Mettle Brain

This episode is with Dr. Nikki Arguinzongil, a naturopathic doctor in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Nikki and I discuss gut health, her experience with horrendous eczema, healing from leaky gut, and other related aspects of having a healthy microbiome. Dr. Nikki shares some inspiring words that will help you stay motivated or get motivated about your health. I ask some honest questions around the rigidity of these more restrictive diets and how we can find the middle way. 

Do we treat the people nearest and dearest to us like they matter the most? 

Today’s morning musing is a collection of questions and metaphors designed to help bring awareness to how much we may be behaving against our values.

Today's Morning Musing is about collecting and connecting to yourself. What does your internal morning sweep look like? Where is your awareness? Are you plugging into yourself or do you have displaced emotion landing on others. Today's short 12 minute musing is about owning yourself fully and how to do that. This episode promotes finding our individual infinite "okayness" and then loving others from that place. 

This episode is a Monday Morning Musing featuring M.F.T. Kelly Faust McCann. Today we discuss the relationship we each have with our bodies and how we get to know ourselves. Kelly shares her ideas of thinking of our bodies as separate from ourselves. She shares that by giving your body a name it will become easier to listen to it. What does Shelby need? For example, what does Rose, Spike, or Doug need? Does Spike need to go for a run?  We discuss how easy it is to ignore the subtle pleas from our bodies. Kelly shares that if we can name our bodies and begin to talk to them we will find a source of great clarity- for we all have the answers within us.  

Lesa Vander Bie is an artist and psychotherapist in the Laguna, Newport Beach area. In this episode we discuss how to develop resilience in ourselves. Lesa shares some profound insights about what gets in the way of sustaining true resilience. Lesa shares her insight on recovery from compassion fatigue/burn out/loss of self. Lesa started noticing that something was off after a series of hard experiences and despite her efforts couldn’t quite get that same resilience back. Throughout this episode Lesa shares how she was able to heal that compassion fatigue and regain her full capacity. Lesa has crossed paths with many people silently suffering through the same reality. For that reason, Lesa is speaking about what she’s observed and believes about bouncing back when you suddenly find yourself unable to. 

In celebration of Mettle Brain's one year anniversary, I am releasing one of my earliest podcasts, re-produced in it's raw form. This episode is with Summer Myers. Summer is an art therapist and has become an expert at seeing the inner landscape of our lives. She shares how we can create more joy in our lives through creativity. Summer explains that creativity is a human drive, like hunger or even a sex drive, and without satiating it we will become sick, as it is essential that we reflect our internal experience. 

Jessica Bragado is a health practitioner formally trained in Holographic Kinetics, an Australian Aboriginal healing modality. Although Jessica primarily leans on her gifts working with spirit to address issues either trapped in the body or in the greater energy field of her patients. Jessica has a diverse clientele including Veterans and children. Jessica was raised in the Bible Belt and speaks beautifully of the balance required using her gifts in such a conservative part of the country.  Jessica has been communicating with spirits since she was a small child, i.e. seeing deceased ancestors of strangers and/or medical issues. Jessica shares some of the knowledge she's gathered being a practitioner including how to get in touch with your own spirit and how to rid yourself of that which may not be serving you. Throughout our conversation Jessica touches on the power of the mind, and the stories we reinforce. Jessica shares a few personal experiences while using her gifts and gives some interesting hypotheticals on people suffering with migraines, social anxiety, and personality disorders.  

This episode is part of my monthly series, "Morning Musings" which means you are listening to me, Heather Miller.  In the future if you like these short 10 minute episodes, just look for M.M in the title of the podcast and you will know whether or not it's a Morning Musing. Today I discuss one of my favorite messages on love that J.K. Rowling weaves into the book, "Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix." I finished this with my kids last week on a camping trip. Through her characters, Rowling explains that it's your capacity to love that is your greatest gift, and that it is this very gift that will bring suffering. This pain is part of being human. Truthfully, I felt so overcome with emotion. I can't remember the last time I have cried from such a deep place. I wanted to share this beautiful message. I encourage anyone who doubts their inherent goodness to listen to this episode. Sometimes we get flipped on our heads and forget who we are, our pain can help lead us back to recgonize what that is.