Practically Well

For the last episode of the year and the first season, we have a compilation of some of my favorite moments from the show when it comes to inspiration, self-love, growth, and transformation.  While we talk about so many different wellness themes on Practically Well, these themes are always a through line that weaves the show together. 

I treasure every interview and solo episode from this year, and I want to share my gratitude for you all for supporting the beginning of this journey with messages to bring you love, peace, and possibility for the new year to come. 

To my guests from this year--thank you for bringing your wisdom to the show, you have spread more insight and healing than you could possibly know. 

To my listeners--thank you for taking time to tune in and deepen your own healing experience, I can't wait to continue to walk this road together in the new year!

In this content packed episode, we brought Jillian Rothschild back on the show to speak to another one of her specialties--CHINESE ASTROLOGY!

In this discussion, you'll learn:

• What Chinese Astrology is 
• How it can be telling in regard to our health, wealth, and relationships 
• The concepts of intuition, free will, manifestation, and destiny when it comes to Chinese Astrology 
• How we can utilize this powerful ancient tool to get unstuck and find greater balance in all aspects of life!

Connect with Jillian:
IG: @fengshuiinmotion 
WEBSITE: www.fsinmotion.com

Balance--something we all aim for in some way in our lives.
And yet so often it feels so out of reach or overwhelming to obtain.
Why is this?

With how yang our society is, the answer can be simpler than we think--find more yin.
Find quiet moments. Nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits unapologetically. Take breaks when we need them. Focus on keeping it simple.

In today's episode, I have guest Rachel Redmond, an acupuncturist and Ayurvedic practitioner on to speak to the concept of yin building and cultivation in our everyday lives, including a focus on her online program "The Yin Way!"

With practical tips, education, and anecdotes, this information packed episode will give you all the tools you need to start slowing down, tuning in, and cultivating more yin and harmony within yourself. We all have divine potential to do this already, it just begins with taking a simple step.

Get Connected with Rachel:
IG: @rachel.e.redmond
WEBSITE: www.rachel-redmond.com

So often we talk about the idea of "getting our sh** together"--but what does this really mean?
It might mean going to school, getting a job, getting married, having kids, being financially affluent, or something totally different (or a combination or all of the above!).

But why are these things how we define having it all together?

In this episode, I chat with embodiment coach Pat Baloyi about the concept of getting our SOUL sh** together--and what it means to live fully in an embodied way, not just in the way society tells us we "should."

Connect with Pat:
Email: [email protected]
IG: @weighting_4me

When people are asked what they want out of life, most of the time they answer, "I just want to be happy." It is in our natural human condition to avoid pain, seek pleasure, and strive for happiness in every facet in our lives.

And yet, if we didn't have pain, suffering, challenge, uncertainty, and all of the other "negative" experiences in life, would we even know how to define happiness or goodness or even recognize it when it was there?

Today's wellness chat is about this and so much more--and our wonderful guest is Dr. Carly Hudson. She is a chiropractor, speaker, author, and host of the Healing Ground Movement Podcast. Through her own physical struggles from an early age that left her with numerous handicaps over the years, she learned to find strength in the struggle--and to take lessons away from her challenging experiences. With the gift of this injury, Dr. Carly has spent her life exploring how self-care impacts our mind, body, and spirit.

Connect with Dr. Carly:
Website: www.healinggroundmovement.com
Email: [email protected]
IG: @healinggroundmovement
Podcast: Healing Ground Movement with Dr. Carly Hudson, DC

Trauma can come in many forms--oftentimes we think that something horrific has to happen for it to be categorized as trauma or to feel validated in suffering from PTSD as a result. While more extreme situations and events can certainly cause trauma, there are a wide variety of other factors involved that can cause trauma in the body, mind, and spirit. In this episode, I chat with mental health counselor Stacie Boyar about just this, including:

• The definitions of trauma, how triggers show up in our day to day lives, and how to navigate them 
• Debunking the concept that something has to be "wrong" in order to seek out therapy
• The value of EMDR and therapy in general and how it can help us heal 
• Self-care techniques to keep our physical, mental, and spiritual hygiene at an optimally healthy place!

Get in Touch with Stacie:

• Website: www.namastacie.net
• IG: @namastacie_boyar
• Podcast: Namastacie 

Today, we're talking all about INTUITION with guest Nicole DiCristofaro. She is a practitioner of Intuition Medicine and combines ancient wisdom with modern science to help spiritually curious women tap into their spiritual superpowers so that they can feel more connected, centered, and confident!

In this episode, we talk about:

• What intuition is and why it's so important 
• Intuitive cues and how to start paying attention to them 
• Where connection with intuition can take us in life
• How we can start getting in touch with our intuition so that we can live our most authentic and healthy lives!

