Sparking Wholeness

Andrea Jones is a registered nurse, functional hormone coach, as well as life and health coach.

Andrea helps women with hormone imbalances experience painless, mood-free periods so they could feel like themselves again.

In this episode, we cover every topic related to supporting female hormones, and the interplay with mood regulation and menstrual cycle.

Key Topics:

- The connection between hormones and mental health

- How progesterone (or lack of it) impacts our mood

- How the oral birth control pill takes a toll on our mental health and contributes to depression and anxiety

- How to regulate hormones naturally

- How the liver plays a role in hormone support

- The prevalence of estrogen dominance, what it is, and how to support it

- Endometriosis and are hysterectomies the only option?

- Menstrual migraines

- Targeted nutrition for hormone health

- How to correct hormone imbalances

- Andrea’s hormone-supportive coaching programs

Follow her on Instagram at @abundantwellnesswithandrea

This episode is part personal journey, part information. Tim's story will inspire you to take control of your health in ways you've never thought of before.

Tim James is host of the Health Hero show and the founder and CEO of chemicalfreebody.com, a mission-based organization that is passionate about helping everybody ignite their highest excitement in life by putting themselves and their health first.

Tim’s journey led him to a shocking discovery which helped his friend beat cancer and transform every area of his life. Feeling charged with a duty to help others he started sharing his knowledge with anyone that would listen. This led him to producing his own chemical free food products. ‘Chemical Free Body’ was born.

Key Topics:

- Tim’s health wake up call and how he became passionate about chemicals

- Health is an inside job and the colon is not a storage tank

- Why low oxygen leads to high toxicity

- The skincare-gutcare connection

- How we are born polluted - chemicals found in baby umbilical cord blood

- The toxic world we live in and how that affects us

- How to clean up our environment

- The right supplements to support toxin-free living

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Rai Moorhead is a a Master Certified Health Coach with over 15 years of professional and personal experience with health, nutrition and fitness. She specializes in helping women reframe negative thought patterns about eating and exercise into positive affirmations. She is passionate about helping women see that true beauty is beyond the scale and the mirror.

In this episode, we cover all the tips and tricks to support busy moms and their family’s health!

Key Topics:

- Rai’s science-based approach to health

- How to make healthy habit changes

- Grocery-shopping tips

- Meal planning ideas for the whole family

- What to know about reading labels

- How to help kids enjoy healthy eating

- How to wean off fast foods

- Keys to improving sleep, which regulates all the above!

To learn more about Rai and download her “Fresh Start Grocery List,” head to caringheartshealthyliving.com

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This episode wraps up a four part series for Mental Health Awareness Month.

Eating for mental health is so much more than changing the content of the food you consume. Eating for mental health means changing the content of your thoughts toward your own body and your food.

In this episode, Erin Kerry covers how to create a healthier relationship with food after a lifetime of dieting and restriction and negative body image.

Key Topics:

- Why your thoughts toward your body matter

- How to stop treating your body like a math equation

- Physiological issues with "intuitively eating" processed food

- Important steps toward healing your relationship with food

- Ways to eat more mindfully, enjoy food, and create optimal brain health

Our microbes modulate our mood. Understanding the gut-brain axis is crucial to advocating for your mental health.

In this episode, Erin tackles the latest research in this growing field, based on dozens of published studies and publications, in order to give a comprehensive overview of how the gut and brain "talk" to each other, and how to support our mental health even better!

Key Topics:

- The five myths of mental health that were believed for years (and some still perpetuated today)

- What the "gut" is and how it's connected to the brain

- How neurotransmitters play a role in the gut-brain connection

- How the food we consume directly contributes to neurotransmitters we create

- What is enhanced intestinal permeability and why it's contributing to mental health issues

- What to do to improve your gut-brain connection

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This episode features Richard Kerry, Licensed Professional counselor and husband to Erin. In this conversation, they break down what it is like to learn of a partner's diagnosis, how to support that person without being codependent, and how to improve communication.

Key Topics:

- How Richard found out Erin had bipolar disorder and how the symptoms showed up in their early married life

- The times when Richard experienced depression, and how Erin supported him the last few years

- Signs to look out for to know your partner is struggling

- How to approach mental health when parenting together

- A practical activity to create vulnerability and trust in your relationship

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this episode is the first of many dedicated to practical tools for improving mental wellness.

Key Topics:

- The growing epidemic of mental health issues in teens

- The root causes to my own mental health issues and how I struggled to find treatment that supported my mental well-being

- The medication weaning process and how I was able to get off medication I had been on for 18 years

- The tools I used to support healing and how I continue to prioritize my mental health to prevent recurring issues

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This episode features a roundtable discussion between three experts breaking down the topic of how to create resilience in a stressed out world.

Leigh Richardson is the owner and founder of The Brain Performance Center in Dallas, Texas. She is a brain health expert and specializes in neurofeedback and neuroplasticity.

Sandra Beck is a business coach, owner of Beck Multimedia, and podcast host of Motherhood Incorporated, Coach Talk Radio, Military Mom, and Powered Up.

Key Topics:

- How the body follows the mind

- How to create balance

- What triggers stress physically and emotionally in the body

- The importance of sleep, hydration, and gratitude

- Pay attention to the body's stress cues

Elise Carter has been a student of yoga for over two decades, and a small business owner for sixteen years. She has both taught and studied with a number of inspiring yogis across the country and has accumulated additional teaching certifications in several different lineages of yoga. Elise currently holds the E-RYT 500 teaching designation, the honor given by Yoga Alliance to their most senior teachers. 

She has spent countless hours in studio (both practicing and teaching), and has developed an unquenchable thirst for all things yoga. Currently, she is the owner of beFree yoga in Tyler, Texas, where she teaches several times a week and leads yoga teacher trainings.

Our bodies tell us things about every day, but typically we wait for someone else to tell us what’s going on before we listen. In this episode, we talk about finding a way to tune into our unique body’s needs through both stillness and movement.

Key Topics:

- How to notice what’s going on in your own body

- What does listening to your body look like

- Using your body’s symptoms as information

- Deficiency vs excess: finding balance between the two

- Beneficial movement to counter our stressful modern lifestyle

- How to bring balance back to the body

- Determining the movement that is right for you

Learn more about Elise and her company at befreeyogatyler.com or on Instagram at @befreeyoga.

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Dr. Yug Varma has 10+ years of microbiome research experience including an extensive background in bio-organic chemistry, microbiology, and synthetic biology. Dr. Varma received his scientific training at several distinguished academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins University (PhD) and University of California, San Francisco. His scientific work has been published in many prestigious journals, including Nature.

Dr. Varma’s mission is to change the way we treat chronic bacterial diseases, and is working tirelessly to achieve this goal with a microbiome-based technology platform. He is passionate about promoting scientific literacy, and devotes a significant amount of time demystifying microbiome research and making the latest research accessible to the general public.

Key Topics:

- What is the microbiome?

- 99% of genetic diversity comes from protective bacteria

- The difference between the skin and gut microbiome

- How acne is affected by the skin microbiome

- The organism that people with healthy skin have

- The difference in pre, pro, and post-biotics

- How to minimize skin products and only use what is necessary

- The skincare system that supports microbial health

Head to phylabiotics.com for more information.

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