The Autoimmune Hour

Did you know that the state of our world has everything to do with our relationship with our Mother? That profound question from this week’s guest, Kerri Hummingbird, intrigued me…

In this encore episode, Kerri and I chat about her best-selling book “Love Is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound.” It is an intriguing, insightful look at how the Mother Wound can unknowingly direct our decisions.

She offers actionable steps each of us can take to support and change ourselves, our families, and our world, such as

• How to uncover shadow those decisions that are keeping you stuck

• Tips for healing a Mother Wound

• Ways to support ourselves and others in creating lasting harmony within 
and so much more.

About our Guest: Kerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide and host of Soul Nectar Show is the #1 internationally best-selling author of “The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama” and the award-winning best-selling book “Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love” which describes the early years of her spiritual awakening. Kerri inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with authenticity, passion, and purpose that positively impacts others. She catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom and her new best-selling book is called “Love Is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound” carries on that tradition. It can be found at www.motherwoundbook.com.

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In this episode, I catch up with patient advocate and friend Kristal Kent. It’s a free-flowing conversation we recently had about our best learnings from our wellness journey to thrivers and advocacy. Just some of what we chat about is:
• The power of sharing stories of ‘invisible illness’
• How to talk about your diagnosis
• Your diagnosis is not your identity
• Uncovering medical ‘gaslighting’
• Inexpensive wellness and well-being hacks and more…

Our guest: Kristal Kent is an Army Veteran Living with Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Degenerative Disc Disease, and other Chronic Illnesses and Chronic Pain Conditions. Kristal advocates on behalf of the Fibromyalgia and Veteran Communities, focusing on Awareness, Education, and Legislative Advocacy initiatives. Kristal's advocacy work has been recognized Nationally and Internationally. Kristal is the founder of The Fibromyalgia Pain Chronicles and Veteran Voice For Fibromyalgia and she currently volunteers as a Board of Trustee for the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America and the Cleveland Clinic Patient Panel. Kristal is also a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine and Savvy Coop and previously served on the WEGO Health Patient Leader Advisory Board.  Learn more about Kristal and her powerful work at https://www.facebook.com/FibroPainChronicles/

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All too often, a medical diagnosis(es) will impact life successes. In this week’s episode, we welcome Simone Giangiordano, better known as Simone G, a lifestyle and business coach for those with health challenges. Through training entrepreneurship, Simone brings success and hope to those with visible and invisible health challenges. You’ll discover what she’s learned along the way, including
• How entrepreneurs with health challenges build thriving businesses,
• How to manage a business alongside illnesses and or injuries,
• Why the courage to say “I CAN’T” will set you free,
• How to overcome societal and cultural norms, including misconceptions and the stigma around chronic health issues, plus much more... 

More about our guest: Simone Giangiordano’s transition from a corporate career to entrepreneurship resulted from her health challenges. As she figured out how to manage a business alongside several illnesses, injuries, and caregiving for her father, she learned what matters most — the legacy we will leave and the love we share. 

Those early struggles gave her the life and business lessons and courage to create the ‘Building Balance to Empower’ programs. Today, she guides others struggling with compromised health in building a business and create a lifestyle that supports their work and well-being. Her signature program, ‘The Power of I Can’t®,’ alongside her business coaching, helps her clients transform their lives, businesses, and well-being. Learn more at www.SimoneG.net and www.BalanceUpCommunity.com

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In this episode, we chat with natural health expert Elizabeth Yarnell ND. She is also a patented inventor and multi-passionate entrepreneur focusing on chronic inflammation, how it influences our bodies and our lives, and overcoming it...

She shares her personal MS recovery story and many of the techniques and tips she has learned on what has now become her life mission. She now runs a nationwide food therapy clinic to help people discover the specific foods that not only taste good but make them feel good, too, while reducing inflammation. She also shares
• The role that food sensitivities play in inflammation
• What are food sensitivities, and how you can become allergic to even 'healthy' food
• The connection between diet, lifestyle, and autoimmune symptoms
• Uncovering other causes of inflammation plus so much more...

