Straight-Up Wellness

In this episode, Hollan Hawaii talks about plant based cooking and wellness:

* How Hollan chose a vegan lifestyle

* Skinny Bitch book

* Food guilt

* Giving up her old life with food

* Culinary school and food education

* Food as a gateway to self-love

* Veganizing recipes

* Eating to feel good

* Avoid eating like you're in disease

* Teaching kids and loved ones to eat well

* Losing the magic of food

* Breaking up with beliefs

* Question what food is used for

* What happens when you eat what your body doesn't need

* Body's needs for proteins

* Being a curvy woman

* Self-love to have your dream life

* Finding beauty in the smallest things

* Self-care --> Self-love --> Self respect

* Zoom in/Zoom out

* A woman's negative loop

* Mothering yourself

* "Good Food Gratitude" book

* Vegan comfort foods

* 5-day and 22-day reset

* Connecting with Hollan

In this episode, Johanna Dahlman talks about overcoming alopecia:

* Johanna's story

* Alopecia and lower immunity

* Effects of alopecia medications and treatments

* Birth control and hair loss

* Risk of allowing autoimmune to linger

* Different types of alopecia

* Naturally healing alopecia

* Listening to signs body is giving you

* Johanna's body before hair loss

* Health on the outside vs. inside

* Going outside of the textbooks

* Stress management to heal autoimmune conditions

* No magic supplement

* Whole body health for sustained healing

* "Secrets to Hair Growth and Health" book

* Johanna's 2-month program

* Fatigue and alopecia

In this episode, Dr. Breanne Kallonen talks about resetting your metabolism:

* Factors that determine metabolic rate

* What slows down metabolism

* Insulin resistance

* Thyroid health

* Problems with base reference numbers

* Rise in thyroid disease

* Stress and thyroid

* Bacteria that triggers autoimmune thyroiditis

* Molecular Mimicry

* Connection to bacteria and other chronic conditions

* Toxicity and hormonal disruption

* Nutrient deficiencies and metabolic rate

* Amino acids

* Importance of enjoying food you're eating

* Changing gut microbiome with dieting

* Introducing carbs after keto

* Thyroid function and calorie restriction

* Enzymes to support digestion

* Tests to determine how to reset metabolism

* Mindset and lifestyle toxins and weight loss resistance

* When to do a metabolic reset

* Metabolic reset process

* Tracking weight daily

* Figuring out food intolerances

* Using whole foods and supplements

* Key foundations of a metabolic reset

* Weaning off of supplements

* Risk of taking supplements you don't need

* Supporting kids' hormones

* Acid reflux

* Managing metabolic reset while cooking for a family

* Reducing inflammation in grilled meats

In this episode, Dr. Tim Zelko talks about Tickle Lipo:

* The Mirror Test

* Dr. Z's passion for helping women

* Self-image and self-empowerment

* Why the body changes so much after pregnancy

* Rise in c-sections and midsection draping

* Losing elasticity

* Why liposuction isn't the answer

* The downside of surgical tummy tucks

* Tummy tuck procedure

* The process of liposuction

* Tickle lipo

* Where fat cells go after procedure

* Cool sculpting

* Should you time lipo based on hormones?

* Patient transformations

* Types of outpatient lipo

* Difference in Tickle lipo

* When lipo goes wrong

* Tickle, Tickle Tight, Tickle Tuck

* Releasing vanity issues

In this episode, Chad Austin talks about improving your workout mindset:

* Short term goals vs long term success

* Why health and fitness isn't a priority for most people

* Mindset for improvement

* Best time of day to workout

* #1 excuse to not workout

* Balancing time while adapting to change

* Keeping consistency as a top goal

* Problems with 6-week fitness challenges

* Breaking up with the mindset of "going back to where I started"

* Focusing on the "what's next"

* Difficulty of moving into maintenance plans

* Best exercise plans for goals

* Breaking fitness plateaus

* Nutrient timing for energy and recovery

* The Fit List test

* Fitness for mental health

* The "why fuel"

* Working with a fitness coach/trainer

* The personal trainer experience

In this episode, Andrea Duchonovic talks about “breaking up” with exhaustion:

* Andrea's health journey

* Being exhausted all the time

* Spending thousands on supplements and coaches

* Health education after father's terminal diagnosis

* Sifting through the BS

* The problem with "all natural" labels

* Type of sleep vs. hours of sleep

* Seasons of exhaustion

* The 7 pillars of health

* Mindset and healing trauma

* Showing up better for the people we're serving

* 5-10 minutes per day for self care

* Asking "is this stress necessary?"

