Join Dr. Jennifer Coomes for Episode #1 of Season #2 of the EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast where she talks about the difficulties of cultural stress, grief, and impacts after the passing of Charlie Kirk, a political activist in the United States who was driven to live nonviolently in the active search for truth, conversation, family, and divinity.  Regardless of your political or religious viewpoints, serious cultural events such as assassinations, suicide, trauma, and more can have serious impacts on our psychological, physical, mental, spiritual, and mental health.  The best we can do in this time of processing and healing is to talk about realities, how to stabilize better, and how to sort through cultural stress better to reduce violence, mental health imbalances, and more.   While this episode may be triggering for some, its primary intention focuses on how to live better, how to process stress better, how to live in your truth better, and how to consciously reduce noise to decrease anxiety, ADHD, and more.  

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Essence Health & Research (EH&R)

Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN), Executive Director

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The Lemonade Resurrection podcast series is all about how to take the good and bad, the ups and downs, the wins and losses of 2024 and make the best lemonade you can to go into 2025 with your best self that you can.  This can be difficult in the midst of bigger challenges, grief/losses, and pivots, but it's important to find your anchor, do spiritual, physical, and mental health cleansing to help you find a better way forward.  

This episode called "Grounded Momentum in Health & Thriving" rounds out Season #1 of the Metabolic Transformations Podcast and helps us fully dig into the essential healing we need to do to shed off deeper grief, losses, and difficulties of 2024 to try to make that lemonade to see a new normal, new version of yourself, and do your best to restore yourself into better health and thriving for the new year.  Dr. Coomes travelled through deeper grief and loss this season and this time period has been a real time learning and restructuring through pivots to build a more restored soul, body, mind, and spirit, and she shares her profound knowledge and insight for trying to build a better philosophy of care, understanding of self, creating more solid authenticity for living a more meaningful life. 

This episode is good for anyone trying to bring the best in 2025 while understanding the realities of brokenness, new normals, and finding health and thriving in the midst of challenge. If you are willing to do the work to take a step day by day, you will change your life for the better.  

For anyone who needs help in mental health crisis, please don't hesitate to use or share the National Suicide & Crisis Line of 988.  You can call or text.  Reach out for help, and don't forget to take care of yourself in the new year.  

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Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
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www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

The Lemonade Resurrection podcast series is all about how to take the good and bad, the ups and downs, the wins and losses of 2024 and make the best lemonade you can to go into 2025 with your best self that you can.  This can be difficult in the midst of bigger challenges, grief/losses, and pivots, but it's important to find your anchor, do spiritual, physical, and mental health cleansing to help you find a better way forward.  

This episode about Motivation, Breakthrough, and Miracles talks about the physiology of motivation more as a springboard of the Drive series along with what we need to do create more miracles and breakthroughs in our lives in spite of rebounding from challenge or even in the midst of joy.  Motivation physiology and psychology is designed around helping us experience more balance and equilibrium, and when our bodies our healthy, our minds can be as well.  Learn more about motivation in times of challenge as you embark on making your own lemonade out of 2024.

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief. 

The the third episode in this series called "Shed the Extra, Remember What Matters" is an episode about the rebuilding process after loss and grief.   Many times, if we lose someone or something important to us, it can pivot our lives entirely and make so many things that you thought were important less important for good reason.  This episode talks about some of the similar concepts of self care and making important choices about diet, health, lifestyle, personal time, mental health, stress coping mechanisms, and personal choices in the framework of grief and loss.  This can be a time period where you are forced to make changes when you otherwise would not, and you can get into the habit of hearing the same ideas over and over again until you finally tune in and say that it's important to carve out what is important and shed what is not.  This episode encourages you, enables, you to ask for help if needed and get started on what matters in your life while tending to yourself and the outside world gently as you navigate during times of change.

