Cristina talks with Jennifer Robins, the superhuman behind Predominantly Paleo, Legit Bread Co., five published cookbooks, and thousands of delicious recipes. Jen knows firsthand the importance of true self care that supports her health and wellness. This episode is full of tips, tricks, and empowerment; your autoimmune disease won’t stop you from doing everything you want, but you can’t forget the importance of true self care!

TOPICS:


• Meet Jennifer Robins (00:19)
• Balancing goals with autoimmune disease (09:56)
• Red flags, white flags, and signs you need to slow down (15:42)
• Working with autoimmunity to manage stress (24:41)
• Redefining self care outside of beauty regimens (29:50)
• Finding the food protocol that works for you (35:12)
• Closing thoughts for self care and autoimmunity (39:36)

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• Get more from Jennifer Robins on her website, PredominantlyPaleo.com
• Check out Jen’s cookbooks
• Order the most delicious paleo mixes from Legit Bread Company
• Follow Jen on Instagram @predominantly_paleo

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Cristina talks with Dr. Brandy Victory about the layers of healing, going all the way to the root cause and imparting wellness on the cellular level. So many of us have been convinced that we are not active experts on our own healing, but the truth is we all have a divine right and ability to heal. So how do we tap into that, and what can we do with that information? This episode covers a little bit of everything.

TOPICS:


• Meet Dr. Brandy Victory (01:55)
• Getting to the root cause (03:54)
• The roles that our conscious and subconscious minds play in healing (07:52)
• Working through the mindset of only treating symptoms (13:01)
• How to tap into the energetics of healing (18:15)
• The intersection of healing and quantum physics (22:10)
• Belief systems as a healing tool (25:14)
• Bioindividuality and tapping into your unique root cause (28:33)
• Honoring your body’s seasons (30:57)
• Accessibility in functional medicine and planting seeds (32:34)
• More from Dr. Brandy Victory (42:45)

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• Get more from Dr. Brandy Victory on her website, DrBrandyVictory.com
• Follow Dr. Brandy on Instagram @drbrandy
• Find Dr. Brandy’s group on Facebook

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Cristina and Justin reminisce about the last year: COVID-19, quarantine, deployment, separation, parenting, adulting, moving, and the collective loss we’ve all felt. From lack of community to lack of stimulation, losing loved ones and jobs and homes … together, as a society, we’ve been through a lot. It’s important to look back and recognize the weight of this last year, along with the support systems that helped us make it through.

TOPICS:


• Meet Justin, Cristina’s husband (00:25)
• 65 days in isolation and the impact of COVID on mental health (02:31)
• The new normal and adapting the family routine to meet everyone’s needs (05:45)
• School in the age of COVID … and managing expectations (12:17)
• Dealing with behavior changes (14:53)
• Being more intentional about pandemic coping mechanisms (19:54)
• Pacing yourself and putting things into perspective (29:26)

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Cristina and Laura get to talk with Heather Coonan about her experience with vulvar cancer. From the diagnosis to treatment, plus the healing process and everything that comes after, Heather shares her story, beyond cancer. Heather’s grace and raw honesty empowers us all to pursue a different path in our individual healing journeys, and in our relationships with our bodies and pleasure as women.

TOPICS:


• Life with lichen sclerosus and the beginning of Heather’s health journey (03:55)
• How Heather self diagnosed correctly (5:22)
• Heather’s official diagnosis and the c-word (06:53)
• Medical trauma, power imbalance, and the struggle of body autonomy from a female perspective (14:01)
• Taking the power back as a patient (19:40)
• Self-advocacy and body autonomy within a cancer treatment plan (21:14)
• Combining conventional healing methods with naturopathic modalities, becoming cancer-free (23:25)
• Making real lifestyle changes for long term health (28:26)
• Life after cancer and supporting survivors (38:36)
• Enjoying sex after a physical trauma (40:47)
• Questioning the normalization of women’s pain (44:55)
• Vulvar cancer, women’s pleasure, and reimagining the conversations we have as a society (53:31)
• Getting clear on your personal values in a health crisis (1:00:48)

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• Find more from Heather Cooan and check out her story of self-healing on her website, HeatherCooan.com
• Follow Heather on Instagram

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Cristina meets with Anya Perry and Brianna Wilkerson to get to the core of how to set realistic, sustainable goals. They explore new year resolutions, why diets don’t work, and the types of habits you should focus on instead to get the results you REALLY want.

TOPICS:


• Meet Anya and Brianna (01:18)
• How to create supportive habits (04:52)
• Common weight loss roadblocks and how to get around them (08:47)
• Why diets don’t work (13:38)
• Creating room for nuance and evolution (18:36)
• Viewing weight loss as a side effect of being healthy (21:37)
• Changing the mindset around your relationship with your body and weight loss (26:16)
• Setting resolutions that stick (27:44)
• The Healthy Body Summit (31:05)
• Get more from Anya and Brianna (35:48)

RESOURCES: 

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Access the Healthy Body Summit
• Find more from Anya Perry:
  • Check out Anya’s website
  • Follow Anya on Instagram
  • Check out Anya’s Facebook community
  • Listen to The Habit Queen Podcast
• Find more from Brianna Wilkerson:
  • Check out Brianna’s website
  • Follow Brianna on Instagram
  • Check out Brianna’s Facebook community
  • Listen to The Sustainable Weight Loss Podcast

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Cristina chats with body connection coach Lauren Geertsen about how we can heal our relationship with food while healing the relationship and trust we have with our bodies. Lauren is the author of The Invisible Corset and has dedicated herself to helping clients around the world trust their bodies and step into their soul purpose.

