The Autoimmune Hour

This week we chat with Sara Schulting Kranz. A professional life and leadership coach, motivational speaker, and certified wilderness guide. She specializes in helping those who have suffered hardship or trauma to find forgiveness and strength through guided wilderness retreats in the Grand Canyon and the Pacific Rim.

Together, we explore how to find comfort and restoration in nature during this age of COVID. She also shares from her new book is "Walk Through This: Harness the Healing Power of Nature and Travel the Road to Forgiveness."

We also explore:
• Uncovering the real power of choice
• Ways to find what you value through nature
• Why it's important to give yourself permission to heal
• How to forgive and what forgiveness is really for
plus, so much more.

I'm sure you'll enjoy Sara as much as I do, one of Sara's favorite quotes is, "How much kinder would this world be if we could set aside our own judgments and realize no two life journeys are alike?"  Learn more at SaraSchultingKranz.com and enjoy this insightful and inspiring interview first Friday, November 27th, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast. Share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Nature

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Everyone has friendships they’ve maintained over the years. But now more than ever, it’s too easy to lose the connection you share with those you care about. After surviving a catastrophic car accident this week's guest Shari Leid was diagnosed with breast cancer that resulted in a double mastectomy in her 40s. It was at that point that Shari took stock of her life and her relationships. 

Enter 'The 50/50 Friendship Flow: Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends' Shari Leid's new memoir-meets-journal-meets-action-plan where she shares her experience of sitting down one-on-one with 50 friends over the course of one year to share the positive impact they had made in her life. 

Just a few of the topics we cover are 
• Get(ting) Rid of The BS, 
• Follow Your Dreams, 
• Simply Smile 
and one of my favorite quotes "A Roadblock is Life's Sign to Take a Detour." 

She also shared with us her Friendship Flow Challenge and her vision of her why "...it became crystal clear to me that health was a gift. By becoming healthy once again, I was given the opportunity to live each day to the fullest. I began to reflect upon and recognize the vast importance of the relationships in my life." Learn more about Shari at www.animperfectlyperfectlife.com

Join us Friday, November 20th at 7PM ET and later in a podcast for this deeply personal and fascinating interview where Shari offers a conscious path to not only maintain your friendships but to deepen those relationships. www.UnderstandingAutoimmune/Friend

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I recently caught up with my dear friend Sam Liebowitz, aka The Conscious Consultant. His new book 'Everyday Awakening: You Are More Powerful Than You Know' is the culmination of over five years of his evolutionary journey.

Sharing insights from his book, such as we are all more powerful than we know and ways to find opportunities to correct imbalances in our lives; he also shares:
• Ways to energize our whole being
• The importance of understanding the power of presence
• How the words we use create our reality and make meaning
• Why your Imagination is a powerful healing tool

Our Guest: Sam Liebowitz, known as The Conscious Consultant, is a mentor, coach, speaker, healer, serial entrepreneur, and author of the upcoming book, 'Everyday Awakening.' He has been in business since 1993 and has owned several successful businesses. His current ventures include Talking Alternative Broadcasting and Double Diamond Wellness in Manhattan. Sam has lectured in several venues in New York City, including being a featured speaker at TEDxUpperWestSide in 2016. Discover more at Everydayawakeningbook.com and TheConsciousConsultant.com

And join us at 7 PM ET Friday, November 13th and later in podcast and videocast at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Sam

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Could Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Be of Benefit?

Research with low-dose Naltrexone (LDN) shows promising results into if and how it reduces symptom severity for some people with conditions such as multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and Crohn's disease, among other diseases and health disruptions. There is also anecdotal and patient-based evidence that LDN is helpful.

Today's guest Julia Schopick is the best-selling author of 'The Power of Honest Medicine,' which features LDN success stories. In our chat, she shares the history of LDN plus

• How low dose naltrexone works
• How to find medical professionals to assess your specific issues
• What is compounding medication
• How to find out if it might work for you
• Why you should not self-prescribe and more...

About Our Guest: Julia Schopick is the best-selling author of two books: 'Honest Medicine: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases' (2011) and 'The Power of Honest Medicine: LDN, an Inexpensive Alternative to the Costly, Toxic Medications Doctors Prescribe for Autoimmune and Other Diseases' (2018). She wrote her first book because of her advocacy for her late husband, Tim Fisher, a 15-year survivor of a cancerous brain tumor. Julia's second book, The Power of Honest Medicine, with co-author Don Schwartz, is entirely about Low Dose Naltrexone for autoimmune diseases. Learn more at www.honestmedicine.com/

Listen to this insightful and helpful interview first Friday, November 6th, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast. Share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/LDN


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Sometimes it’s hard to sort out your symptoms. This week’s guest on The Autoimmune Hour, Pat Duckworth, is here to help. Pat is the Award-winning Author of ‘Hot Women, Cool Solutions; How to control menopause symptoms using mind/body techniques.’ She is also a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and specializes in helping women who are experiencing menopause symptoms.