If you are someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or mental health crisis, please call or text 988 or reach out to for help with someone you know.  No matter how hard the time is, your life is important.  Please reach out for help until you get it. It can save your life or someone you know.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
[email protected]
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief. 

The the second episode in this series called "The Physiology of Depression & Motivation" as a piggyback on the first week about the physiology of grief.  The key elements of depression require us to really understand depression from a metabolic perspective to learn more deeply about its mechanisms of disease that are not always thought of, especially in "treatment resistant" depression cases that are simply not responding to medication but would respond to metabolic healthcare. Some of these mechanisms include blood sugar regulation, hormone regulation, cortisol regulation, and more.  It's more than a discussion of neurotransmitters but a discussion of systems biology, micronutrient imbalances, and the functionality of our healthcare system in how we are currently approaching this very important mental health condition.   Swinging into a life of motivation, better energy, and better momentum can change your life, and it is a matter of commitment and choices to understand your personal health in a new way and create the kind of alignment in your life to steer towards your best health and be willing to save yourself from burnout, suicidal thoughts, and actions that are detrimental to your health.  Join Dr. Coomes for an empowering, honest, real time, and informative look at shifting out of grief and depression and into a more fulfilling life after loss. 

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
[email protected]
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief. 

The the first episode in this series called "How do you start and get help--The Physiology of Grief" is a more vulnerable but also scientific episode as Dr. Jennifer Coomes talks about her own loss of someone special to her recently through suicide and how to work through the initial stages of grief.   She talks about the physiology of grief as it is related to peri-trauma responses that increase stress responses, affect cardiovascular and nervous system health, emotional/mental health responses, sleep, appetite, and more.  Dr. Coomes talks about how to get control of the monster in grief to help you embrace self care and healthy processing to reduce physical and mental health stress that can be associated with increased risk of disease.   Grief can be an uncontrollable physiological response depending on the person, the level of grief, and the degree your nervous system responds and reacts to the loss, but there is a way through.  It is important to ask for help and take a step forward, and this podcast series will help you on the journey.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
[email protected]
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

The EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast is BACK with a New Series called Keep Calm & Follow Through, which is all about getting traction and momentum in personal health, relationships, and thriving in your life by activating the power of commitment.  Part of this series is about determining if you are a "starter" (ie. motivated) or a "finisher" (ie. committed), and if you are not the greatest finisher, then what can you work on to be better at the commitment responsibility of following through (ie. putting action to commitment).  This series will travel through the arc of commitment and the work to get the fruits of commitment during this harvest season.

This week's episode called "Barriers to the Finish Line" is all about the obstacles associated with commitment and finishing your goals.  Dr. Coomes talks about the real reality of change and pivots that can create barriers to follow through such as fatigue, distraction, ability to discern, taking action, and communication difficulties.   Her discussion is focused on a metabolic, nutrition, and lifestyle programs as well as navigation through normal life.   This episode concludes this series.

The EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast is BACK with a New Series called Keep Calm & Follow Through, which is all about getting traction and momentum in personal health, relationships, and thriving in your life by activating the power of commitment.  Part of this series is about determining if you are a "starter" (ie. motivated) or a "finisher" (ie. committed), and if you are not the greatest finisher, then what can you work on to be better at the commitment responsibility of following through (ie. putting action to commitment).  This series will travel through the arc of commitment and the work to get the fruits of commitment during this harvest season.

This week's episode is called "Benefits of Breakthrough?  You Break Bad Habits/Cycles,"  and it digs into the struggles of trying to commit to a health program and assessing for obstacles to cure and setback habits that prevent follow through.  This episode continues to tackle the issues that come with determining if you are a good starter, a good finisher, neither, or both.  Follow through is a commitment to both start a good thing and to follow through and finish to get good results. This requires investment and commitment and the power to assess your habits, setbacks, and what you can do better to get to the fruits of your labor, which is great health.  This episode talks about how to get at those stress coping mechanisms, emotional eating, the struggles inside change (even positive change), and dealing with the vulnerability of needing to put self care first.  Change is usually imperative if your health is causing you distress, and being willing to follow through on good health commitments requires having a good health/medical team, someone who can figure out the roots of your conditions/symptoms, a program that is focused on resolving those concerns, and an accountability partner to help you achieve results.  Sometimes, though, this can all start with some really small but important changes.  This commitment results in breaking bad habits. Check out this episode to learn more about how to get there so you can experience the fruits of your labor with thriving!

