Wow!  Can you believe it! It is Wednesday, August 28th AND my 60th episosde of Elisa Unfiltered. That’s an exciting little milestone.

Today’s show is all about Lifestyle Medicine with Ottawa’s most recommended Naturopathic healer Dr. Kristy Lewis.

Kristy understands the potential we all have to be our best selves. Our bodies, minds and emotions give us messages when we are not in alignment with ourselves (in other words, out of balance).  Dr. Kristy listens to each patient’s individual story and makes the connections between the messages, how we are feeling and where we want to go.  She takes a natural approach to healing, bringing us back to center in our lives and she accomplishes this with passion, dignity and grace.

Dr.  Kristy has a private Practice at Sage Wellness in Ottawa. She hosts a wonderful podcast titled “In Between Visits”, and a blog where she shares her knowledge to help interested people figure out what’s actually going on in life. She is here today to talk about a few of the major pillars that impact us within lifestyle management!!

This week I am excited to talk all about my Love Your Body Challenge.  This  FREE 21 page e-book is downloadable by going to elisaunfiltered.com/loveyourbody.  Here you will find my Top 5 Tips on how to change the way you see your body.

In today’s podcast, I am taking a deep dive into these 5 tips, and sharing the difficult personal experiences that launched my determination to grow, heal and love who I am today in spite of my past.

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, and is curious to discover the power of Self-love.  Learn what healthy Self-talk looks like, and how to build a strong and  healthy LOVE Foundation to enhance your personal bond to yourself, ultimately enabling you to LOVE YOUR BODY unconditionally.  Want to know more?  Take the challenge yourself and work through the exercises that bring awareness and attention to your life in a positive and loving way!

My guest today is an Ottawa based registered holistic nutritionist, a plant based chef and consultant, AND an incredibly inspiring woman.  Her name is Amy Longard and she is here to share her story.  When I met Amy for the first time, I could relate to her immediately.  We share some similar life experiences in our health struggles and career changes. We both love discovering how FOOD affects our bodies, mood and well being. As a Vegan, plant based eater, Amy breaks down some myths and misconceptions about plant based diets. We speak about adding more vegetables to your diet to improve your life AND she gives some great tips on becoming a conscious eater.

Have you jumped on the Beyond Meat burger trend? Well guess what, we get into the do’s and don’ts of healthy Plant based eating too!

This episode is for anyone and everyone!!  I love speaking with nutritionists because I feel to educate yourself about what is really going on inside our bodies and how food truly affects us is part of being awake in life.

You can find Amy on her website www.amylongard.com or follow her on Instagram @amylongard

Please support this podcast.  I need your support.  You can do this by making a monthly donation to my Patreon account accessed through the link in my bio on Instagram or by clicking HERE.  Even $1/month goes a long way.  You can also show your support by subscribing and rating this podcast. Thank you.

She’s back!  Today we are getting up close and personal with one of Ottawa’s most influential yoga teachers and business owners, Amber Stratton.

Amber is co-owner of Pure Yoga Ottawa, Pure Kitchen, Charlotte Ottawa, Tallow Ottawa and Pure Yoga Online.  Amber has been teaching yoga for over 11 years, she also runs teacher training, retreats and workshops worldwide.  She is a key note speaker, a Lululemon ambassador and she was awarded Ottawa’s Top 40 under 40 in 2014.

Today she is in the studio talking about Legacy, her definition of success, as well as how showing up for yourself leaves an impact on everyone around you.

Please support this podcast.  I need your support.  You can do this by making a monthly donation to my Patreon account accessed through the link in my bio on Instagram or by clicking HERE.  Even $1/month goes a long way.  You can also show your support by subscribing and rating this podcast. Thank you.

How do you WANT to feel?  How often do you ask yourself this question and is the answer clear and self serving?

As the summer kicks into full swing, we are often times kicked out of our usual habits and routines, so this week is a little reminder to pay attention to the way we are feeling.  It’s also a good time to see if our feelings and emotions are serving us.  Are we putting ourselves in position to feel the way we want to feel.

