The recent school shooting in Uvalde Texas is yet another awful addition to a growing list of senseless tragedies that affect some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The national talking points that arise after a school shooting have become depressingly familiar, and finding a resolution continues to feel practically impossible. In today’s episode, we reflect on the gun debate, how it gets framed, and what questions we should be asking if we want to see real changes in society. We also delve into the kind of factors that might cause someone to experience a psychotic break, why someone who wants to do harm will find a way to do it, and finally, how we can use our actions and our tax dollars to affect society. Tune in as we discuss the difficult question about school shootings, which is not ‘How?’, but ‘Why?’.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah’s reflections on the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
• The questions we should be asking in the wake of any atrocity.
• Asking ‘Why?’ instead of ‘How?’ after an atrocity.
• Some of the ways politicians frame the gun debate.
• The multitude of factors that cause someone to want to do harm.
• Why someone who wants to do harm will find a way to do it, regardless of the obstacles.
• Suggestions on how our actions can have a ripple effect on the world around us.
• How we can change our actions to have a more positive effect on society.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well on TikTok

GroWise Be Well on Instagram

GroWise Be Well on Facebook

GroWise Be Well

The GroWise Be Well podcast is back! Today, our host Sarah Southwell explains that the reason new episodes haven’t been released for a few months is because she took a break to really dig in deep and answer some questions she had about herself, her business, and where it is going. Tuning in, you’ll find out what you can expect from the podcast going forward, why Sarah is going to start creating TikTok content, and why she upholds authenticity in all that she does. Sarah goes on to discuss the main subject of today’s podcast: “You have never lived this day before so what do you want this day to be?” Hear about how this revelation has changed the way Sarah lives her life and how it can do the same for you. To find out how to manifest the energy you want in your day every day and to hear examples from Sarah’s life of how this works, tune in today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• The reason for the break in the GroWise Be Well podcast. 
• The new, shorter format the podcast will be adopting going forward, with fewer or no interviews.  
• Why Sarah is going to start creating content on TikTok.
• The importance of authenticity.
• Why Sarah has been resistant to social media in the past. 
• The subject of today’s podcast: You have never lived this day before so what do you want this day to be?
• Changes that Sarah has made to the way she lives her life since her revelation. 
• How you can do this in any situation, even when going through a difficult time. 
• The power that you have over the energy you bring into your day. 
• An example from Sarah’s life that demonstrates how what you send out to the universe is what you get back. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well on TikTok

GroWise Be Well on Instagram

GroWise Be Well on Facebook

The Power of Now

GroWise Be Well

Christmas is in the air, and many of us are indulging our nostalgia by rewatching our favorite Christmas movies. The team at GroWise Be Well is no different! Tune in today to this special live episode with the whole team, talking about their favorite and least favorite Christmas movies. From surprise answers when asked what their favorite Christmas movie is (Nightmare Before Christmas and Die Hard), to golden oldies such as It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas, the team discusses and debates the merits behind a multitude of movies. We hear how Sarah saves Polar Express for Christmas eve, and why Kayli is scared by the words to “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. Find out which sequels didn’t live up to expectations, and which of the Grinch movies is most popular. We discuss the relevance of the story of Scrooge, and how it applies to the current climate, as well as the meaning behind Christmas to both religious and non-religious people. Tune in to hear the soundtracks that inspire Christmas decorating in the houses of the GroWise Be Well team, and why the movie Klaus has done so well. To unlock the ultimate Christmas movie list, and so much more, press play now. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Welcome to the live podcast with the whole GroWise Be Well team!
• An introduction to each team member and their role in the company. 
• Find out what everyone’s favorite Christmas movies are. 
• Why Sasha feels that Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie. 
• The traditions behind the Christmas movies everyone likes: from background noise while hanging lights, to growing up watching it. 
• Why Elf is funny for the whole family. 
• Why Sarah saves Polar Express for Christmas Eve. 
• The benefits of having DVDs of old Christmas movies.
• Which sequels the team feels didn’t live up to their precursors. 
• The Christmas movie soundtracks the ladies listen to when decorating (Polar Express and Burl Ives).
• Why The Santa Clause was such a classic.
• The non-traditional Christmas movies that you’ll love from Die Hard to Home Alone. 
• Why Kayli hates the song “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”.
• The relevance of Dicken's Scrooge story today. 
• How to make your kids appreciate old movies: don’t let them watch much television!
• Why MacKenzie likes How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
• Which Grinch movie the team likes best and why!
• Hear some of the reasons why people don’t celebrate Christmas and what it means to Sarah. 
• The deeper meaning behind Klaus and why it’s so popular. 
• The Christmas movies that will make you shed a tear: The Family Stone and The Last Holiday. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Nightmare Before Christmas

