Rewire The Podcast

Themes: PANS, PANDAS, Mold Illness, Homeopathy

Episode:

Have you noticed that your kids have had a behavior change? More outbursts? Melt downs? Even OCD like tendencies? It may not be OCD at all… It may be PANS, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, often linked to Mold Illness. To Talk about this today, we have Vital-Side Operations Manager, homeopathy student, and mother of 3, Lori Weir.

Lori’s 3 kids have all been affected by mold and chronic illness, specifically PANS & MCAS, ranging over the years since 2018. She has a background in psychology and is currently studying homeopathy after it played a huge part in her and her kids' healing. She is passionate about helping others see their own capability for self-healing. Listen to this episode to hear Lori’s story and learn about the signs and symptoms that may be linked to your child’s chronic illness. 

Show Notes:

- Lori’s daughter’s sudden symptoms led to a diagnosis of PANDAS after strep in 2018

- Her son’s appendix infection didn’t present like a typical infection due to PANS

- PANS symptoms can include OCD, anxiety, depression, rage, suicidal thoughts, and uncontrollable bladder which can be misdiagnosed as mentall illnesses

- Mold could be the cause for PANS in your child

- Finding mold in her shower and kitchen

- Having to throw away all their clothes due to mold in the washing machine

- Lori overcoming her fear of mold

- Lori’s sister’s HVAC system was full of mold, causing similar symptoms in her family

- Homeopathy and brain retraining with Vital-Side have helped Lori and her family heal

Resources:

- Black Friday Vital-Side Sale starting 9am November 29th-11:59pm December 5th CST for 25% off the first subscription on all Vital-Side programs & 50% off private sessions 

- Schedule a time to talk with Lori inside Vital-Side 

- Read A Mold Story blog post Mold in House? The Science, Remediation, and More

- Listen to Rewire Ep. 62 Lori Weir's Wild Healing Journey, Recovering from MCAS, POTS & Rheumatoid Arthritis

- Listen to Rewire Ep. 81 Model Regulation to Your Kids with Vital-Side Facilitator, Lori Weir

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co 

- Visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Resistance, Reframing, Overcoming Change

Episode:

What do we do when we feel resistance? It’s important to point out that ALL of us experience resistance at some point in our lives, and it seems ALWAYS to be a struggle. That said, we can reframe resistance so we can think about it from a totally new perspective and break free from old judgments or preconceived notions we’ve had about resistance. Lindsay is diving into this topic today and bringing up past personal experience and experience from Vital-Side members to meet you where you are in resistance.

Listen to this episode if you feel stuck and blocked in moving forward, but you’re ready to hear an alternative way of thinking to help combat some of the struggles you’ve experienced to move forward.

Show Notes:

- Your resistance often comes from your Limbic system’s protective mechanism

- Communicating with your Limbic system to overcome resistance

- 5 emotional stages you experience when it comes to change

- Identifying old subconscious beliefs or pathways to combat resistance 

- Implementing consistent incremental repetition to overcome change

- Exercises Lindsay uses to set up her environment for success in combating resistance 

Resources:

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Father Wounds, Familial Relationships, Healing

Episode:

How is your relationship with your father? Many people carry with them father wounds, and don’t quite know what to do with them or how to process them. In this episode, Giji Mischel Dennard discusses how to process these wounds. 

Giji’s journey began with the pivotal moment of meeting her father at the age of 17. This encounter sparked a life-long passion for understanding and fostering healthy father-child relationships. Her professional journey of over 20 years includes leading roles in multinational corporations and training thousands of professionals. She is the author of four acclaimed books where she explores themes of healing father-child relationships, unleashing personal and professional greatness, and the pursuit of passion. Listen in to hear her story and how you can begin to heal your father-child relationships. 

Show Notes:

- Giji’s first contact with her father the night before her high school graduation

-  How growing up without her father impacted her childhood

- Identity validation upon meeting her father in person for the first time

- The impacts of meeting her siblings and how each relationship differed

- Writing a manuscript with her father about their first meeting

- Creating a book of similar stories that led to her calling of helping to heal father-child relationships

- The five father archetypes 

- Giji’s relationship with her father vs with her mother

Resources:

- 2 Rewire Subscription Giveaway Instructions

      - Follow Rewire Podcast on Instagram: @rewirepodcast

      - Comment on our pinned Giveaway Post - write down ONE reason you want to start  Rewire

      - Leave a 5 star review in Apple Podcast (don’t forget to write your name and first initial or we can’t track you!)

 - Check out Giji’s workshop and book

 - Hear Lindsay’s  story about meeting her dad for the first time

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Old Belief Systems, Brain Retraining, Resilience

Show:

What would it feel like in the morning to wake up with a smile on your face… despite all the chaos and noise happening around you? What could it look like to surround yourself in a bubble of protection so that life’s situations aren’t dictating how you feel? In this episode, Lindsay dives into her 8 years of expertise in the field of brain retraining and neuroplasticity to offer very tangible steps to break the cycle of old beliefs and old patterns.