TOPICS:


• Meet Lauren Geertsen (00:20)
• Where food as medicine worked, and how it fell short (01:20)
• Body connection coaching (03:34)
• How diets fail, why fat people aren’t inherently unhealthy, and fat discrimination (05:10)
• The difference between affirmations and afformations (09:22)
• The power of flower essences (12:15)
• How our disconnection from our bodies harms us (14:22)
• Visualizations, reintroductions, and what to do after we heal (18:42)
• The 5 strings in The Invisible Corset (22:13)
• The history behind controlling the female body (28:51)
• Where body positivity falls short (33:02)
• How the beauty industry disconnects us from our true selves (37:27)
• Our bodies as our true soul mates (50:19)

RESOURCES: 

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Find more from Lauren Geertsen:
  • Check out Lauren’s blog: https://empoweredsustenance.com/
  • Follow Lauren on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/body_connection_coach/
  • Read more about Lauren’s floral essences: https://floralsong.com/
  • Grab a copy of The Invisible Corset: https://invisiblecorset.com/

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Cristina and Laura are celebrating Body Wise Podcast’s 1 year anniversary with a 2020 wrap up and some thoughts for the year ahead. They explore how we can all get back to ourselves after so much trauma and so many dysregulating experiences -- it doesn’t have to be complicated! We can get back into our bodies and our hearts through playfulness, laughter, and fully embracing moments of childlike joy. Happy New Year from Body Wise to you and yours!

TOPICS:


• Celebrating year one of Body Wise Podcast (00:27)
• The energy of the new year … in the middle of winter (01:25)
• Following the cycles of energy (03:32)
• Takeaways from 2020 (04:43)
• Burning out and feeling tired “for no reason” (09:59)
• The emotional labor of 2020 (15:28)
• Managing energy and expectations in 2021 (17:53)
• Finding moments of peace and joy to bring you back to your self (23:55)
• Preparing for 2021 (27:55)
• Playfulness as a spiritual tool (30:06)
• The value of play (32:35)
• Last messages for 2020 and welcoming in the year ahead (34:24)

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• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]

Cristina is interrupting the regularly scheduled body shaming diet dogma to bring you a new perspective on pursuing health in the new year. We’ve all had enough to deal with in 2020, let’s not start another year off by traumatizing ourselves with diet culture. Instead, Cristina is inviting you to explore the space between healing protocols and weight loss diets to find what really makes you thrive.

TOPICS:


• Making the shift from weight loss to healing (00:48)
• Weight loss as a side effect of healing (03:49)
• Why intuitive eating misses the mark for managing autoimmune diseases (06:04)
• Elimination diets as wellness tools (07:23)
• The importance of experimenting to see what really works (08:09)
• Using dietary protocols without diet dogma (10:51)
• Finding flexibility within your eating template (12:53)
• Ancestral eating as a template and a lifestyle (15:31)
• Tweaking things to build personalization within a protocol (20:23)
• Looking back to see how far you’ve come in healing (21:07)
• Diet as the foundation for overall wellness and loving yourself into healing (24:23)

RESOURCES: 

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!

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• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]

Cristina talks with Gemma Aguayo-Murphy about Latinx heritage and cooking. From healthy swaps to dealing with guilt from swapping seasonings possibly shaming the ancestors, making meals work for the entire family, finding flavors that fit your food intolerances, and more. 

TOPICS:


• Meet Gemma Aguayo-Murphy (00:18)
• Keeping your ancestors alive through recipes (03:13)
• Balancing traditional Mexican dishes with paleo (04:40)
• Finding food freedom in ancestral dishes (07:37)
• Making food swaps work (11:32)
• The Americanization of ancestral meals (15:15)
• Navigating food intolerances and picky palettes in Latinx cuisine (17:24)
• Honoring the ancestors and our people with healthier options (22:07)
• The importance of making information accessible (26:07)
• Making meals and sharing a day in the life (28:58)
• Pregnancy and childbirth during a pandemic (31:35)
• Favorite recipes from Gemma’s blog and where to find her online (35:02)

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• Find Gemma on her blog at EverydayLatina.com and on social @EverydayLatina

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Cristina talks with her therapist, Keesha Sullivan about all things therapy. From how to find a holistic therapist, to identifying programming, plus developing a better relationship with the ego and its purpose, how to know when to bring your kids to therapy, whether or not you can heal, and so much more. This episode is full of valuable insight that helps diffuse the stigma associated with therapy.

TOPICS:


• Meet Keesha Sullivan (01:24)
• Approaching therapy from a holistic standpoint (03:41)
• Programming and the subconscious mind (04:33)
• Collaborative therapy (05:37)
• What is transpersonal therapy? (06:58)
• Identifying the ego and its purpose (08:09)
• The importance of feeling your feelings (11:21)
• What is hypnotherapy? (13:16)
• Therapy for children (17:25)
• Where solution-based therapy misses the mark (24:15)
• How to find the right therapist (26:25)
• What is PTSD and can it be healed? (30:15)
• Why it’s important to not “should” your feelings (35:17)
• Healing your relationship with food through hypnotherapy (40:29)
• Breaking up with a therapist (48:23)

RESOURCES: 

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Contact Keesha Sullivan through her website, TherapistsTampa.com or email her at [email protected]

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• Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com, and on social media @love.my.cycle
• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]