Elf

The Polar Express

A Christmas Story

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Klaus

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

It’s a Wonderful Life

Frosty the Snowman

In today's episode, we are joined by Steve Delvo, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, who shares his thoughts on what the immune system is and how it functions from an Eastern perspective. Rather than choosing between a Western and Eastern approach, our goal today is to learn how to put it all together holistically in a way that helps us to live most vibrantly. Rather than seeking emergency medicine, we should be thinking about staying ahead of the curve to support immunity and prevent illness. Listeners will hear about the foundations of Steve’s holistic approach, with a focus on the spleen, kidneys, and liver and their relationship to one another. We talk about the role of emotions in supporting or degrading immunity, and how a diverse diet supports your energy, and herbs and acupuncture can act as tools to get you back on track. We touch on stress, and why it is the silent killer, and the oriental habit of countering actions that bring imbalance. As we conclude our conversation, Steve tells us why it is so important to make sure your organic structure is healthy and recommends that everyone sees a Doctor of Oriental Medicine alongside their existing healthcare routine. Join us today to hear all this and more!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to today’s guest, Steve Delvo, Doctor of Oriental Medicine.
• How the gut is an exact replica of the earth’s biome.
• Degradation of diversity as the source of the earth’s decline and nature’s health.
• Why the simple answer is to re-integrate diversity into your diet.
• What it means when we say “you are what you eat”.
• The relationship between the vagus nerve and the brain.
• How the gut has neurons and is the second brain.
• Why the kidneys are the most misunderstood part of the body in the West.
• The adrenals as the root of stories of superhuman strength through the ages.
• A metaphor for the spleen as the alternator and the kidneys as the body’s battery.
• Using a diverse diet to support your energy with herbs and acupuncture as tools to get you back on track.
• How the kidneys are in a mother-child relationship with the liver.
• Why we should be thinking about staying ahead of the curve rather than emergency medicine.
• The role of emotions in immunity and how they can worsen physical conditions.
• Fear as the negative element of the kidneys.
• How there is a symphony of things you need to do to support your health, including herbs, exercise, managing emotional reactivity, and more.
• Stress, the silent killer, and how to stay healthy: Watching our emotional reactions.
• The most important principle: we just start.
• How Steve observed oriental people countering actions that brought imbalance.
• Why it is so important to make sure that your organic structure is healthy.
• His recommendation that everyone sees an oriental doctor for a consult.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

The focus of today’s episode is a topic that forms the basis of a hotly contested debate raging across all parts of the world today. I’m going to be sharing my view on COVID-19 vaccine passports which are, in many places, being used as a measure of determining whether or not citizens are entitled to enter certain institutions. I know this topic is likely to make a lot of people feel uncomfortable, but rather than avoiding discomfort I encourage you to face it, because in doing so you will learn more about why you feel the way you do. My view all boils down to the fact that I believe that trust and respect for other people’s views should form the foundation of our society; listen in to see whether you agree. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• The importance of addressing issues that make us feel uncomfortable.
• My opinion on the topic of today’s discussion; vaccine passports.
• Parallels between what is going on today and what went on during Hitler’s reign.
• A sarcastic suggestion about the type of passports that I think we should have instead.
• Why I don’t believe that remaining unvaccinated is harmful to other people.
• Trust and respect for other people’s views should be the foundation of society.
• What I hope listeners will gain from this episode.

