Mold Free Mom | Toxic Mold, Mold Illness, Mold Detox, Chronic Illness, Black Mold, CIRS

At one point in my mold recovery I was taking close to a hundred supplements a day. I felt like a prisoner in my own home, packing a literal suitcase of pills every time we left town. Here's the thing nobody told me: more was not better.

If you've been sick for a while, your medicine cabinet probably tells the same story mine did. In this episode I'm walking you through the supplements that actually move the needle in mold recovery, and the why behind every single one. Mold is not a one system problem. It's deeply inflammatory, it burns through the nutrients your body is desperate for, and it hits your brain, your gut, your immune system, and your nervous system all at once. When you finally understand what you're taking and why it matters, staying consistent gets so much easier, and consistency is what actually gets you results.

Key Takeaways:

• Why taking more supplements can quietly keep you stuck, and the shift that changes everything
• The simple "buckets" that finally match your supplements to every system mold is attacking
• The one brain supplement with real clinical evidence behind the fog, the word recall, and the mood
• How the cell danger response can lock your cells so almost nothing you swallow gets in
• Why melatonin does far more than help you sleep when mycotoxins are in the picture
• The gut piece most people skip, and why detoxing without it just runs you in circles

Questions this episode answers:

What supplements actually help with mold recovery?
The ones matched to every system mold attacks: magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D, a potent B complex, phosphatidylserine, fish oil, curcumin, melatonin, a spore-based probiotic, and TUDCA, each at a studied dose.

Why aren't my supplements working?
Often it's cheap or synthetic forms your body can't absorb, the wrong dose, or a cell danger response that locks your cells so almost nothing gets in.

Is taking more supplements better for mold illness?
No. More is not better. A few targeted, well dosed supplements do far more than a cabinet full of random pills.

Can melatonin help with mold toxicity?
Yes. Beyond sleep, melatonin is a potent antioxidant that helps shield your cells from mycotoxin damage and supports your brain's nightly detox.

Rooting for you,
Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold HealingSupplements

If you've ever thrown everything at your healing, binders, antifungals, parasite cleanses, the whole arsenal, and somehow ended up sicker than when you started, this episode is for you.

I sat down with Kyle Peche, and his story stopped me in my tracks because it sounded so much like mine. Kyle was the picture of health at 18, an athlete headed for medical school, and then his body collapsed into brain fog, panic attacks, food intolerances, and digestive issues so severe he could barely function. He spent years and six figures chasing answers through conventional medicine, functional medicine, and every diet you can name, and the aggressive killing and cleansing protocols he reached for first were the very things that set him back the most. What finally turned everything around was learning to heal in the right order, starting with mineral balancing and rebuilding his body from the ground up before he touched anything aggressive.

We get into why jumping straight into detox backfires for so many of us, what it actually means to prep your terrain before you kill anything, how hair tissue mineral analysis reveals what blood work keeps missing, why your liver is almost always the bottleneck in mold recovery, the WiFi connection that could have your mold producing hundreds of times more mycotoxins, and the exact order Kyle uses to take someone from barely tolerating a binder to actually getting their life back.

Key Takeaways:

• Why "gradually and then all at once" is the pattern almost every mold story quietly follows
• The detox mistake that sends type A healers backwards faster than anything else
• Why your body might be too depleted to survive the very protocol you're about to start
• What "prep your terrain" actually means, and why skipping it is keeping you stuck
• The fire and the gas leak analogy that finally explains why your body reacts to everything
• Why mineral balancing is not just supplementing whatever shows up low on a test
• What high calcium and magnesium on a hair test might really be telling you, because it's not what most people think
• The reason your blood work keeps coming back "normal" while you feel anything but
• The nightly WiFi habit that could be driving your mold to release hundreds of times more mycotoxins
• Why your liver is quietly running the entire show in mold recovery
• The hidden retroviral piece that cracks the cases where nothing else has worked
• Why chasing parasites, mold, and Lyme in the wrong order keeps you trapped in the whack a mole loop

You don't need to detox harder, you need to detox in the right order

To Healing,
Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold HealingSupplements

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Connect with Kyle Peche:

• Website: jyotimb.com
• Instagram: @kyle_peche

If you've seen all the doctors, run all the tests, swallowed all the supplements, and you're still sick and quietly starting to wonder if healing just isn't in the cards for you, this episode is for you.

Today's episode is a different one, and it's been sitting on my heart for a while. After weeks of talking with clients at every stage of their mold journey, I kept hearing the same thing over and over: exhausted, burned out, running low on hope. I've been there too. I spent over a decade lost in chronic illness and mystery symptoms before I found out mold toxicity was the real problem, and I've now recovered not once but twice. So this one is for the person at rock bottom who needs a path forward when it feels like there's nothing left to give.

I'm walking you through five things you can do right now, today, that will actually move the needle when you've done everything and nothing is working.

