A Healthy Curiosity

Our need for belonging and approval traces its roots back to our primary evolution to survive, but today, it can often lead to setting impossible standards for ourselves in an effort to please everyone around us. Amy E. Smith shares some fascinating insights into why it's so toxic to let everyone else come before ourselves and how we can begin to overcome our people-pleasing ways by pairing assertiveness with kindness and grace. We dig into ways to hone your sense of self to seek the fastest avenue to peace by focusing on intentions rather than receptions.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• How perfectionism is just another form of people-pleasing
• The value of serving from a place of love and sustainable energy
• Why people-pleasing is a facade and how to stop doing it
• Finding trigger concepts by asking yourself what you habitually complain about
• Tips for feeling powerful in potentially triggering situations

Amy E. Smith is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Founder of TheJoyJunkie.com, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With acute focus on helping people "find their voice", she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert on Fox 5 San Diego and YourTango.com

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Some of us constantly find ourselves overcoming obstacle after obstacle that's ultimately stemming from our own sense of anxiety which amps up everything in our lives. Nancy Jane Smith refers to that set of people as having high-functioning anxiety and, in her experience, that often leads to hitting a wall at some point. In this conversation, Nancy addresses how she helps people to work through those feelings as well as how to navigate through being stuck in this kind of anxiety in order to be kind to yourself and still accomplish your goals.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• How Nancy differentiates between anxiety and high-functioning anxiety
• The twofold problem of both having anxiety and developing unhealthy coping mechanisms
• What the three different voices in your head are called and how they behave
• The outer benefits of having a kinder inner dialog
• What Nancy's ASK process is and how it helps to reduce unwanted stress

Nancy Jane Smith has a Masters Degree in Higher Education and in Community Counseling from the University of Dayton. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eleven years in private practice and has spent 20+ years working as a counselor/coach. She has written three books on living happier, most notably, The Happier Approach: Be Kind to Yourself, Feel Happier and Still Accomplish Your Goals. A certified Myers-Briggs®, StrongCareer Assessments®, and Daring Way™ Facilitator, Nancy has brought her light-hearted, practical speaking style to corporations and nonprofits as both a keynote and workshop facilitator like the Bailey Cavalieri Law Firm, CASA of Central Ohio, Wallick Communities and the NAWBO Bradyware Visionary Leadership Conference.

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We've talked about shame recently and how it can hold us back, but what about the kind of shame that is deeply rooted in our past, that becomes and internal weight on our soul through the years? Dr. Suvrat Bhargave has extensive experience in helping people work through their vulnerabilities to lift the shame from their lives as a psychiatrist. In this episode, he shares with us some practical approaches to questioning the doubts from which shame can arise as well as why dealing with shame needs to be a balance of our need for connection with our individuality.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• Dr. Bhargave's relationship with shame in his own life
• Why identifying and confronting shame is so powerful
• Finding transformation through moments of insight
• Identifying with your being rather than your roles or actions
• The blueprint for proving your inherent goodness and divinity to yourself

Suvrat Bhargave, M.D. is a renowned and respected educator, author, speaker, and board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. His uncanny ability to relate to a multi-demographic audience has allowed his practice to reach an unparalleled level of success based on empathy, education, and empowerment. His book, A Moment of Insight: Universal Lessons Learned from a Psychiatrist's Couch, offers practical strategies and thought-provoking narratives to not only understand and persevere through challenging dilemmas, but to see greater purpose during these times. He demonstrates this through poignant patient stories and personal accounts. Affectionately known for his "relatable expertise", Dr. Bhargave is highly sought after to lecture locally and nationally on a broad range of topics pertaining to personal growth, effective parenting, relationship satisfaction, and mental health conditions. After completing his residency training and specialty fellowship from Duke University, Dr. B (as he is lovingly called by his patients) continued his practice in hospitals, community health, and private practice settings.

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Shame, and the fear of it, can be such a powerful obstacle that it can stop us from doing all sorts of things we want to do, from going to the gym to speaking our truth. So how can we identify and own our shame to break free from that paralysis? In this solo episode, we dig into ways to escape the shame spiral and avoid getting locked down by it in the future.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• My impromptu coaching session in the airport
• Why you should avoid adding things to your life without subtracting other things
• The value in speaking shame and doing so in community
• How focusing on your why can help you push through perfectionism and fear

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Brené Brown

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As humans, we've evolved to have strong, often unconscious reactions to thoughts and situations that might cause us to be in danger. Sometimes we end up internalizing those thoughts and they become limiting beliefs that impact us far beyond what we might initially realize. Lael Petersen shared some great insights in our conversation about these beliefs as well as why they're so common and nothing to feel shame around.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• How to identify limiting beliefs
• Techniques to help make the unconscious conscious and start changing beliefs
• Why this is a process that takes practice and can be slow
• The value of immersing yourself in ideas and visualizing the things that help you become the person you want to be.

Lael Petersen is a therapist turned life coach with over 18 years of experience helping women and their families thrive. Her years in private practice combined with her own personal healing journey give her a unique perspective on what it takes to "live our best lives." She currently leads an on-line community of women dedicated to prioritizing their health and mental health and sees clients privately as well.

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Kelly McGonigal

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When I say the word "posture," do you immediately feel your body tense and gravitate to an unnatural, uncomfortable position? We often hear this advice about maintaining a rigid posture with certain key elements, but Sukie Baxter joins us to discuss why those misconceptions of posture are harmful and how she defines it instead. Sukie tells us that the way we move our bodies is the way we move through life and that finding a healthy posture is often the key to pain relief and healthy aging.

