Relationships are a beautiful part of work & life—but they can also be the source of tension, confusion, and pain.

Dr. Rosie Ward guest-starred to share some wisdom on drawing healthy boundaries. Learning to show up authentically as our best selves includes a lot of things, as you’ll hear in this episode:

• Eliminating unhealthy relational patterns
• Learning how to say “no” 
• Establishing healthy behaviors (so that you can advocate for yourself)
• Considering your communication methods (i.e. when to call vs. when to text) 
• Upholding healthy boundaries 

Passive aggressiveness, ineffective communication (a.k.a. misunderstandings), and a poor understanding of ourselves all get in the way of showing up at our best… especially in difficult relationships! 

You are allowed to set boundaries that enable you to stand in your personal power. 

You are allowed to set limits in your relationships. 

You are allowed to present your best self. 

Personal accountability = personal power.

Blaming, scapegoating, and manufacturing alternate realities have become common strategies to avoid disappointment or emotional pain… but each of these coping mechanisms create a bigger personal mess to clean up later.

On the other hand, personal accountability builds self-trust and strengthens your relationships with others.

Niko Drakoulis is an expert in organizational culture transformation, and he’s guest starring to help Doctor Neha answer this question:

In today’s fast-paced world means you have to do more with less — how do we elevate our own resourcefulness as we navigate new challenges and enormous amounts of change?

When you go to the grocery store, do you know what foods to buy to optimally fuel your body?

How about which ingredients to stay away from?

Have you ever thought about how your grocery store choices affect your community, your farmers and the sustainability of the planet?

My very own functional medicine physician, Deanna Cherone, MD, is back for our final episode in this series on health and wellbeing. She’s giving us a sneak peek into the ingredients she advises people to stay away from, as well as the whole foods she incorporates regularly in her own diet, and her most popular health hacks as a holistic medical professional. 

As Deanna likes to say, the right food is the right medicine… Are you eating the right food? 

As the world moves faster by the day, having easy-to-grab snacks to get you through your busy days—is just a good idea!

Welcome back my functional medicine practitioner, Deanna Appleton for part 2 of our Optimal Wellness series.

For those of us who aren’t always the best meal planners, Deanna will share some simple and practical snacks to fuel our bodies with the energy we need to tackle the day. We also dive into the power of intermittent fasting and how to maximize your body’s detoxification processes so you can reset everyday. 

Listen in to learn a few practical strategies that will help you uncover your core draining beliefs and recover the energy you’ve lost.

Sarah Waylett w/ Dreamgarten and Doctor Neha share a vulnerable conversation around their own experiences with burnout. 

Determine where you fall on the scale from burnout to optimal wellness—and learn how to start healing! Then, you’ll be able to direct your energy toward building the life you dream of... 

When you’re feeling triggered by conflict in your high-stakes relationships, your biology goes into “protection mode.” So, it’s natural to struggle to find the right words. 

So how do you unhook from your biology and communicate effectively through stress? 

Watch Jamie-Clare build her confidence through learning some easy one-liners that YOU can use next time you don’t know what to say.

If you or someone you know is struggling with their relationship to food or experiencing a health issue and haven’t been able to solve it —functional medicine doctor, Deanna Appleton is offering you a new way of thinking:

- Protein, carbohydrates, fats, starches, and sugars—what does your body really need? - Listening to your body’s signals—what is it telling you? - Meals and recipes—where do you start? How do you simplify it?

Today, I'm live coaching a team member through 5 steps to calm your mind in moments of acute anxiety. Or as I like to call it, my “Back from the Future” Tool!

The simplest way to describe anxiety is—a failed attempt to control the future. It’s fueled by fear and the uncertainty of the unknown. Worry keeps us occupied, and away from actually feeling our emotions and healing the underlying trigger.

I promised you 5 simple steps out of anxiety... The antidote to anxiety is self-trust — let's get you there.

Let’s talk about anxiety! Anxiety is something we’ve all dealt with at one time or another. In this episode, Jamie-Clare de la Chapelle, our Community Experience Director, joins me for a live coaching session. We’re talking through all-things-anxiety:

• A new way to address everyday anxiety
• Learning to interpret to your body’s physical signals (like throat constriction, chest tightness, shortness of breath)
• The power of reconnecting to what matters most to you

Whether you struggle with chronic anxiety, have been diagnosed with a panic disorder, or are acutely experiencing a challenging circumstance (i.e. you’ve been on planet earth recently…)—your anxiety is an important way your body is communicating with you.

At its core—anxiety is a failed attempt to control the future. It’s time to build the muscle of self-trust by discovering or reconnecting to your higher purpose.

All the personal power you need to address your anxiety is within you.

How do conspiracy theories turn fact into fiction?

Spirituality, at its core, is an expansive way of thinking about the world and the interconnections between us—and it usually takes a leap of faith to step outside the world we can see into the mystery.

While a conspiracy might resemble the truth—how can you tell when that’s been amplified and distorted by fear, insecurity and trauma into a narrative that is destructive?

It’s easy to channel our fears about the government, a corporation or certain people who we distrust, from a single comment or action into a nearly mythological exaggeration and sinister plot.

Exercising your self-trust and finding people worthy of building  relationships with can help you learn to discern truth more easily!

Let’s learn the art of discernment together…