It can be agony to watch your children struggle through mysterious medical issues while the experts seem powerless to find a solution. Today host Sarah Southwell speaks with Grant and Paige, who share their incredible story about how they found health, joy, and abundance — but not without a fair amount of challenge and sacrifice. After struggling to have kids, they talk about the wonder of prayer and how it helped them conceive two miracle children. Grant and Paige reflect on their happiness before opening up about their kid’s medical problems. We dive into how they saw a variety of experts and how, from exploring food allergies to testing their water, nothing seemed to work. As we discuss their journey, they highlight how supportive their community and family have been. Fortunately, Grant and Paige found their breakthrough in the form of Nutritional Response Testing and the Gonstead Chiropractic method. They talk about the benefits of these approaches and how they’ve helped their children not only return to health but thrive as well. Near the end of the episode, we touch on the value of letting your kids make mistakes and what Grant and Paige do to give back. Their final message emphasizes the importance of never giving up and how the bad things that happen to you can help you to guide others through hardship. Tune in to hear more of Grant and Paige’s fantastic story and what they did to overcome their family’s health challenges. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Host Sarah Southwell introduces Grant and Paige, today’s guests.
• Grant and Paige’s struggle to conceive their two ‘miracle’ children. 
• How medical issues prevented Grant and Paige’s kids from thriving.
• Searching for answers from experts and the pain of not knowing how to help your child. 
• The power of support; having family and community that cares for you.
• Hear what path Grant and Paige found that healed their children. 
• Using Nutrition Response Testing to find what food sensitivities you may have.
• The joy of seeing your kids come back to you as their bodies strengthen.
• The benefits of the Gonstead chiropractic method.
• Letting your kids make ‘moving out of the house’ mistakes while they’re still in the house. 
• What Grant and Paige do to give back and the connection between nutrition and health.
• Grant shares specifics on the Nutritional Response Testing process.
• Grant and Paige’s final message; don’t give up. The right solution will come at the right time. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

ABC Acres

Riverside Christian Center

Gonstead Chiropractic

Ulan Nutritional Systems

Nutritional Response Testing 

Dr. Freddy Ulan

Meskwaki Tribal Settlement

WARNING: This episode has no easy answers. Tied with our previous conversation on mental health, in today’s episode GroWise Be Well Founder Sarah Southwell and Wordslinger Kayli Maffei discuss suicide. After acknowledging that this is a sensitive topic, Sarah poses a profound question; should those people who have exhausted their options and who don’t want to be on our planet anymore be allowed to leave it? While many people see suicide as a selfish act, we explore why it might be selfish to hold people back. We then talk about whether people with serious thoughts of suicide are in the right mental state to be thinking clearly — and who has the right to say what the right mental state looks like? As our conversation goes, Kayli opens up about her experience with bipolar disorder and how she often didn’t have the energy to seek help. Kayli and Sarah share their views on helping those who are going through mental hardship. Their insights tap into another tricky question; whose responsibility is it to help people? Throughout the episode, Sarah and Kayli highlight the fact that no one is “normal” and that everyone faces mental health challenges. At the end of the episode, they touch on why you should reach out to loved ones for help — it might be the first step to pulling yourself out of the pit. Tune in as we unpack this intricate topic and find out exactly what we could and should be doing to help those around us.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah introduces the sensitive topic of suicide and euthanasia.
• How many people only discuss touchy subjects in groups who already agree with their opinions.
• Why our historic moment means that the status quo has “never been so weak.”
• Whether people who contemplate suicide are in the right mind to judge their situation. 
• How we may not know what is best for people who are suffering from mental illness. 
• Permitting people to leave our planet, especially when our wishes are the only thing that’s keeping them here.
• Being so low that you don’t have the energy to seek help; whose responsibility is it to get you help?
• Exploring the limits to the help you can provide to someone contemplating suicide. 
• Focusing on what we can change and make better.
• The importance of having a conversation about what’s best for a loved one who is suffering.     
• Exploding the myth that everyone is normal; everyone has mental issues. 
• Not letting your mental illness lie to you and reaching to loved ones for help.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell LinkedIn

