Dr. Body Mind Soul

This season started as 10 episodes and became 50 with thousands and thousands of downloads! THANK YOU SO MUCH for listening. And I can't wait to come back to bring you what I am learning during my Masters of Integrative Medicine that I am currently taking.

Please do tune in - and share - episodes you love - or haven't yet heard. And let me know what you would LOVE to learn more about - and I will craft the next season with all that feedback at the forefront.

Till next time peeps x

Hally Brooke is the Founder & CEO of Live Nourished Coaching. She is a Certified Functional Medicine  Nutrition Counselor, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Fitness & Nutrition Expert,  and fierce industry advocate. 

From her own personal experience overcoming serious GI issues, her mission at Live Nourished Coaching, is to make the life changing power of health coaching accessible to every single person in the US (and that is just for starters!)

In this episode we cover;

• The root causes of chronic inflammation and dysregulated immune responses.
• Gut health and autoimmune disease prevention.
• Health coaching as a complement to medical practice.
• Health coaching regulation and quality.

You can contact Hally through her website -

www.livenourishedcoaching.com 

or via instagram on -

@livenourishedcoaching 

@hallybrooke

Dr Jenna Borough is a perinatal clinical psychologist, hypnobirth practitioner and trauma informed educator who is dedicated to serving women wherever they are on their journey through parenthood. Whether you are undergoing fertility treatment. have experienced loss; gone through a traumatic birth or adapting to your new life Dr Jenna wants to support your psychological and emotional well being - as she experienced first hand lack of such services when she became a new mother. And has now decided to help others navigating through this time. 

In this, very personal episode, we cover -

• Assumptions about risk and trust.
• How to prepare for the unexpected.
• Tips for preparing for a safe birth.
• Postpartum mental health.
• What can people do about postpartum depression?
• Preparation for the postpartum period.
• The importance of listening and respecting.

Jenna includes some really important resources for anyone who needs help in preparation or support.

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/

https://birth-ed.co.uk/blog-1/tag/megan+rossiter+hypnobirthing

You can find her on https://www.drjennapsychologist.com/

or instagram @dr.jenna.psychologist

Melissa Sanger is a Womb Witch guiding women to the power of their menstrual cycle and sexual energy. She came to this work having had no period in 3 years - which took her on a life changing journey around Latin America where she worked with plant medicine and shamans to bring her fertility and femininity back to her. She now works with women all over the world to help them connect to their wombs and the wisdom it holds by weaving womb massage, ritual and coaching to empower them to have incredible sex, relationships - with their partners - and most importantly themselves. 

In this episode we cover - 

• How to use the energetics of your cycle to help you in your work - and relationships
• Using dynamic energy to plan.
• The importance of ovulation every month and the benefits. 
• Fertility awareness method vs birth control. 
• How to create time for rest and what actually means to rest. 
• Tantra Yoga and sexuality.
• Working on your sexual energy. 
• How to work with a yoni egg.
• Shame and self-consciousness.

Melissa invites you all onto her mailing list so you can find out about her upcoming retreats and events. You can sign up here https://www.melissasanger.com/.

Dr Deepak Ravindran is one of the UK’s leading pain specialists. He is one of the few medical consultants who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine using all of this knowledge to give his patients a truly integrative and holistic approach. He is author of the book The Pain-Free Mindset which outlines 7 steps to taking control and overcoming chronic pain - which I am excited to be discussing with him today. 

In this episode we cover - 

• Integrative approaches to pain management. 
• Medication vs. lifestyle options. 
• The big picture on nutrition and pain. 
• Nutrition and the immune system.
• Advice for patients who are struggling with pain.