Connect with Nicole:
IG: @divineflowhealing
WEBSITE: www.divineflowhealing.com

Let's talk about SPIRITUAL HEALTH! So often when we think of wellness, we think of our physical bodies and minds, but what about our spirits? What about the energy that moves through us every day? What about our divine connection to each other and the world and our soul's purpose?

I believe that our mind, body, and spirit are all deeply connected, and when we focus on our spiritual health as well as our mental and physical, our growth in life can be endless. 

Our guest today is Whitney Schrader. She is a spiritual warrior of love. She has the gentleness of a child and the heart of a warrior that she utilizes to bring total, complete transformation to her clients and every person she encounters. 

Whitney's journey began since the day she was born. Whitney's lifelong challenges and triumphs of her journey have been her greatest inspirations and are her areas of expertise she works with her clients with: twin flame and spiritual partnerships, self-love, navigating spiritual awakening, ascension, clairsenses, toxic relationships, prescription medication, lyme disease, chronic fatigue, marijuana, alcohol, codependency, addiction, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, abuse, sexual repression and sexuality, intimacy, food, entities, mental health, shame, guilt, fear of self, and money. 

In 2017,  Whitney had a near death experience and was suddenly wide awake after going through a spontaneous twin flame kundalini awakening. This event catapulted Whitney into a deep dive of healing herself. Every aspect of Whitney's life had to surrender to the Phoenix--burning away all that no longer aligned with her highest truths and allow herself to rise from the ashes of old programs, societal conditioning, and outdated karmic patterns. 

Whitney's destiny was always to allow her tests to be her testimony and to allow her life to be an inspiration to others and an innovation of a new way of living and existing on Earth as a Human. 

She started working with natural herbalism, supplements, and homeopathy to heal her chronic lyme disease struggles. She works with the energetic components of disease, pain, pharmaceutical use, and uses nutritional detox methods to heal the entire body, mind, and spirit on all levels emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. 

Whitney uses a variety of ancient-futuristic energetic practices that blends Western and Eastern medicines. She is an intuitive chef and works to heal through the medicine of food. She is a shaman, intuitive empath, intuitive chef, life coach, reiki master, and holistic metamorphosis practitioner. 

Active imagination, visualization, inner child play, music, dance, movement, and sound are crucial to her own personal healing and the healing sessions she conducts with her clients. 

Whitney's sessions work everything from ancestral healing, inner child healing, holistic herbal remedies, quantum energy healing, dance, shamanism, and intuitive guidance. 
She is your personal spiritual cheerleader who provides a safe, comfortable, unconditional loving container to empower you on your journey. 

If you would like to schedule an appointment with Whitney, feel free to contact her at the following:

- Distant or in person energy healing session
- Intuitive card reading 
- Life coaching session 

(Best) Cell Phone: 443-812-0764
Email: [email protected]

Stress/unconscious eating--something that so many struggle with! While sometimes we understand that we're eating because we're stressed, oftentimes we don't even know why we're doing it, making it that much harder to stop. 

The good news is, there IS a reason why, and our guest on the show today (health coach Laura Folkes) takes us through why this happens AND how to break the cycle! Through detailing her own personal health journey with weight loss, habit change, and relationship with food, Laura insightfully dives into practical steps we can take starting today to facilitate deep healing and sustainable change!

For over 6 years, Laura has been transforming people’s relationships with food. Her own journey towards experiencing a truce with food and 60 pound weight loss led her to become a Certified Holistic Health Coach ensuring her clients don’t feel deprived so the journey is sustainable.

 Laura has supported over 75 clients who know what they should be eating but have a hard time sticking to it by helping them identify the familiar patterns keeping them stuck. Together they get to the bottom of why they self-sabotage and fall off track so they can eat for nourishment instead of other reasons.

 She lives in Chicago with her Aussie husband and her black cat, Katie.


Connect with Laura:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.laurabfolkes.com

So often in our society, we are told that a certain body type is ideal. We are also told to love our bodies. And SO many people struggle with this concept every day.

In today's episode, I chat with Chardet Ryel, health coach and host of the Feel Good Nakd Podcast, about why we struggle with body confidence, how to eat and move in a way that feels good for our unique bodies, and practical tips for beginning the process of transforming your body image and loving yourself unconditionally. 

Chardet Ryel is a holistic wellness coach. As a Certified Behavior Change Specialist and Non-Diet Nutritionist, she helps women discover health and confidence beyond the scale. 

Connect with Chardet:
IG: @corpaofitness 
Website: www.corpaofitness.com
Podcast: The Feel Good Nakd Podcast