Kayli Maffei Linkedin

GroWise Be Well

Maintaining your mental health is a lifelong journey but you don’t have to go it alone. In today’s episode, the GroWise Be Well team shares the mental health challenges they’ve overcome and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Early in the episode, Amanda opens up about having Meniere's disease alongside bouts of depression. You’ll hear how powerful speaking to her loved ones and taking her mental health into her own hands has been in healing her life. A common thread in our discussion, we talk about the impact of self-healing and looking beyond what our doctors prescribe us. Later, Lindsay talks about experiencing catastrophic thinking and the tricks that she uses to stop these patterns in their tracks. After touching on how the stigma surrounding getting therapy is disappearing, Paige discusses having automatic negative thoughts and what she’s done to better herself. A key element of mental health, we dive into the importance of treating ourselves with love and respect before Sasha explores why cutting things out of your life is needed to achieve balance. We also touch on the benefits of visualization, focusing on healthy sleep cycles, nutrition, and physical exercise to your mental health. Near the end, the team shares how they sharpen their mental acuity. While mental health seems like a heavy topic, looking after yourself can be as simple as having an awesome tea-set — Kayli’s tea-set helps her focus on positive thinking. Tune in to hear more about mental health from the sage women of GroWise Be Well.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah introduces this episode’s focus on mental health.
• How Kayli’s awesome tea set helps reinforce positive thinking.
• How Amanda overcame her challenges with depression and Meniere's disease.
• The power of self-healing and positive thinking in going beyond western medicine. 
• Hear the trick that Lindsay uses to stop negative and thought patterns.
• Why depression and negative feelings can feel like a spiral.
• Finding clarity while feeling trapped to seek out guidance.
• Normalizing getting help and the diminishing stigma of getting therapy.
• How Paige’s anxiety affected her barrel racing career; now she’s back in the saddle.
• Trying through your struggles instead of doing something about it. 
• Learning from what you do for your kids and treating yourself with love. 
• Developing proper sleep cycles and why too much sleep can be a bad thing.
• Why cutting things from your life can be as impactful as adding things.
• Forgiving yourself and repairing broken bridges; we get to be new people every day. 
• Growing and learning from your challenges and being grateful for these lessons. 
• What you can do to sharpen your mental acuity.
• How reaching out and starting your mental health journey is the most difficult step.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

Uncommon Ware

Chick-fil-A

The Secret

Zoom

Steven Delvo

MCT Oil

The Iliad

We hear about nutrition all the time. So much so that it’s become a ‘roll-your-eyes’ topic for many. While most media focuses on the negative, host Sarah Southwell shares the positive story behind nutrition — that food can make you feel joyful and strong. After introducing the idea of nutrition, Sarah talks about being on the ‘greased path,’ which are those times when everything goes your way. Knowing about nutrition, she explains, is how you fuel yourself with a vibrancy to get back to the greased path when facing challenging times. We then dive into the meaning behind the phrase “You are what you eat” (spoiler alert: it’s truer than you might think). Sarah discusses the importance of eating non-GMO and organic food before noting how store-bought food can damage our health. Sarah talks about how nutrition is often generalized based on many body types, despite everyone being unique. Reflecting a message of self-empowerment, Sarah urges listeners to learn how their body reacts to nutrition and to base their diet on what works for them. Tune in to hear more about the truth behind nutrition. 

Key Points From This Episode

• How we often hear what’s nutritionally bad for us but seldom hear what’s good for us.
• The point of nutrition; knowing how to get healthy, vibrant, and flexible.
• Hear about the greased path in life, when everything seems to go your way.
• How we use the power of intention to manifest negative things in our lives.
• The truth behind the phrase, “You are what you eat.”
• Why you should eat organic, non-GMO food and avoid meat from feedlots.
• Prioritizing how our bodies react to the fuel we give it over the general advice found in books.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

