Join Emily as she welcomes guest, Ken Kaplan, to the podcast. Emily and Ken discuss Ken's journey to founding Quantum Wellness, his discovery of float therapy, the benefits of float therapy, hot and cold therapy, what it means to practice self care and why it is important, and more.

Ken Kaplan is the founder and owner of Quantum Wellness, a holistic wellness center located in the historic village of Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Quantum Wellness is a sanctuary where clients come to transform and feel better about themselves. The wellness center offers a variety of services including floatation therapy, massage, reiki, acupuncture, cryotherapy, infrared sauna therapy, holistic facials and many engaging and transformative workshops.  Quantum Wellness is a sort of “east meets west” healing center that combines current science-based treatments with more ancient modalities. This combination of services is a reflection of Ken’s own journey. In addition to creating the wellness center, Ken has been a practicing corporate lawyer for over 30 years and has spent 15 years learning “modern shamanic” techniques to improve how we live and relate to others. 

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBody Green. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

They explore:

- Ken's journey to founding Quantum Wellness

- what is float therapy, what are the benefits, and why should we all try it

- why is float therapy an experience unlike what we find in our day to day

- what is hot and cold therapy, including sauna and cryotherapy, and its benefits

- self care and it's value in a stressful world

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Join Emily as she explores three different myths that impacted her wellness journey. Emily discusses each myth in detail to expose why it's problematic, how it took control of her health at one point in time, alternate perspectives in relation to each myth and more. Emily showcases how diet culture and the food industry promote these myths, how they become embedded in our wellness, and what to do about it.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBody Green. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- why calories are largely unimportant in relation to health

- why 'dairy free' and similar terms can be detrimental and deceiving to health

- why a well balanced relationship with movement is essential to weight loss and more

- how each myth dictated Emily's wellness journey

- how Emily's viewpoint around health has changed in retrospect as a result of these myths

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Join Emily as she explores how her relationship with alcohol has changed over the years. Emily details her journey with alcohol, how it's changed in the last few years, her perspective on how alcohol use has been normalized within our culture, the impact of alcohol on your health, and more. Emily gets raw and real in this episode as she highlights how alcohol used to play a role in her life and now how it impacts her physical and mental health.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- how alcohol impacts your health

- her own journey with alcohol and how it's changed over the years

- how alcohol fits into a balanced lifestyle

- what the research says about moderation

- alternate perspectives on alcohol in our normalized world

- how to examine your relationship with alcohol in a healthful, balanced way

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Join Emily as she is joined by Vicky Viola, Certified Nutrition Coach and Fertility Awareness Educator, as they explore all areas of women's hormonal health: birth control and post birth control syndrome, premenstrual syndrome and how we've culturally normalized these symptoms, fertility and why infertility is so prominent, cycle syncing and understanding a woman's cycle, and more. Vicky and Emily highlight the importance of understanding one's cycle and letting it be your guide to whole body health.

Vicky Viola is a Certified Nutrition Coach and Fertility Awareness Educator from NJ. Helping and educating people has always been her passion as she has served many roles in this area including teacher, coach, mentor, which have all brought her to where she is today. In her online nutrition and FAM coaching practice, she helps women learn about their menstrual cycle and gain insight into their own nutrition habits so that they can support the phases of their cycle and optimize their fertility.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also working towards completing her Functional Nutrition Certification through MindBody Green. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

They explore:

- each phase in a woman's menstrual cycle

- why cycle syncing may not work for all individuals

- what's wrong with hormonal birth control and the impact it can have on long term health

- why your period is your 'monthly report card'

- fertility and why rates of infertility seem to be increasing

- what your hormones say about you

- the horrors PMS and how we've normalized it as a society

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Join Emily as she explores her personal journey navigating health anxiety as she experienced health issues that no doctor could offer a solution for. Emily dives into what health anxiety looks like and how it impacted her life over the course of several months, further exacerbating her symptoms and distracting her from life and responsibilities. Emily discusses her health journey over the past year, including her different obstacles, her experience with Western healthcare, and more.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- what is health anxiety

- Emily's health journey driven and worsened by health anxiety

- how to navigate health anxiety more productively

- how the medical system impacted her health anxiety

- how Emily's experience impacted her identity and philosophy as a coach

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Join Emily as she is joined by psychiatrist, Dr. Michael Gentile, to discuss his work in the mental health field, his use as food as medicine for mental health, and cutting edge treatments for mental health that he foresees becoming widely used in our healthcare system in the years to come. Dr. Gentile implements a whole body approach to mental health - considering all factors of his patients in determining their care. Dr. Gentile's blends holistic wellness with psychiatric care to support his patients and their journeys.