* Breathing

* Hormones and stress

* Adrenal fatigue

* Cortisol levels throughout the day

* Getting hormones checked

* Toxicity and detox

* Toxic chemicals on US skincare products

* EWG website resource for toxic products

* Dangerous detoxes

* Eating and nutrition

* Prioritizing quality foods and ingredients

* Dirty keto

* Sugar alcohols and gut issues

* Avoiding the Dirty Dozen

* Eating clean, whole foods

* Fasting

* Fasting for women

* Parasympathetic before fasting

* Gut health

* Gut-brain connection

* Foods and toxins affecting gut health

* Movement and sleep

* Sleep quality

* nighttime routine

* Movement for detoxing

* Accessing the Breaking Up With Exhaustion Master Class

In this episode, Tricia Nelson talks about ending emotional eating:

* Tricia's personal journey with emotional eating

* "Fat Head"

* Out there ideas of how to lose weight

* Healing hunger to lose 50 pounds

* Peaceful relationship with food

* Food freedom

* The spectrum of emotional eating

* Feeling the weight struggle in any sized body

* Heal Your Hunger online quiz

* Having an emotional balance with food

* Addressing emotional attachments with food

* Emotional eating vs food addiction

* Consequences of obesity as we age - physically, emotionally, spiritually

* Characteristics of emotionally eating

* Numbing effects of food

* PEP test

* Food to cover pain

* Eating to escape worries and fear

* Food as punishment

* Emotional eaters are highly sensitive

* Types of food that indicate emotional eating

* Food as a companion

* Habits that make up an emotional eater

* Nonjudgemental meditation

* Getting support to face scary feelings

* Why diets fail

* Food as a symptom

* Working with Tricia

* Healing in a community

In this episode, Dr. Steven Hotze talks about hypothyroidism and how to feel better:

* What is hypothyroidism

* How the thyroid works

* T4, T3, and iodine

* Thyroid hormone and energy

* Symptoms of thyroid issues

* Ideal body temperature

* Thyroid treatments for infertility

* PCOS and thyroid dysfunction

* Why hypothyroidism is commonly misdiagnosed

* The antidepressant epidemic

* Depression and thyroid connection

* Hormonal imbalances with age

* Bioidentical hormones

* Inaccuracy of thyroid blood tests

* Unexplained weight gain and fluoride

* "Hypothyroidism Health and Happiness" book - free copy for Straight-Up Wellness listeners when you call 281-698-8698

* "Hormones, Health, and Happiness" book

* Health built on good nutrition

* Diminish simple carbs and sugar

* Eating as whole as possible

* Importance of Vitamin C intake

* Supplementing with Vitamin D

* Building up immunity

In this episode, Dawn Renee offers holistic support for those in a caregiving role:

* Dawn's caregiver journey

* Caregiver guilt

* The Daily 10

* Becoming a caregiver for yourself

* Ridding the body and life of toxins

* Plant-based diets

* Plant-based protein sources

* Energy aids for healing

* Energy of nature to bring balance to life

* Biofield tuning

* Integrating energetic tools for self care

* Reconnecting to the power of love within ourselves

* Taking 5 minutes to re-energize

* I.C.A.R.E. journal

* Inspiring the goddess within

* Free website resources

In this episode, Thais Gibson talks about the 4 styles of attachment and how they’re impacting your life:

* The Attachment Theory

* Four styles of attachment

* Most common style of attachment

* Securely Attached

* Attachment style and self confidence

* 3 Insecure Attachment styles

* Codependency

* Making eye contact with children

* Opposite attachment styles attracting each other

* Hyper attunement and being an empath

* People pleasing attachment style

* Kate's observation on her own attachment style and early imprints

* Most important developmental years of life

* Retraining the subconscious

* Core wounds for insecure attachment styles

* The mind and the "worse case scenario"

* Learning a response to our needs

* Express feelings and feel the feelings

* Getting in tune with our needs and specific times

* Pain vs. suffering

* Reprogram stories we tell ourselves

* Trauma and survival mode

* Reenacting trauma in our own minds

* How a trigger works in the subconscious mind

* Starting steps to overcome trauma

* Using feelings for feedback