After working with thousands of people experiencing chronic stress and perfectionistic tendencies, Lindsay has come up with simple, daily solutions to break the pattern of chronic stress so that Vital-Side members can start to feel connected to themselves and their lives again. 

In this episode, you’ll learn to break patterns of old belief systems in a tangible way in order to FEEL positive emotions of happiness, joy, and love… and increase your capacity for resilience.

Show Notes:

- Examples of old belief systems and how they develop

- Protective mechanisms of the fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses

-  Using a metacognition practice to pinpoint old belief systems

- Identifying OOPSes or Overused Old Pathways Stopped

- Creating NICEs or New Inner Conscious Expressions

Resources:

- 2 Rewire Subscription Giveaway Instructions:

        - Follow Rewire Podcast on Instagram: @rewirepodcast

        - Comment on our pinned Giveaway Post - write down ONE reason you want to start Rewire

        - Leave a 5 star review in Apple Podcast (don’t forget to write your name and first initial or we can’t track you!)

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Gratitude, Self-Discovery, Rewire

Episode:

Do you struggle to find positivity in your everyday life? Today’s guest, Sohale Sizar, is the founder of Soul with the mission to illuminate the daily practice of gratitude for his rapidly growing online community. An entrepreneur since the age of nine with 15 years of dedicated practice in meditation and gratitude, Sohale is on a mission to facilitate access to one's inner light through his gratitude teachings. Listen to this episode to hear more about his company, Soul, and how to implement gratitude into your daily life. 

Show Notes:

- Sohale’s journey to becoming an entrepreneur 

- How sending daily gratitude emails led to the creation of Soul

- There are nuances to gratitude; it doesn’t have to be a state of constant bliss

- Practicing gratitude can increase overall health and positively impact how you view yourself

- Common blocks affecting the habit of gratitude

- Using Soul instead of daily journaling to build a gratitude habit 

- Tips for reclaiming your narrative

Resources:

- Sohale’s Instagram: @solightsobright

- Soul's Website & Instagram: @bringonsoul use code REWIRE30 for exclusive 30 day access

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: CIRS, Mold Illness, Brain Retraining

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Have you dealt with water damage in your house or symptoms related to mold illness? Today’s guest, Katie Nickerson, shares her mold journey and healing tools using the structure of brain retraining. Katie is a brain retraining coach, helping clients access their innate healing wisdom to rewire their brains and thrive. Integrating neuroscience, nervous system regulation, somatic tools, and parts work. After years of mystery illness and multiple diagnoses, including CIRS, CFS/ME, MCAS, chronic pain, and more, Katie's health declined despite rigorous healing protocols. Listen to this episode to hear how her turnaround came with brain retraining, which gave her the tools to rewire her brain and make a full recovery from chronic illness!

 Show Notes:

 - Feeling stuck with CIRS symptoms and discovering brain retraining as a way to heal

 - Brain retraining isn’t just a modality; it’s a process to improve the immune system to set up your body to heal

- Katie’s symptoms going unresolved after years of trying the Shoemaker protocol

- The HLA-DR gene and how it affected Katie’s approach to treatment

- Talking to a stranger at the doctor’s office led Katie to brain retraining

- Katie’s trip to Florida and how it changed her belief system on how to heal

- Healing is not linear  

Resources:

-Katie’s Instagram: @abodehealingco

-Schedule a Free Discovery Call for 1-1 Coaching

-Healing From Mold Sensitivity Course

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay's Website

-Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

-Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Identity, Spirituality, Authentic Expression

Episode:

Have you wondered what role identity plays in unlocking your success? Nora Virginia is an intuitive business coach, podcast host, and meditation & breathwork facilitator. After climbing the ladder for nearly a decade in corporate America, a few spiritual awakenings, and ugly cries in the office bathroom, she did what we’ve all imagined doing at one point - left her cushy, high-paying finance career behind to pursue her dream of being a spiritual coach and thought leader in the personal development space. Nora is obsessed with helping online coaches build six-figure online businesses organically through blending spirituality with simple, proven business strategies. Listen to this episode to learn all about Nora’s expertise.