More about our guest:  Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 30, Elizabeth Yarnell has spent the past 20 years studying how to manage autoimmunity naturally as a traditional naturopath. She’s worked with hundreds of MS and other autoimmune sufferers in her nationwide clinic, using unique, personalized natural therapies to help them slow or even reverse the course of their disease.  

Her latest venture is the “Holistic Health and Wellness Collective,” an online hub for seekers of natural methods for health and healing to find and meet new and different practitioners of complementary and alternative healing modalities. She’s a TEDx speaker, award-winning author whose cookbook has sold more than 60,000 copies, a patented inventor. She has been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS and Good Housekeeping, Health, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and many other outlets.  Learn more at www.elizabethyarnell.com and www.holistichealthandwellnesscollective.com

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In this episode, we welcome Life and Business Coach and author of 'The BEING Zone' and its companion, 'The BEING Journal,' Marla Williams. Marla has transformed her life from one of stress, overwhelm, and illness into a life she loves.

She created 'The BEING Zone System' and has changed the lives of over 1200 clients. And, here she shares several of her favorite techniques and tips and strategies for well-being she’s learned along the way, including
• How and when to reevaluate time, boundaries, and relationships,
• How the neural pathways and the voices in our head interact,
• Managing our energy and tools to reset and refresh,
• Intention and success strategies plus much more…

More about our guest: Marla Williams started her career as an intuitive pioneering visionary who has had tremendous success as a key leader in helping create a culture for a $12 million company and help grow it into a global corporation. Yet dealing with ongoing severe health issues resulting from pushing herself too hard and being in a continual stress state was the impetus for her to remake her life.

She healed herself when the medical community didn’t have answers. She has stayed in this healthier state for 20 years now and has taken her hands-on experiences and put them into a system to help others -- the result is her book and training program of the same name, ‘The BEING Zone.’ Her goal and passion are to reach as many people as possible with her life-changing and life optimizing tools.

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In this episode, we welcome Therese Rosenblatt, Ph.D., psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author in private practice in New York. We chat about her new book, How Are You? Connection in a Virtual Age, published by Rosetta Books, on adapting to the ‘new’ normal, including transitioning back into the larger community. In addition to transitioning out of the pandemic, we chat about:
 • How quarantine has changed relationships with family and friends,
 • The effects of loneliness and isolation
 • Finding meaning and guidance during this time of crisis
 • How all-virtual communication has changed the nature of communication
• And, what she has learned as a therapist during the pandemic


More about our Guest: Therese Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is on the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy faculty and is Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Yeshiva University and Pace University in New York. She also writes and presents about various topics in Psychology.

Since the pandemic, she has been running workshops and speaking on the subject of life challenges and emotional health during the pandemic, plus the changing needs of virtual therapy practice. Recent publications include ‘The Analyst’s Illness From the Perspectives of Analyst and Patient,’ a chapter in What Happens When the Analyst Dies: Unexpected Terminations in Psychoanalysis, published by Routledge, July 2019; and The Voice of the Analyst: Narratives on Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity, co-edited and authored with Linda Hillman, published by Routledge in September 2017. And, her latest book can be found online: How Are You? Connection in a Virtual Age.  


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All too often, thoughts, emotions, self-judgments, anxieties, worries, or even the actions of others can knock us off-balance and create stress and strife. All are well-known for creating turmoil, raising our physical stress responses, and in turn playing havoc with our well-being.

Author Michael Goddart joins us to talk about his new book: 'A New Now: Your Guide to Mastering Wisdom Daily, Achieving Equilibrium, and Empowering Your Nobler Self.' He shares with us his journey in overcoming ill health and ways to
• Return to equilibrium if you are feeling mentally besieged
• Discover your purpose and create joy regardless of your diagnosis
• Allow 'things' to arrive on their own time
• Know the difference between your mind and your higher
• Tap into that reservoir of awareness that provides greater wisdom, clarity, peace of mind, enhanced intuition, positive and purposeful living, and meaningful engagement in the world without struggle and more.