The resources that Dr Deepak refers to in this episode are - 

• https://deepakravindran.co.uk/book/
• https://livewellwithpain.co.uk/
• https://www.flippinpain.co.uk/
• https://www.curablehealth.com/

If you want to reach out to Dr Deepak - please find him at his website https://deepakravindran.co.uk/

Ellie Grace is a trauma informed yoga educator with an MA in Yoga Studies - who lectures medical undergraduates in the neurophysiology of yoga to nurture their personal development and prevent burnout - which has never been more important. Doctors are experiencing workplace burnout at the highest ever levels recorded, with findings from the regulator’s 2022 (national training survey) revealing that 39 per cent of junior doctors reported experiencing burnout to a high or very high degree because of their work, up six percentage points on the previous year. And this is of course - not just affecting doctors. Ellie works with war veterans, schools and corporates and many more seeking to create sustainable, human centred cultures inspired by yoga ethics and trains yoga teachers in trauma informed approaches to create social change.

In this conversation we cover - 

• What Is the neurophysiology of yoga?
• Breathwork and the nervous system.
• The impact of yoga on the brain. 
• What is a trauma-informed yoga practice?
• Bringing yoga to medical students.

If you know of any medical schools may be open to receiving a yoga education for their students please reach out to Ellie @elliegraceyoga on instagram or on her website https://ellie-grace.com/

Lisa Ryan is a physiotherapist turned trauma informed somatic practitioner who helps people find freedom from their persistent pain. And this is just so important to her - because she was once a patient herself who was told she was not expected to recover - and the best she could hope for was to manage symptoms with exercises and medication. But, after a ton of research she started to learn about the mind body connection and the impact early childhood trauma may be playing into her symptoms and this completely transformed her own life - and how she practices today.  

In this conversation we cover

• What Somatic Experiencing is? 
• Traumatic childhood events and how they impact our mental health.
• How to deal with suppressed emotions.
• Can you fully recover from chronic pain?
• 4 easy ways how to reduce chronic pain right now.

You can contact Lisa via instagram @lisaryanphysio or via her website on https://lisaryanphysiotherapy.com/

Dr Sunila Prasad was working as a paediatric doctor at Croydon University Hospital when I met her a couple of years ago in the A+E department. But little did I know she was studying Acupuncture behind the scenes to prepare herself to leave the medical profession and open a holistic clinic - which she is about to do!  

She comes onto the podcast to explain why she has made such a transition - and how she plans to combine her western and eastern medical training in her new practice. 

In this episode we cover:

• What kind of conditions lend themselves to the chinese approach? 
• Lifestyle advice and mental health. 
• Why does acupuncture work for some people and not others? 
• The side effects of acupuncture
• The impact of making the career transition to acupuncture.

To contact Dr Sunila you can find her on instagram @sp.acupunture or on her website www.spacupuncture.org.

Dr Daiana Castleman is one of only ten naturopathic doctors who is qualified by the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) as a Certified Menopause Practitioner. This places her in a unique position to be able to prescribe natural alternatives, alongside or instead of hormone replacement therapy. She puts her patients in the driving seats - guiding them with her experience and lots and lots of evidence to ensure they make the choice that is right for them.

In this episode we cover

• What is perimenopause?
• How you can tell if you are experiencing perimenopause
• Hormone therapy and breast cancer. 
• The difference between bioidentical and standard preparations. 28:54
• Alternatives to HRT

Dr Daiana is active on instagram @drdaianacastleman or you can find out more about the courses she runs on her website www.daianacastleman.com/

Tanya Cole-Lesnick is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, and personal

development coach who is focused on helping people clear their energetic clutter to pursue a life that honors their truest selves. 

Tanya really believes in the power of the group in the work she does - which is what I want to talk to her about today - because I believe this approach that is often used in the psychotherapeutic and coaching spaces - could be used in the medical field too.

So tune in to learn:

• How to clear your energetic clutter. 
• How to move through the discomfort of saying yes. 
• How to identify limiting beliefs. 
• The importance of aligning your energy. 
• The power of being part of a group. 
• The difference between individual therapy and group therapy. 

I think this information could really help us design programmes - within and outwith - the medical system - which is truly inspiring me moving forward!

I hope you enjoy. 

To contact Tanya - you can find her @tanyacole_lesnick on TikTok and instagram. 

Or on her website www.tanyacole-lesnick.com where you can join her group programmes - or enquire about individual therapy.