Tweetables:

“Sometimes when we feel icky or we get upset by something, it’s a moment for us to realize that there is some truth in what we’re hearing.” — Sarah Southwell [0:00:49]

“If you want to vaccinate, you should vaccinate and I am all for your right to vaccinate but I am not for you taking away the right of choice from someone else.” — Sarah Southwell [0:02:34]

“I personally don’t believe that we should deem what is right for another person if they’re not hurting anyone else.” — Sarah Southwell [0:06:43]

“Living afraid of each other is the worst virus we could ever have. We cannot turn on one another. That will lead to nothing but destruction and violence and anger and isolation.”— Sarah Southwell [0:08:47]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

In today’s episode of GroWise Be Well, Sarah shares the visutation she practices every morning. Tuning in you’ll hear her discuss how she started her practice after learning about how to ‘check in’ with your body from EFT practitioner Carol Look. Sarah explains how she intuitively visualized her body as a house and how that visualization has changed over time to be a house that is light, brighter, and well taken care of. Hear how an early experience of body shaming can inform your relationship with your body and how visutation can heal that relationship. Join us today to learn all about the fascinating ways that visutation can bring joy to your life and nurture your relationship with your body. Tune in for our next episode where Sarah will be sharing a guided visualization of her visutation practice. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s topic and how Sarah does visutation every morning.
• What Sarah learned from EFT practitioner Carol Look.
• How Sarah checks in with her body every day.
• Why Sarah finds it useful to visualize her body as a house.
• How early experiences of being shamed affected Sarah’s relationship with her body.
• How Sarah’s visualization has changed over time.
• Why you shouldn’t feel ashamed if the house you visualize is looking a bit decrepit.
• What the different parts of her house represent in her body and daily life.
• Why her woodstove represents her chi fire.
• What Sarah learned from Kathryn Schiff and how it shaped her visutation.
• Why everyone’s visutation will be different.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Carol Look

Kathryn Schiff

Jon Gabriel

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

In today’s special episode, Sarah guides listeners through her daily visutation, a meditative visualization exercise for checking in with one’s body. It’s important to set aside at least 15 minutes for this exercise, although you may want to set aside a bit extra, especially on your first try. For this guided meditation you will visualize your body as a house. Sarah offers a gentle reminder that if you haven’t checked in with your body in a long time, the house you visualize may need some love and care, but that’s nothing to be ashamed about. Throughout the visutation she guides listeners through various visualization exercises, like using a grounding cord to invigorate your lower energies, as well as employing different colors for visualizing your chakras. Join Sarah today for this gentle introduction to visutation, or if you’re looking to reaffirm your existing practice! 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing today’s guided visutation, a visualization exercise for checking in with your body.
• Set aside at least 15 minutes for your visutation.
• Close your eyes and use the power of a gentle touch to connect with your body.
• How to begin the visualization of your body as a house.
• The importance of having patience if you haven’t checked in with your body in a long time.
• How to begin your energy run.
• How to use a grounding cord to invigorate your lower energies.
• How to use your crown chakra to connect to your celestial energy.
• Visualize your chakras as different colors.
• Call back your energy from across multiple life experiences.
• The ‘electric blue light of knowing’ and what it means for Sarah.
• The importance of establishing boundaries within your visutation.
• How to end off your visutation.
• Final words of advice from Sarah on how to start your visutation practice.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