As we wake up each morning, there are immediate things around us to be grateful for! Whether it just be waking up, things we sense around us as our minds become alert, or mundane yet important things like breakfast and the weather, there is no shortage of things for which to feel thankful. The more we consciously practice an attitude of gratitude for these things, the better our lives become and the opportunities that present themselves every day for this type of gratitude should not be wasted! This episode is all about how to continually approach each day with this in mind. There may be times where we could have done better, where we feel we missed the mark or that things had been different, but as you will notice, each day is another chance to live out your best life and be the person that you want to be. Sarah covers some small tactics to stay on track with this pursuit, how our lives can align in surprising ways, and how talking and writing about our gratitude is a great daily practice. Tune in to hear it all!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Things to be grateful for first thing in the morning!
• The opportunity and lessons that present themselves every day.
• Re-contextualizing everything that comes at us and the importance of positivity.
• Gratitude for the challenges and learning experiences; communicating with this in mind. 
• Small tactics for catching oneself before reacting in the wrong way.
• Surprising incidents of alignment and staying open to synchronicity.
• The attitude of gratitude — the most important tool in your toolbox!
• Finding one thing every day, no matter what, that you are grateful for. 
• Daily sharing and communicating this gratitude; so many things to list!
• Gratitude journalling and the amazing power of writing in difficult times.
• The constant practice of remaining grateful and the magical effect this has on one's life.

Tweetables:

“Today is a fantastic day. It doesn’t matter if it’s cloudy out or if I stubbed my toe on the way to the bathroom, or that I burned my toast.” — Sarah Southwell [0:00:50]

“I can tell you that if you want more good things, if you want more happiness and joy and love, then you need to see the world is a really good place and you need to be grateful that you even have a voice that allows you to speak your mind.” — Sarah Southwell [0:04:27]

“I love the challenges, I love the learning experiences. I love the teachers and the teaching moments that get thrown at me all the time.” — Sarah Southwell [0:05:17]

“I say these things to you really as kind of a reminder to myself to try and get it right but I also say them to you because hopefully you can learn from all the mistakes I make.” — Sarah Southwell [0:07:02]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

There’s a meaning behind everything that GroWise Be Well does, and today’s bonus episode is devoted to exploring the ‘why’ behind the company. Founder Sarah Southwell chats about the fateful Christmas party that inspired her to create GroWise Be Well — her purpose; to share ways of healing with the world. Sarah shares the company’s mission to teach people about its 13 powerful healing modalities before helping them figure out what works for them. Sarah then discusses GroWise Be Well’s logo. More than just a pretty picture, the logo represents the tree of life and it is filled with rich symbolism. As each symbol connects with a different healing modality, Sarah talks through each of them, providing context for each healing practice. From crystal healing and mindfulness to herbal arts, GroWise Be Well offers a wide scope of offerings. Listen to this episode to hear more about their mission and how they can help empower you through their healing modalities. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah shares the origin story for GroWise Be Well and the knowledge gap that she fills.
• GroWise Be Well’s purpose; to help people access different modalities of healing.
• Why some of Sarah’s friends think that she’s running a philanthropic organization. 
• How each symbol on the GroWise Be Well logo represents a different healing modality. 
• GrowWise Be Well’s efforts in building a scalable school curriculum.  
• How everything that GroWise Be Well does has a deeper meaning behind it.

Tweetables:

“The root of GroWise Be Well is to raise the energetic frequency of humanity. And we do that by helping you raise your energetic frequency.” — Sarah Southwell [0:02:49]

“The world is ready for a revolution in education. Our curriculum answers that call by empowering children to be their best in mind, spirit, and body.” — Sarah Southwell [0:16:00]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

VitaJuwel

Rosemary Gladstar 

Building on a previous episode’s theme, today the GroWise Be Well team talks about how they stay in the ‘slipstream of intention’, along with their unique strategies to create the world that they want to live in. With so many wonderful apps out there, we begin the conversation by recommending the app Melly, a delightful focus and relaxation app starring pandas. After chatting about meditation, we highlight how journaling can help you organize your thoughts and express your feelings. While talking about feelings of sadness, anger, or a sense of injustice, the team acknowledges the need to continually work at ‘catching our emotions’ so that we don’t become overwhelmed. Other tools that the team touches on include nature therapy, exercise, acupuncture, chromotherapy, essential oils, and how crystals help cleanse your energetic field. From the rich symbolism of tarot cards to looking to astrology and the stars to help you align your goals, they then discuss the role of divination in their lives. Near the end of the episode, Sarah shares the analogy that life is like a surfboard. Tune in to hear more from the collective wisdom of the GroWise Be Well team.  