Next Week's Episode:  "The Power of Follow Through--Health, Life, Thriving, True Confidence, & Healthy Relationships"

For more info on Essence Health & Research (EH&R) and how to make an appointment with Dr. Coomes at EH&R or SageMED, check out the contact info below: 

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
[email protected]
425.505.3090

The EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast is BACK with a New Series called Keep Calm & Follow Through, which is all about getting traction and momentum in personal health, relationships, and thriving in your life by activating the power of commitment.  Part of this series is about determining if you are a "starter" (ie. motivated) or a "finisher" (ie. committed), and if you are not the greatest finisher, then what can you work on to be better at the commitment responsibility of following through (ie. putting action to commitment).  This series will travel through the arc of commitment and the work to get the fruits of commitment during this harvest season.

This episode is called: "You Get Better When You Do It: Breaking Down Commitment Phobia." This is a perfect one for these times and it is a piggyback on previous serious on collaboration and health readiness. The idea here is to get at the stuff, the mess, or the habits that is holding you back from commitment and follow through in generating the fruits of health whether it be in personal/professional relationships, your personal health, or your habits. Most of you in the Seattle area know about the "Seattle Freeze" cultural phenomenon here and I talk about that as well in regards to our ability to truly get settled into healthy experiences. Here are a few things I talk about in this episode:

1. Getting into relationship and telling the truth and getting past false narrative.

2. Sorting out messes and getting resolutions and better relationships.

3. Getting to your truth--what do you need to confront, what do you need to do, what is true, and what is not?

4. Where are you checked out or checked in regarding your personal health, habits, commitments, and relationships?

5. What is one area of your life where you need to confront peacefully and follow through on a commitment?

NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE: "What is the benefit of breakthrough? You break bad habits."

For more info on Essence Health & Research (EH&R) and how to make an appointment with Dr. Coomes at EH&R or SageMED, check out the contact info below: 

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
[email protected]
425.505.3090

Generating Health Series:   This podcast series with Dr. Jennifer Coomes covers many topics associated with health readiness, or the ability to be ready to make critical and stepwise changes to establish personal health, healthy relationships, and healthy relating in life.  This series will talk about obstacles to cure to health, the "healing crisis" that can come out of pushing hard at health change or inadvertently generating a strong immune response to with a health protocol, the healthy pathway to sorting through physical and emotional pain leading to lifestyle diseases, how to create healthy action plans and goals for generating health, and the process of adjusting to a new health routine taking you away from an unhealthy life to a healthy one.  This is also an important series during Suicide Awareness Month in September 2024 so that people do not feel alone and can get support for making changes to lead a more productive and healthy life. 

This episode called "The Action Plan for Health Readiness" is focused taking the identification of the health problem and the obstacles to cure to create an action plan that identifies possible solutions, a commitment to the solutions that work for your life, actions to create a schedule or routine that you can follow day to day that will achieve results to your health problem, and identifying ways to deal with stress or setback while making commitments.  This is a great episode for those who are trying to make positive changes in your life to get out of chronic disease and toxic habits or relationships while making commitments to better changes and routines that will put you on a healthier and better path for health longevity. Whether it's a medical condition, stress/mental health coping, relationship difficulty, or habits to change, this episode gets you in you a better mindset and commitment attitude to turn your situation around with more support, which will lead into the next episode of finding your way in the transition to your new and better health routine in the midst of stress or setbacks.


For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
[email protected]
425.505.3090