Key Takeaways:

• The single sentence my pastor said to me that changed the way I saw healing forever
• Why praying harder was never the thing that would move the needle, and what actually did
• The quiet mindset trap that keeps chronically ill people stuck, even when they're doing everything right
• What happened the morning after I finally stopped fighting and surrendered, that I still call a miracle
• The stranger who walked into my husband's work and unknowingly handed me the answer I'd chased for nearly ten years
• How I had one of my favorite vacations ever while I was the sickest I have ever been
• The support group mistake almost every sick person makes without realizing they're doing it
• Why the people you're taking health advice from could be the very reason you're still not better
• The reframe that lets you build a beautiful life before you are ever fully healed

It only takes one moment for your body to go from staying sick to starting to heal, so hold on to hope for that moment.

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold HealingSupplements

If you've ever hired the right people, asked the right questions, and still ended up with mold coming back (me 🙋‍♀️) — this episode is for you.

I sat down with Cristina Greenfield, founder of Conscious Healthy Home, and I walked away wishing I had known her when my family was in the thick of it. Cristina spent over 15 years as a commercial attorney before mold turned her world upside down and sent her in a direction she never saw coming. What she built on the other side of that experience is something this industry desperately needs — a bridge between what we know as homeowners and what the professionals know, because that gap is real and it is costing families their health.

We talk about what actually happens when you find mold, why removing it isn't enough if you haven't found the source, what to look for in a remediation contract, how to build the right team whether you're remediating, buying, or building from scratch, and why chasing perfection is keeping so many families stuck.

Key Takeaways:

• Why visible mold is the beginning of the investigation, not the end
• The red flags hiding in remediation contracts most families will never catch
• What "finding the source" actually means and why most inspectors aren't doing it
• Why mold keeps coming back even after a full remediation
• Why building science is not part of a mold inspector's training and what that means for your home
• How your HVAC system could be the hidden source of your mold problem
• Why homeowners and industry professionals are operating in silos and how that is failing sick families
• What you need to know before you sign a contract with a builder if you want a healthy home
• What to look for in a real estate agent if finding a healthy home is your priority
• Why bringing your full team together from the very beginning of a new build changes everything
• How Cristina's background as a commercial attorney shapes the way she advocates for mold families
• You don't need a perfect home to heal — you need the right information

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold HealingSupplements
  
  Connect with Cristina Greenfield
• Conscious Healthy Home
• Instagram

If you've ever hired the right people, asked the right questions, and still ended up with mold coming back (me 🙋‍♀️) — this episode is for you.

I sat down with Cristina Greenfield, founder of Conscious Healthy Home, and I walked away wishing I had known her when my family was in the thick of it. Cristina spent over 15 years as a commercial attorney before mold turned her world upside down and sent her in a direction she never saw coming. What she built on the other side of that experience is something this industry desperately needs — a bridge between what we know as homeowners and what the professionals know, because that gap is real and it is costing families their health.

We talk about what actually happens when you find mold, why removing it isn't enough if you haven't found the source, what to look for in a remediation contract, how to build the right team whether you're remediating, buying, or building from scratch, and why chasing perfection is keeping so many families stuck.

Key Takeaways:

• Why visible mold is the beginning of the investigation, not the end
• The red flags hiding in remediation contracts most families will never catch
• What "finding the source" actually means and why most inspectors aren't doing it
• Why mold keeps coming back even after a full remediation
• Why building science is not part of a mold inspector's training and what that means for your home
• How your HVAC system could be the hidden source of your mold problem
• Why homeowners and industry professionals are operating in silos and how that is failing sick families
• What you need to know before you sign a contract with a builder if you want a healthy home
• What to look for in a real estate agent if finding a healthy home is your priority
• Why bringing your full team together from the very beginning of a new build changes everything
• How Cristina's background as a commercial attorney shapes the way she advocates for mold families
• You don't need a perfect home to heal — you need the right information

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements

  Connect with Cristina Greenfield

• Conscious Healthy Home
• Instagram

If your hormones have been a disaster since mold, you are not imagining it and you are not just getting older. There is actually a hormone hierarchy most of us have never been taught, and mold exposure sits right at the root of why everything feels so off.

I brought Sara Moreira onto the show because her approach to hormonal dysfunction is one of the most practical and eye-opening conversations I have had on this topic. Sara is a registered nurse, FDNP, and mom of four who helps women get to the root cause of fatigue, weight loss resistance, gut issues, and hormonal chaos using a test, don't guess approach. What she shared completely reframed the way I think about mold recovery and where to actually start rebuilding.

Key Takeaways:

• Cortisol sits at the very top of the hormone hierarchy — until it is addressed, your thyroid and sex hormones cannot function properly no matter what else you do
• Standard lab work misses blood sugar dysfunction constantly because it only captures one snapshot, not the full picture of your highs and lows throughout the day
• Mineral depletion is one of the most overlooked drivers of hormonal chaos, fatigue, and weight gain — and mold exposure accelerates it
• Fixing your circadian rhythm by getting outside in natural light is one of the most powerful and underrated first steps in mold recovery
• Restricting food and pushing harder at the gym is often the worst thing a mold-sick body can do — rebuilding starts with less, not more

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements

Connect with Sara Moreira

• Hormone Health For Moms Podcast
• Website
• Instagram

This one is going to hit different if you've ever done everything "right" and still couldn't get well.