Dr. Michael Gentile graduated from Georgetown University undergraduate and SUNY Downstate Medical School. He trained in hospitals in surgery, medicine and neurology for a short time before completing his full psychiatric training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where I received extra training, a fellowship, in psychopharmacology and child adolescent psychiatry. In his practice, he has worked in all areas of mental health with an emphasis on the psycho-medical-legal "forensic" field having worked for child protective services of New Jersey for 13 years where I observed an unmet need for the treatment of trauma-PTSD which led me to the promise of medical marijuana, ketamine and psychedelics as potential treatment.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert, through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

They explore

- cutting edge treatment to mental health care including medical marijuana, intravenous ketamine, psychedelics, and more

- food as medicine and the ketogenic diet for mental health

- his use of medication in his work with patients

- the metaphysical in mental health care

- the top holistic strategies to mental health care

- mental health care in a post-pandemic world

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Join Emily as she explores the impact that the Standard American Diet, otherwise known as highly refined sugar, ultraprocessed foods, fast food, and more, is impacting our mental health. She discusses a number of reasons that taking time to choose better quality foods can have a profound impact on how we feel emotionally, and what the state of our current food system is doing to the mental health epidemic nationwide.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert, certified through MindBody Green. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- the definition of processed and ultra-processed foods

- how blood sugar is connected to mental health

- how we've normalized foods in our culture

- the impact of processed food on gut health

- sugar, sugar, and more sugar!

- how dietary trends influence us and cause more stress

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Resources mentioned in the episode:

- The Anatomy of Anxiety, Dr. Ellen Vora

- This is Your Brain on Food, Dr. Uma Naidoo

- Calm Your Mind with Food, Dr. Uma Naidoo

- Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety, Dr. Drew Ramsey

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Join Emily as she sits down with Master’s Level Licensed Clinical Therapist and Board Certified Neurofeedback Clinician, Michela Parisi, as they discuss mental health through an integrative lens. Emily and Michela share a Master's level background in mental health which contributes to a robust conversation around the deficits in mental health care, the use of neurofeedback in the mental health space, neuroplasticity, trauma, the nervous system, and more.

Michela is the owner of three mental health businesses in Denver that integrate neurofeedback and counseling to offer clients a well rounded, integrative approach to treating their mental health. She is passionate about educating clients on alternatives to medication to help reach their goals and achieve nervous system regulation. Clients who work with Michela see an average of 30-70% reduction in self reported symptom severity by the time their work is complete.  Michela describes herself as warm, engaging and direct. She does not take a cookie cutter approach to counseling and instead believes in radical honesty to confront problematic thoughts and empower clients to take control of their lives. She and her team do this through education, exposure therapy and lots of consistency!  As a seasoned therapy client herself, Michela knows what it takes to create change and how to guide clients in an effective, gentle and constructive way. In her spare time you will find her in Denver taking her dogs to the park, traveling back to her hometown near Lake Tahoe and spending time with her growing family.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- what is neurofeedback and how does it work

- why is neurofeedback effective in comparison to traditional psychotherapy

- the basics of the nervous system and how it works

- why neurofeedback is useful for trauma

- breaking the stigma around emotions for both men and women

- understanding neuroplasticity and how malleable our brains are

- lifestyle factors that influence brain health and will bolster your neurofeedback experience

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Join Emily as she explores the gut-brain connection and it's impact on mental health. Emily gives an overview of the bidirectional relationship between the gut and the brain, explores the nervous system and its impact on digestion, and offers tangible takeaways and tips to support better gut hygiene in order to feel better mentally and emotionally.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- what is the gut-brain connection

- why our mental health is contingent upon what is happening in the gut

- Leaky Gut, dysbiosis, and what this means for the body

- the enteric nervous system, our fight or flight, and more

- chronic stress and its impact on the gut

- good gut hygiene practices to support better quality mental health

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Join Emily as she explores the NINE influences that can generate symptoms of anxiety and what to do about them. Emily touches on the concept of 'false anxiety,' and discusses how physiological imbalances and physical health related issues can generate an experience much like anxiety. Emily's background in mental health, coupled with her holistic approach to wellness, serves as the foundation upon which she highlights nine different driving forces of anxiety as well as tangible tips to mitigate it.

Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is also working towards completing her Functional Nutrition Certification through MindBody Green. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients. 

She explores 

- what is 'false anxiety'

- how hormonal imbalances drive up symptoms of anxiety

- how the Standard American Diet contributes to the mental health epidemic

- how social media, technology, and blue light influence how we feel

- why you need to evaluate your relationship with alcohol and caffeine

- how your blood sugar impacts your mental health

- what happens when you sleep that impacts your emotional wellness

Book recommendation: "The Anatomy of Anxiety" by Dr. Ellen Vora

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