Show Notes:

- Going off path can lead you onto the path to success

- Your identity is how you see yourself, not how others see you

- Who we believe we are impacts how we think, feel, and what actions we do or don’t take

- Common steps to shift your identity

- Common barriers people face while trying to cultivate their identity

- The key to transforming your identity is self-love and compassion, not self-sabotage or shame

- Social media only shows a part of someone’s reality, not their entire life- don’t compare yourself to them

- You don’t need to seek out things you don’t have yet; appreciate what you have right now

Resources:

- Nora’s Instagram: @iamnoravirginia and visit her website: noravirginia.com

- Listen to Nora’s Podcast: Glow Up to Blow Up

- Elevate 30 Day Trial  Use Promo Code: podcast

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co and visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide 

Themes: Insomnia, Sleep Habits, Improve Sleep Naturally

Do you suffer from insomnia? Do you have issues getting to sleep or staying asleep? Today’s guest, Devin Burke, helps exhausted insomniacs stay asleep so they can wake up with more “peace, power, and presence.” He is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, renowned sleep coach and founder of Sleep Science Academy. Devin was named “One of the Top 10 Coaches of 2023” by USA Today and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world’s top health and human performance experts. Hear his tips for identifying and improving your sleep habits.

Show Notes:

- Sleep is one of the most important tools for your health because it affects your entire life

- Your physical, mental, and emotional well-being can decrease the more sleep you lose

- You are not broken; lack of sleep is not a problem, it’s a symptom 

- Different types of insomnia and classifications on how extreme each type can be person to person

- The Three “P’s” or patterns people develop that decrease sleep

- Importance of “being” vs “doing” and allowing your body and mind to rest to let sleep happen naturally

Resources:

- Visit Sleep Science Academy: https://sleepscienceacademy.com/

- Instagram: @sleepscienceacademy 

- FREE Sleep Support Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

-Click here to get the "Release Meditation Series"

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s FREE Brain Retraining Guide

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

- Visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's FREE Masterclass

Themes: Women’s Health, Menstrual Health, Balancing Hormones

Episode:

Have you come across ALL the misconceptions about menstrual health? In this episode, Lindsay will debunk some of these myths with leading expert, Kate Morton. Kate is a dietician with a masters in human clinical nutrition. She discusses her story about facing hormonal challenges after quitting birth control. Kate’s personal experience fueled her to create Funk It Wellness, a brand dedicated to menstrual health. They provide high quality food based vitamins for hormonal balance as well as help navigate and embrace your menstrual cycle with confidence and ease. Hear her tips and tricks on what to eat and how to better manage your body during your menstrual cycle. 

Show Notes:

- Kate’s journey from quitting birth control to learning more about her menstrual cycle and hearing from other people who have had similar struggles

- Normalizing talking about menstrual cycles and women’s health

- Many women grow up not understanding what’s happening with their bodies due to lack of health education

- Top misconceptions about menstrual cycles, including having a “bad” period or painful period

- Different stages of the menstrual cycle and tips for what to eat, how to regulate caffeine intake, and what types of exercise to help balance hormones during the different stages of your cycle

- PMS and the biggest root causes

- Tracking your cycle and Kate’s favorite apps to use

Resources:

-To check out Release Meditation series, click here and use the code “release30” to be one of 30 people to claim for just $10!

- Kate’s Instagram: @carbsandkate

- Use code “rewire” for 20% off on: Funk It Wellness

- Or visit Funk It’s Instagram at: @funk.it.wellness or TikTok @funkitwellness

- Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside or TikTok: @myvitalside

- Visit Lindsay's Website

- Click here for Lindsay’s free brain retraining guide

- Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co

- Visit Cait's Website

- Click here for Cait's free masterclass

Themes: Chronic Illness, Nervous System Regulation, Mind-Body Connection, Neuroplasticity, Brain Retraining

Episode:

Do you still have questions about what brain retraining is, and how it can help alleviate your chronic physical symptoms/illness? Lindsay is joined by health practitioner Ashok Gupta to discuss reframing chronic illness, how to realistically approach brain retraining, and how his neurological research led him to the healing science of brain retraining.

Show Notes:

-Ashok describes his own struggles with chronic symptoms; how he discovered how brain retraining/neuroplasticity can help alleviate pain; setting up his first clinic and publishing a medical hypothesis 

-Discussing the nervous system’s effect on chronic symptoms; “centralized sensation”; communicating a new way of being 

-How to retrain the brain; communicating to the “generals” in your body that the “fight is over”; the importance of repetition in neuroplasticity 

-The Gupta program and how it helps clients find relief from chronic symptoms through focusing on brain retraining

-Lindsay and Ashok explains the science behind brain retraining

-How trauma is stored in the body; brain/body communication

-Finding the balance of physical changes for your health (medications, diet changes, etc) and implementing brain retraining in a serious way 

-Relearning how emotions feel in your body; standing witness to what’s going on in the brain 

-Why healing and brain retraining are lifelong experiences 

Resources:

-Follow Rewire on Instagram here

-Follow Ashok on Instagram here

-Start the Gupta program with a free trial here

-Cait’s Instagram: @caitmurphy.co 

-Click here for Cait’s FREE Masterclass

-Lindsay’s Instagram: @myvitalside

-Visit Lindsay’s Website 

*ALL the content talked about in these episodes should not be used as medical advice. These episodes are to be used for informational purposes only.