In this podcast, I share how paying attention to our feelings can help to steer away from pain and suffering, and can help us to identify when we are having conditioned emotional responses.  When we bring awareness to the way we want to feel and our current emotional conditioning, we can then begin to heal and begin to change.

Please support this podcast.  I need your support.  You can do this by making a monthly donation to my Patreon account accessed through the link in my bio on Instagram or by clicking HERE.  Even $1/month goes a long way.  You can also show your support by subscribing and rating this podcast. Thank you.

Ayruveda is the practice of an ancient medicine based on the idea of balance in bodily systems using diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing, among other things. When I first heard of it, I was sceptical. When my health took a bad turn last summer and I met Kristie Gambrel, and I decided to open my mind to non-traditional medicine. My decision was life changing.

This week, I’m speaking with Kristi, my Ayruveda coach (and friend), and we take a deep dive into what this science is all about, what the constitutions look like within our bodies and how the practice has changed my life forever.

Please support this podcast. I need your support. You can do this by making a monthly donation to my Patreon account accessed through the link in my bio on Instagram or by clicking HERE. Even $1/month goes a long way. You can also show your support by subscribing and rating this podcast. Thank you.

Manifesting… what does that word even mean? What does it look like in your own life? I can tell you this, that word made me roll my eyes all the way into the back of my head when I first heard it. I was a skeptic, and I did not believe it was possible to have any control over what we attract into our lives.

That was until the day I woke up and started to pay attention to what I was attracting and how I was doing it. This podcast is all about the laws of attraction as I have experienced them, and what manifesting my life means to me. It’s full of fun relatable stories and how practicing positive thoughts for as little as five minutes a day can begin to transform your life.

This year, for my 38th birthday, I decided I wanted to embark on another solo mission trip. I woke up one morning earlier in the year and had this thought—I want to be in Whistler, BC for my birthday, how can I make this happen.

That thought snowballed from one thing to the next and YES I made it happen. I woke on my birthday between luxurious sheets in a king sized bed at the beautiful Fairmont Whistler resort, with a HUGE smile on my face. But that’s not the only reason I was smiling. For the eight days prior to my birthday, I was on a solo adventure of a lifetime.

This week, I am shedding light on how traveling alone has shaped who I am today and how it fills my soul with love, positive vibrations, and most of all EMPOWERS me to continue to heal the parts of me that remain broken. My journey of self discovery is enhanced with travel and I want to share with you some of the EPIC things that went down this month on my 10 day Solo Mission Birthday Trip to Portland, Oregon and Whistler, BC.

This week I am speaking to Leah Brathwaite, a friend who went through her own awakening after realizing that she was miserable, living a lie and pretending to be someone that she was not.

Leah’s inner voice spoke to her in a way that snapped her into action and she then began to live life by following her passion, freeing her soul and living in the now.

Her powerful story of transformation is now available in her new book entitled A New Way of Life: From Livinging a Lie to Freeing Your Soul (which I read in one sitting) and today we are delving into the inner workings of the book.

Leah’s story resonates deeply within me as we share so many similar moments of awakening, and I am delighted that she is here today to discuss how she changed her relationship to herself and the world around her.

Follow Leah on Instagram @leah.Brathwaite or click HERE.

Want the book? Get it HERE.

The topic this week is an extension of my outward thinking and processing of emotion in my body. I had a big AH Ha moment this past weekend and it presented itself in a way that I least expected it.

We all feel emotions in our body, but what are these feelings telling us? What are they teaching us? Are we paying attention to what emotions do to our physical body, and our mental state?

In this podcast I share several interesting emotional experiences, explain what they teach me about my past and how this is helping me to go with the flow and live a fulfilling joyful life.

Please support this podcast. I need your support. You can do this by making a monthly donation to my Patreon account accessed through the link in my bio on Instagram or by clicking HERE. Even $1/month goes a long way. You can also show your support by subscribing and rating this podcast. Thank you.