfortunately, we live in a toxic world with over 144,000 manmade chemicals introduced since World War Two. What happens is that the human body was never designed to have to deal with ...
Today I want to talk to you about the movie dark waters. A client brought it to my attention and said after watching it, that she understood why I was so passionate about helping people detox, and for those of you that have b...
This month, the theme of my podcast is intuition and in this episode I share my experiences with my own intuition, from being afraid of it, to learn to use it and embrace it. Our intuition is our guide – in decision making, i...
I want to talk to you today about a few more natural remedies for dealing with seasonal allergies. Rather than taking the over counter medications, which tends to keep it in, let's get it out of your body so that your body ca...
This week I'm talking about seasonal allergies, and I want to introduce you to quercetin, if you haven't heard of it before, it is a flavonoids. In fact, it's one of the most abundant flavonoids in our diet, and it acts as an...
This week, I'm talking about seasonal allergies because it is starting to be that time of year, depending where you live in the world, and that you may be starting to experience spring and pollen in the air and snow melting a...
In this last episode of my “play” theme, Deb King of “The Wisdom Playground” and I discuss ditching your B.C. (Before Covid) ways of doing things and instead choosing to step into doing this differently, designing the life yo...
Today I want to talk about our B vitamins. This is a whole family of vitamins, and these are vitamins that the body tends to burn through in a state of stress. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner he...
Today I'm going to be talking about magnesium as I continue my series on vitamins. Magnesium is a another mineral that the body needs and is highly deficient in our soils, so we need to be supplementing. About the Host: Melis...
Today I want to talk about Omegas-our essential fatty acids and they're essential because again, the body doesn't make them. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause o...
This episode continues the theme of “Play” and incorporating fun movement into your life. I share with you how I do that in my life, as well as why doing so is beneficial for your health, and the list I share is not exhaustiv...
Now everyone knows vitamin C boosts your immune system, but did you realize that it's also a very powerful antioxidant for your body, it's also antiviral antibacterial, is an antihistamine, which means it can help fight off a...
If you live in the northern part of the US or anywhere in Canada, and you're not supplementing, you are deficient, because we simply do not get enough hours of sunlight onto our bare naked skin for enough hours of the day and...
For the next two to three weeks I'm going to be talking about the power of vitamins and helping our bodies heal. Before I get into that, I just wanted to produce this episode to let you know that this information is for educ...
This is such a fun episode because Janet Omstead loves to play, she lives and breathes it! It’s all about your mindset! Most people don’t enjoy “workouts” because it sounds like work! However, when you instead choose to “play...
Today I'm talking about factors that you can focus on to help boost your metabolism to make it easier for you to be able to lose weight. But the thing is, is it's never just one thing, it does take a whole-body approach. Abou...
If you're someone who's struggling to lose weight, it may be partially because you have a slow metabolism. How do you know if you have a slow metabolism? Listen in to the Health Hack to find out. About the Host: Melissa is a...
This week, I'm going to be talking about metabolism. What is it? Do you have a slow metabolism? And if so what you can be doing about that. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to t...
When was the last time you allowed yourself to play? In this episode, I dive into the benefits of play, how as adults we take life too seriously and we have these societal “norms” we all follow, that indicate we shouldn’t pla...
Rounding out the week talking about stress, and stress can very often be the cause of some of our bad habits, in that stress starts to negatively impact our sleep. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner...
Today I want to talk about how stress is inversely impacting productivity. Very often we get into a state of stress when we are trying to get a lot of things done, and yet, the more stressed we get, the less productive we bec...
Today I want to talk to you about stress because I have an upcoming free workshop on stress the silent killer happening soon. I also want to talk about one of the biggest triggers of stress in our world, especially right now,...