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah welcomes Kayli, Amanda, Lindsay, Sasha, and Paige back.  
• Using meditation apps like Melly to maintain a sense of calm. 
• Organizing your mind by keeping a journal; there’s nothing like the feeling of pencil on paper. 
• Keeping different journals for different purposes; e.g. spirit guide or gratitude journals. 
• Catching your emotions so that anger or sadness doesn’t enter your stream of intention.
• Our ability to be our best selves and to learn from the past without being defined by it. 
• Finding peace in the outdoors and through physical activity. 
• How different words have different frequencies and how this led to an office in-joke. 
• Cleansing your energetic field with essential oils and crystals like selenite.
• Sasha talks about the bliss of her family’s lavender farm.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

GroWise Be Well Episode 3 on Stitcher

GroWise Be Well Episode 3 on Apple Podcasts

Melly for iOS

Selenite Crystals

Peppermint Oil

Vetiver Oil

Melissa Oil

Frankincense 

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Springhill Acres Instagram

Chamomile Oil

Rose Quartz

Amethyst 

Cafe Astrology

TimePassages iOS

Time Passages Android

We all feel compelled by the mass consciousness to watch too much news or get sucked into Facebook. While it’s good to check-in with the world, it’s easy to be led astray and begin focusing too much on ‘what is’ instead of creating the world that we want. In today’s episode, GroWise Be Well founder Sarah Southwell opens up about the anger that she’s felt in the last week and what she did to ground herself again. A key theme of this episode, Sarah explains that when you’re focused on fighting something, you end up generating negative, or, low-frequency emotions and thoughts. This gets in the way of living a joyful life. Sarah uses the analogy that we can get stuck in the “Swamp of Sadness” and she talks about the tools that you can use to pull yourself out of the muck. Importantly, Sarah emphasizes how much control we have to shape our mindsets, and through that, how much we can do to shape the world and make it a better place. After all, we’re all in this together. Tune in and hear more of Sarah’s thoughts on changing the world through love, beauty, kindness, and gratitude. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah opens up about events of the past week that left her shaking. 
• Why we need to stop focusing on ‘what is’ and instead create the world that we want. 
• What happens to your focus when you feel angry and you want to fight against something. 
• Falling into the “Swamps of Sadness” and then pulling yourself out again. 
• Sarah’s life mission to raise the energetic frequency of humanity.  
• The lie that nothing in the world changes and that we can’t change ourselves. 
• A call to listeners; focus on the positive and love people instead of fighting them.
• The strength that comes from sticking to your truth and controlling your compulsions.
• Using tools from The Secret and The Power of Intention to stay positive. 
• Low-frequency versus high-frequency thoughts and changing the world through positive thinking.

Tweetables:

“I’m not here and you’re not here to get sucked into what ‘is’. We’re here on this planet, at this moment to create the world we want.” — Sarah Southwell [0:03:08]

“Every day that the sun rises, we get to be the person that we want to be.” — Sarah Southwell [0:07:36]

“What we think about, we bring about. If we join together and think about love, acceptance, celebration, beauty, kindness, and gratitude, then our world’s gonna change and we’re gonna feel it.” — Sarah Southwell [0:13:36]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

The NeverEnding Story

Dr. Wayne Dyer

The Power of Intention

The Secret

The power behind intention is that when something comes in front of you and onto your path, you are forced to evaluate it and think about it before choosing your course of action. Today on the show we talk about my journey of becoming a farmer in Montana. I believe that the universe presented this wonderful idea of creating a life where my children can live on a farm, where we all eat healthy foods and grow stronger and more vibrant. During this episode, I share all about the importance of researching food and how food affects us. We talk permaculture and farm design, I share my thoughts on raw milk, what kind of milk we drink, and how you can incorporate farm-fresh living into your daily lives — even while living in the city! Stay tuned for some great stories from my personal experience of becoming a farmer in Montana!