Michael Goddart has been a seeker of wisdom from the age of 10. Meditating since his teens and for more than two hours a day, starting at 21, Goddart has also been heightening his sense of knowing and accessing his soul consciousness for over three decades. The winner of four book awards for his book 'In Search of Lost Lives,' his new book 'A New Now' brings forth a pathway to infinite awareness and sustainable equilibrium accessible and practical for anyone. Learn more at www.Goddart.com

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You know how hearing a favorite song can bring a smile to your face? Or singing along will bring back happy memories? In this week’s episode, Sharon Carne, founder of Sound Wellness, shares how sound and music are a holistic well-being modality that helps bring the body, mind, emotions, and spirit back into harmony. And through the strategic and trained use of various instruments, including crystal bowls, Tibetan healing bowls, tuning forks, bells, chanting, voice, and more, you can reduce stress, create focus, and feel energized.

Sharon also shares how the vibration of sound can help ‘tune’ you just as you would tune a fine instrument plus
• How and why chanting relieves stress and releases emotion
• How our nervous system response to sound can create a sense of well-being
• How vibration and sound improve mood and has been known to relieve physical symptoms such as muscle tension and more....

More about our guest expert: Sharon Carne B.Mus., M.F.A., RMT founder of Sound Wellness, has felt the love of music for most of her life. After falling in love with the Classical guitar in her teens and having earned her Bachelor of Music, and Master of Fine Arts degrees, Sharon joined the Conservatory faculty at Mount Royal University in 1988.

Sharon’s intense curiosity about the healing nature of sound led to intense personal research and ultimately her study with two of the field’s pioneers, Jonathan Goldman and Tom Kenyon. Sharon is a certified Sound Healer, a certified Reiki Master, and an Acutonics Practitioner.

She is the author of “Listen From the Inside Out,” has produced eight CDs, including “Transmutation, Shed the Negative,” “Woodland Song,” and “Blissful Chimes,” and a series of DVDs.

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Three Brains? Isn't one more than enough? Well, science now says we have three brains – the one in our HEAD, our HEART, and our GUT. Our guest Savio P. Clemente, NBC-HWC, ACC, shares how he overcame cancer and now helps others overcome the confusion of a life-changing diagnosis and gain clarity by using all three of our brains.

Besides being a Board Certified Wellness Coach and a stage 3 cancer survivor, Savio is a podcaster and founder of The Human Resolve LLC. In this episode, Savio shares how harnessing the three brains, plus two skills he cultivated in his recovery: open-mindedness and knowing his 'why' were part of the keys to his successful and amazing four-month recovery. He also shares how to   

• Be present for and with yourself and the healing power of 'the now.'
• Move beyond auto-pilot and take charge of your healing.
• Treat your body as a stranger for greater success.
• Stop living in your head and your emotions, plus much more...

About our Guest: Savio Clemente, NBC-HWC, ACC, is the founder of The Human Resolve LLC, where he inspires health and wellness seekers to find meaning in the "why" and cultivate resilience in their mindset. Join his newsletter (https://newsletter.thehumanresolve.com) to receive weekly secrets from living more thoughtful by feeding your "three brains" - head, heart, and gut.

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This week we welcome back to The Autoimmune Hour Roberta Mittman, health and wellness expert, licensed acupuncturist, author, speaker, and founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York City. She's here to share her thoughts with us on a wide range of questions we have about ways to create a successful spring and summer as we re-emerge from recent global traumas, including:

• Recovering from loss and loneliness and finding new opportunities
• Tips on getting motivated and staying focused after a crisis
• What she has learned during the pandemic and reemergence

And, I even asked that burning question, 'how do I know if it's spring allergies, a summer cold or Covid...?'

About our Guest: Roberta Mittman, the founder of the Park Ave Center for Well-being, is a dedicated alternative health care practitioner, wellness coach, speaker, author, licensed acupuncturist, and certified nutritional consultant. Roberta Mittman offers guidance to men and women worldwide to look and feel vital and unstoppable. Her magic: the perfect, holistic blend of timeless Eastern principles and cutting-edge Western information. Learn more about Roberta at www.RobertaMittman.com

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