Functional Moms Podcast

Raquel interviews Dr. Achina Stein, an Amazon international bestselling author of “What If It’s NOT Depression?: Your Guide to Finding Answers and Solutions.” 

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Dr. Stein shares:

Dr. Stein is a board-certified psychiatrist and has been in practice for 25 PLUS years. Propelled by her son’s mental health crisis in 2010, she found functional medicine which resolved all his mental health problems as well as her own. She has a busy private practice called Functional Mind LLC in Riverside, RI where she sees patients for functional medicine and psychotherapy.

As a companion to her book, she offers programs to find and reverse all of the root causes of your depression-like symptom. It's a perfect alternative to medication for people with chronic mild to moderate depression-like symptoms that does not respond to antidepressant medications. She also offers a course on how to manage antidepressant withdrawal symptoms and “Taper Off SSRI."

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Instagram @dr.achinastein 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/achina.stein

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@drachinastein

Visit her web site www.achinasteindo.com

This interview took place LIVE at the Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference in Orlando, Florida. 

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Guest Jessica Pierce, a reCODE 2.0 (Bredesen) and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, shares how her life changed in 2017 when her mother was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment while caring for her parents, who were in the terminal stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She soon discovered that she and her mother carry an increased genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s.

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Jessica is offering a $200 discount off her 8-week group coaching program beginning July 6th. All you have to do is DM the code word “FMCM” to her on Instagram or Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088137031182⁠

https://www.instagram.com/braincoachjess

You can also visit Jessica’s web site https://www.encodewellness.com for more information on her programs.

For further reading -- check out ⁠https://www.amazon.com/End-Alzheimers-Program-Prevent-Cognitive/⁠

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Yoga and meditation expert Cheryl Wilson shares her personal journey from struggling with anxiety and overwhelm while working an unfulfilling job to discovering yoga and meditation as a way of healing herself.

She became a yoga and meditation teacher to help others and shares how even moms who've struggled with mindfulness can incorporate it with a few minutes per day. It's not the duration, it's the frequency!

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Cheryl can be found on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwbodyandsoul She is offering a virtual complimentary group meditation class for listeners. DM the code FMCM to her via instagram.

Visit her web site at https://www.cwbodyandsoul.com to sign up for meditation sits, privates and yoga therapy.

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Two-thirds or 67 percent of calories consumed by children and adolescents in 2018 came from ultra-processed foods, a jump from 61 percent in 1999, according to a 2021 Journal of the American Medical Association study.

This episode is for you if you've ever been concerned about the amount of sugar and processed food your kids have been eating! Or if you're confused about how to read labels in the grocery store. Small changes go very far.

Connect with Teya on Instagram ⁠https://www.instagram.com/teya_helene

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Raquel and Kristin discuss FIVE ways an "ALL OR NOTHING" mindset sabotages our lives.

As moms, we often think we don't have enough time for the things we want to have time for like working out, home cooking and quality time with friends and family! But what if we drop the ALL OR NOTHING mindset and realize all our efforts count? We might not need as much time as we think.

This episode is for you if you think you don't have enough time for the important things in your life!

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In this second episode, Raquel shares how as a fitness professional training hundreds of women, she felt like something was missing for her clients. In Raquel's attempt to empower women in her custom Fit Mom Camp, she realized these women were on the "hamster wheel" of fitness. After getting great results and transforming their bodies, they'd end up right back where they started.

Raquel discovered that fitness was only a piece of the puzzle in their path to wellness and that mindset played an integral role. She added functional medicine coaching to her arsenal to help moms create sustainable changes leading to better health through a functional medicine lifestyle.

This episode is for you if you're frustrated by your fitness inconsistencies.

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~Kristin & Raquel

In this first episode, Kristin shares her personal journey of how functional medicine changed her life and saved her family's health. She talks about how functional medicine:

This episode is for you if you've been curious how living a functional medicine lifestyle can heal chronic health issues for you and your family.

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~Kristin & Raquel

Are you aging well as a middle aged mom? Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by all things wellness? —losing weight, gaining muscle, reducing stress, finding time to exercise, getting sound sleep, feeding yourself and your family healthy meals –  it goes on and on. 

Meanwhile, what do we REALLY want?? To look great, to feel great AND BE our best. YET let’s face it, there’s almost too much health information out there, and life as a mom is challenging—we often put ourselves last! 

How can we make a change when change seems so overwhelming and aging seems to be happening at an all record speed?

Join functional medicine certified health coaches and NJ moms Kristin Brucker and Raquel B. Cartagena (also a certified personal trainer and older adult fitness specialist) as they help you age on your own terms!

Functional Medicine Coaching Moms podcast will feature practitioners, health coaches, skin specialists and nutritionists to name a few – all from a functional medicine perspective. 

There will also be candid conversations with moms; everyday moms, sharing what actually works and what they are still struggling with. 

The goal of this podcast is to simplify healthy lifestyle change for mid age moms.

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