I sat down with Danielle Tarjoman, a functional health practitioner and founder of Mold Mend, and we got into the stuff that most practitioners are completely missing.

Danielle's story sounds a lot like mine — holistic, crunchy, chasing every possible answer — until mold colonization turned out to be the thing nobody had looked for. She was trained directly under Dr. Andrew Campbell, one of the foremost experts in mycotoxin illness, and what she shares in this episode is the kind of clarity that took me over a decade to find.

If you've tested negative, done the gut protocols, cleaned up your diet, and you're still not breaking through — this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways:

• Why urine mycotoxin tests regularly produce false negatives even when your body is loaded with mycotoxins internally
• How mold colonizes your sinuses, lungs, and gut — and why you can have zero symptoms in those areas and still be colonized
• Why being "crunchy" and holistic is not enough to clear mold colonization — and what actually is
• The three reasons people can't get better: environment, nervous system, and sinus colonization
• How your olfactory bulb creates a direct pathway from your sinuses straight to your brain for mycotoxins
• What a realistic treatment timeline looks like and why skipping steps turns a 6-month recovery into 18-24 months
• Why your toxic bucket doesn't refill the same way after treatment — and how maintenance keeps it that way

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements

Connect with Danielle Tarjoman:

• MoldMend
• Instagram

If your body is not healing no matter what you try, your nervous system might be the reason why. Mold illness, chronic fatigue, mystery symptoms, and unexplained chronic illness all have one thing in common that most protocols completely miss. Your brain could be stuck in a survival loop, and until you address that, no amount of supplements, binders, or detox protocols will get you well.

In this episode of Mold Free Mom I am breaking down the science of neuroplasticity and brain retraining for chronic illness. This is not woo woo. This is biology. Your brain has the ability to form new neural connections, prune old ones, and physically rewire itself from a state of fight or flight into a state of rest and digest where real healing actually happens. I share the exact programs that helped me heal, the foundational concepts behind neuroplasticity training, and 3 practical steps you can start using today for free with zero side effects.

Key Takeaways:

• Your brain is a pattern recognition organ and those patterns can be rewired at any age
• Fight or flight and healing cannot happen at the same time in the body
• Hypervigilance, rumination, sensitivity to light and sound, insomnia, and exercise intolerance are all signs your nervous system is dysregulated
• Why mold illness and chronic illness survivors are the perfect candidates for neuroplasticity and brain retraining
• The DOSE method, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins, and how to use it to interrupt a symptom spiral in minutes
• Neurons that fire together wire together and how to use that to your advantage in healing
• The two brain retraining programs I personally used to heal from mold toxicity when nothing else worked
• Why your brain does not know the difference between a real and an imagined memory and how to use that to calm your nervous system today

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Limbic System Program mentioned: Primal Trust
• Brain retraining mentioned: DNRS
• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements

When your body is deep in mold illness, the physical symptoms are only part of what you're fighting. The shame, the isolation, the feeling that God has completely gone silent while your health is falling apart and your family is watching, that is its own battle. And most people dealing with mold toxicity and chronic illness never talk about it.

In this episode I sat down with Heather O'Brien, prophetic healing coach and host of the Heal With God podcast, to talk about something I don't address enough here at Mold Free Mom: the emotional and spiritual weight that comes with mold exposure and unexplained symptoms. If you have ever felt forgotten by God in the middle of your healing journey, this one is for you.

Key Takeaways:

• Who you're talking to about your health could be the reason you're not healing
• Why shame can be just as detrimental to your health as mold exposure itself
• The four things that open the door to hearing God's voice when chronic illness has you convinced he's gone silent
• What finally shifted for me spiritually in the middle of my worst mold exposure
• Why hopelessness during mold illness is not your reality, it's the enemy's strategy

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements
  Connect with Heather O'Brien:
  heatherobryant.net
  Heal With God Podcast
  Free Monthly Prophetic Healing Workshop

A doctor once told me to remove gluten and I literally laughed at her. Then I watched my thyroid antibodies drop from over a thousand to 36 in just a few months. I never questioned food again.

Diet was one of the most powerful tools I had during my 12 years of mold illness, and in this episode I'm breaking down exactly how to use food as medicine when you're dealing with mold toxicity or chronic illness. Mycotoxins from mold exposure can prevent the gut from healing no matter how clean your diet is, which is why so many people do everything right and still don't get better. From lowering inflammation to understanding the histamine connection, what you eat can either work for your healing or silently work against it.

This isn't about perfection. It's about giving your body a fighting chance.

Key Takeaways:

• The two foods that may be silently driving your inflammation and keeping you stuck
• Why gut healing protocols can actually backfire if you're still in a moldy environment
• The surprising "healthy" foods that could be making mold symptoms worse
• Why you don't have to overhaul everything at once to start feeling better

To Healing,

Aubree

Links and Resources:

• Learn more at Mold Free Mom
• Take the Free Mold Symptom Assessment
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Mold Healing Supplements