On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:

• The benefits of addressing movement dysfunction before we're in pain and some key warning signs
• How to use your body to talk to your mind
• Why we should pay attention to the cues we get from our body, both good and bad, and ways to respond to those cues
• The relationship between posture and breath as well as keys to using breath as an assessment tool for the body
• Sukie's practices for resilient posture and some of the common advice she gives to her clients

Sukie Baxter is a Posture and Movement Specialist, the author of Perfect Posture for Life and the mastermind behind Whole Body Revolution, an informational resource for posture, pain relief and healthy aging. Sukie helps people change their lives by changing the way they move.

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Perfect Posture For Life by Sukie Baxter

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Sukie's free guide, No More Tight Muscles

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Being successful does not necessarily bring happiness. For my guest Dr. Andrea Pennington, it did the exact opposite: it burned her out, and stifled her spark to the point of deep depression, and cut her off from herself in profound ways. Thankfully, she found her way back.

When I stumbled across this fellow Chinese Medicine and qi gong practitioner's work, and learned we shared a passion for blending paradigms, biohacking and evangelizing self-love, I immediately reached out to get this multi-passionate powerhouse on the show. We talk about:

• falling into the "success trap:" how getting everything she wanted made her miserable
• how a profound spiritual experience rescued her from a deep depression
• why self-awareness is a pre-requisite for self-love
• the connection between happiness and authentic self-expression
• how qi gong helped her connect to self-love
• how identifying as consciousness itself fosters self-compassion

Dr. Andrea Pennington is an integrative physician, acupuncturist, meditation teacher and #1 international bestselling author of several books on resilience, mindfulness and self-love. Dr. Andrea's extensive study of medical nutrition, positive psychology and longevity biohacking led her to create a holistic media platform, In8Vitality, blending ancient wisdom and modern science for enhanced vitality and life mastery. As Co-founder of the #RealSelfLove Movement Andrea speaks globally to reduce the stigma of mental illness and to support people on their journey to authentic living Andrea is also a highly acclaimed TEDx speaker. Dr. Andrea has shared her candid insights on resilience on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Dr. Oz Show, CNN, the Today Show, LUXE-TV, Thrive Global and HuffingtonPost and as a news anchor for Discovery Health Channel.

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Pelvic Pain Solutions for Women

with Dr. Jessica Drummond

Is it normal to have pain with your menstrual cycle? Or pain with sex? These types of pain are very common, normalized in our cultural conversations (if they're talked about at all). But they are certainly not required, nor should we just accept them as part of what it means to have a female body. Join me to break the silence, dispel myths, address common causes and treatment options for pelvic pain with Dr. Jessica Drummond. You'll hear about:

• endometriosis, vulvodynia and what we can do about them
• how the awareness of trauma might actually be doing women a disservice when it comes to a pelvic pain diagnosis
• how Chinese Medicine can help
• building a holistic-minded treatment team for pelvic pain

Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC Founder and CEO of the Integrative Women's Health Institute is passionate about caring for and empowering women who struggle with women's and pelvic health conditions. She is equally passionate about educating and supporting clinicians in confidently and safely using integrative tools to transform women's and pelvic healthcare.

Two decades of experience in women's and pelvic health as a physical therapist and functional nutritionist, plus owning a private women's health clinical nutrition and coaching practice, gives her a unique perspective on the integrative, conservative options for pelvic pain management, hormone balance, preconception and fertility support, postpartum recovery, and chronic pain and fatigue management in active and athletic women. She regularly lectures on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, female athletes, and functional and integrative nutrition for rehabilitation, nutrition, wellness, fitness, and medical professionals.

Find Dr. Jessica Drummond at: https://integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com/

Find Dr. Jessica Drummond's book at: Nutrition for Relieving Pelvic Pain: Fueling the Patient/Practitioner Healing Partnership

Dr. Drummond's Free Video challenge: https://integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com/opt/4-challenges-to-relieve-pelvic-pain/

Other resources mentioned in this episode: By Amy Stein

Heal Pelvic Pain: The Proven Stretching, Strengthening, and Nutrition Program for Relieving Pain, Incontinence,& I.B.S, and Other Symptoms Without Surgery

Books by Tami Lynn Kent: Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body

Mothering from Your Center: Tapping Your Body's Natural Energy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

Wild Creative: Igniting Your Passion and Potential in Work, Home, and Life

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Decompressing Time

with Brodie Welch, L.Ac., M.S.O.M.

How often do you feel "pressed for time?" Feeling "time-crunched" is an all-too common source of stress, as our world has never moved faster. This solo episode is about getting right with time. You'll learn:

• Why being in integrity with your energy and your time is essential for optimal health
• the Liver's role in allowing us to flow through life and what happens when Liver Qi stagnates
• A practical way to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be

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Meditation, Mindfulness and Manifesting

Emily Fletcher

So, sure, you've tried meditation. But, maybe you haven't been able to achieve the magical "daily practice" that so many successful people seem to be invested in? Why not? Enter Ziva Meditation: a technique for the the modern day that encompasses meditation, mindfulness & manifesting, designed to unlock your full potential. Today we talk to Emily Fletcher about:

• why we should bother investing our precious time sitting with our eyes closed every day
• whether you really can learn to meditate online
• what's different about this style of meditation

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance.

The New York Times, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC News have all featured Emily's work. She's been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 15,000 students around the world and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard Business School and Barclays Bank. Ziva graduates include Oscar, Grammy, Tony & Emmy award winners, NBA players, Navy SEALs, Fortune 500 CEOs, busy parents and social entrepreneurs.

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