In line with GroWise Be Well’s quest to raise the energetic frequency of humanity to get everybody to feel hopeful and feel love and gratitude, today, your host, Sarah Southwell discusses the topic of fear and how to overcome it. She opens up about her phobia of driving on the highway that she has struggled with for 18 years and how driving her son to baseball practice has forced her to face this fear. From CBD gummies to calm powder and Rescue Remedy, she explains what products she has experimented with to try to help her anxiety while driving and how these affected her. Tuning in today, you’ll hear how Sarah realized that the fear demon that locks her in a fear prison is herself, how all the products she was taking were just feeding the fear demon, and how strong emotions are like unwanted guests and you don’t have to entertain them. If you have your own fear demon, whatever that may be, tune in today to find out how you too can change your story and free yourself from fear prison!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to today’s topic of fear. 
• Sarah prefaces the episode by stating what works for her; if it doesn't work for you, don't do it.
• Sarah opens up about her phobia of driving on the highway. 
• How driving her son to baseball practice has forced her to confront this fear.  
• Her experiments with CBD gummies and other products to reduce her anxiety. 
• Find out how she came to the realization that she didn’t have to live in a fear prison anymore. 
• You never know what someone is dealing with; no one would expect her to have this fear!
• The revelation that the fear demon that locks Sarah in a fear prison is herself. 
• How she realized that, by taking calming products, she was actually feeding her fear demon. 
• How strong emotions are like unwanted guests and you don’t have to entertain them. 
• How she uses music to feel good while driving.
• How you too may be entertaining a fear demon and how to change your story. 
• The importance of not going off your medication.  

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

How much time have you spent on social media today? Probably more than you’d like to admit. And how much of that time has made you feel good? Probably not very much. In fact, it’s probably made you feel more anxious than anything else. As a non-social media user herself, Sarah Southfield has watched what it has done to the people around her, and she is horrified by what she has seen. In today’s episode, Sarah explains why the connections that social media platforms claim to create are not real and how they contribute to the mental health crisis that the world is currently experiencing. She presents a very compelling case for why we should remove social media from our lives entirely and find better uses for our time; calling friends, volunteering at homeless shelters, adopting pets. The list is endless! If you do choose to stay on social media, always keep in mind as you scroll through your feeds that nobody’s life is perfect.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Some thank you’s to everyone out there who has responded so positively to our website launch!
• The only social media platform that GroWise Be Well uses, and what they use it for.
• Sarah’s goal is to run a successful business without the use of social media. 
• Damage that Sarah has seen social media inflict upon people around her. 
• Why the connection that social media claims to create is a fallacy. 
• How social media causes depression and anxiety. 
• A question to ask yourself which will make you think deeply about the connections you have with people on social media.
• Sarah offers very compelling reasons to entirely remove social media from our lives. 
• Ways of connecting with people that are far healthier than posting on social media. 
• An important point to remember if you are going to continue using social media: nobody’s life is perfect.
• Some examples of better ways to spend your time than going on social media. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

The Social Dilemma

As a first-time traveling baseball mom, GoWise Be Well host, Sarah Southfield, has a newfound appreciation for the lengths that parents go to to ensure that their children can live out their sporting passions. For Sarah, who runs a business, a farm, a household, and loves to socialize, it came as quite a shock when she realized she needed to give up her weekends to watch her child play baseball. However, she has now fully embraced this aspect of her life, and she shares some tips she has learned which make the experience enjoyable for everyone involved. After listening to this episode, you’ll understand why you should go out immediately and buy a clip-on umbrella, and why you should not make any hasty decisions about buying a traveling truck! Sarah explains why “flexibility is queen” when it comes to being part of a traveling team, as well as which times of the weekend are essential to plan. Being present with the people you love is the most important thing in life, and for Sarah, that means being a traveling baseball mom. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Awe that Sarah fields towards families who go to great lengths to support their children's weekend sporting activities.
• One of the big shocks Sarah recently experienced when she became a traveling baseball mom. 
• Sarah explains all of the things that are keeping her schedule very full at the moment. 
• How Sarah would usually spend her weekends before she became part of the traveling team.
• The importance of being flexible as a traveling parent. 
• Some items that Sarah quickly realized are essential when you are traveling for sports events every weekend.
• Sarah’s opinion on children using electronics. 
• Activities that Sarah makes sure to have on-hand for herself and her children while they are watching weekend games.
• How Sarah has learned to handle it when her son doesn’t play as well as she knows he can.
• Why Sarah and her husband decided to hold off on buying the truck they thought they needed for weekend traveling. 
• What Sarah has learned from being a traveling baseball mom that applies to all aspects of life. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well