Key Points From This Episode:

• We go back in time and I share how I became a farmer in Montana.
• How I got into researching food and how it affects us in our daily lives.
• How we wanted to make a change in our food industry and share awareness.
• Permaculture and how we utilized this concept when designing our farm.
• Methylation gene and how raw milk could potentially help my autism spectrum son.
• The difference between goat’s milk and cow’s milk and the benefits thereof.
• How I make sure the goat’s milk doesn’t taste “goaty.”
• Why there’s no need to be afraid of raw milk and how to handle it properly.
• How you can incorporate farm-fresh living into your current life.
• How changing lifestyles and food intake has changed the lives of my boys. 

Tweetables:

“If we really believed that changing what we put in our bodies would affect our health in such a dramatic way, then we felt that we had no other course of action to take. We had to “walk the walk so we could talk the talk.”.” — Sarah Southwell [0:04:30]

“Goat’s cellular structure of goat milk is the most similar to human milk. It is easier for our bodies to assimilate it, our bodies don’t assimilate cow’s milk well because the fat molecule is too large, that is why so many people are lactose intolerant because the body, our human body sees it as a foreign object because it doesn’t process properly in our bodies, the fat molecule is too big.” — Sarah Southwell [0:11:00]

“Eat farm-fresh food for the farmer, for you, and for everyone around you.” — Sarah Southwell [0:23:32]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

Intention is one of our greatest gifts; through it we connect to Source and shape our lives as well as the world for the better. Today’s episode is all about the power of intention and Sarah tells the amazing story of how she first connected to it, the role it plays in her life today, and what we can all do to tap into it as well. We hear about two struggles Sarah went through and how they led her to different sources of knowledge. She was able to draw from this wisdom and learn about curating thought through intention, as well as manifesting reality through thought. We learn more about Sarah’s practice of intentionality – what she does to keep track of her thoughts and put them out into the universe as well as receive its responses. Sarah shows us how we can tap into the power of intention too, and how our lives will be flooded with higher frequency emotions and thoughts, which through the power of manifestation will begin to shape our lives in absolutely real ways. The best part is that the more intentional we each become, the more we communally manifest higher frequencies and shape the world together! The path to intentionality is not easy though, and we hear from Sarah how it is an ongoing journey with stumbling blocks and challenges, but these too can be seen as their gifts to be grateful for. So listen in today and learn all about how to become the artist of your own life by connecting with your intention!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to the power of intention, a fundamental force far greater than desire.
• Sarah’s story of psychological strain while going cold turkey from speed withdrawals in 2002.
• How Sarah learned the power of intention and manifestation during this withdrawal.
• Sarah’s realization that she was the artist of her life after watching The Secret in 2006.
• Recommendations for different authors that write about mindfulness and intention.
• An imploration from Sarah for us to use the power of intention to shape our lives.
• Our ability to make the world a better place by all communally practicing positive intentions.
• Insight into Sarah’s intentionality and mindfulness practice; how she connects to the universe.
• Recognizing that our mindfulness practice is a journey and appreciating the stumbling blocks.
• How to know if you are aligned with your intentions by checking in with yourself.
• The well that positive intentionality and high-frequency feelings are fueled by – the Source.

Tweetables:

“I want to talk to you today and tell you that the power of intention is so much more than a list of wishes, wants, dreams, desires.” — Sarah Southwell [0:01:00]

“What I think about, I bring about.” — Sarah Southwell [0:03:21]

“Source is beautiful and grateful and creative and kind and humble. It is not the lower frequency emotions and thoughts of anger or fear or sadness.” — Sarah Southwell [0:12:14]

“I know that when I am in that slipstream of intention, I can manifest anything I need or want in my life.” — Sarah Southwell [0:13:54]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Wayne Dyer

Eckhart Tolle

Deepak Chopra

The Secret

Rhonda Byrne

The Power of Intention