She joins us to discuss how do we know what-is-what, sharing
• Easy techniques to relieve common symptoms such as sleeplessness, anxiety, and mood swings
• Her unique RADICAL solution for calming yourself
• Nutrition tips to ease symptoms and food sensitivities 
Plus, so much more.

About your guest: Pat Duckworth is a best-selling author, therapist, and international public speaker. She specializes in helping women at midlife, particularly those who are experiencing menopause symptoms. She is passionate about inspiring women to get the best from their lives, no matter their age. Learn more at www.PatDuckworth.com


Listen to this insightful and helpful interview first Friday, October 30, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast.


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When your child is chronically ill, it can be a daily struggle to manage their care and yours. Today’s guest, Caryn Anthony, patient advocate and author of the blog “Any Way the Wind Blows,” shares her personal experiences and insights on caregiving and grief for families raising a child with a significant medical condition, including

• Ways to encourage independence and resilience  
• How to deal with your child’s and siblings emotional needs
• The impact that a prolonged disease can have on the entire family
• How to explain long-term illness to a child and their community
• Tips to develop working partnerships with health care professionals and more...

About Caryn Anthony: Caryn Anthony shares her first-hand experience as a parent and the primary caregiver through her child’s illness and passing on the blog “Any Way the Wind Blows” published on Courageous Parents Network. (https://courageousparentsnetwork.org/) an educational platform for families and providers. Her writing has also appeared in The Huffington Post, Grown and Flown, and Modern Loss.  

Caryn serves as chair of the Patient and Family Advisory Council for Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. She is also a nonprofit consultant and executive coach working with mission-driven organizations in human services, healthcare, education, social justice, and the arts.
 
Listen to this insightful and inspiring interview first Friday, October 23, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Parent

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Feeling rested? ... Now there’s a challenge... Well, maybe not, according to this week’s guest. If having a long-term or chronic condition wasn’t stressful enough, this year seems to have piled on constant stressors that have left many of us feeling completely exhausted.

So when I heard about board-certified internal medicine doctor Saundra Dalton-Smith’s book ‘Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity,’ I knew I had to have her on the show.

In this episode of The Autoimmune Hour, Dr. Saundra shares seven types of rest she has found lacking in most lives and why a deficiency in any of these types of rest can have unfavorable effects on your health, happiness, and more... she also explains:
• why rest can no longer remain optional and why binge-watching is not resting,
• how rest goes way beyond sleep,
• the seven types of rest and why we are feeling on the edge of burnout,
and so much more

More About Our Guest: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician and has an active medical practice near Birmingham, Alabama. She is an international media resource on the mind, body, spirit connection, and featured in Prevention, MSNBC, Women’s Day, Redbook, and numerous other media outlets. 

'Sacred Rest' combines the science of rest, the spirituality of rest, and rest’s ‘gifts.’ It shows rest as something sacred, valuable, and worthy of our respect. Learn how to restore what’s daily being depleted, so you can begin living your best life. Learn more at www.ichoosemybestlife.com/

Listen to this eye-opening interview Friday, October 16th, and later in podcast and videocast. Share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Rest

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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.

Roberta shares with us how the five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal, and water — have been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to describe interactions and relationships with ourselves and others. Understanding these relationships offer ways to uncover a path to well-being that can include discovering limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors that may be keeping us stuck in un-empowered places plus so much more...

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

Listen to this fascinating chat first Friday, October 9th, at 7 PM ET and later in a podcast and share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Elements

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In this episode, we welcome author and clinical psychologist, Dr. Lise Deguire. When she was four years old, she suffered third-degree burns on two-thirds of her body due to maternal and corporate negligence.

Against all the odds, she survived the traumatic event, embarking on a journey of decades of surgeries and treatments to heal her injuries. And, she credits her survival to finding her strength and resilience. In our time together, she shares with us how to discover your self-worth and self-love plus

• Why more than ever, during this global pandemic, we need to be resilient and some steps to build our resilience skills
• How to stay grounded when life presents challenges
• Ways to transform pessimism into joyful optimism
• Why we have to let go of toxic or painful relationships and much more...

More about our guest: In her debut book, Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience From a Burn Survivor, Dr. Lise Deguire shares how she worked through the internal and external pain of her childhood to find a path towards love, health, joy, and life satisfaction.

She is the lone surviving child of gifted, unsettled, and iconoclastic parents.  After being severely burned in a fire, she spent most of her childhood in the hospital, undergoing countless surgical procedures.

Dr. Deguire attended Tufts University, graduating in 1985, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.  She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Hahnemann/Widener University in 1990.    For the past fourteen years, she has been in solo practice in Pennington, New Jersey, and has appeared on television and radio, and is published in the Trenton Times, Grown & Flown.com, and Medium.com. Dr. Deguire writes a blog about psychological resilience issues and has become a national keynote speaker.

Listen to this intriguing chat first Friday, September 25, at 7PM ET and later in podcast and videocast. And share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Flashback

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Our guest, internationally known hypnotherapist Daniel Olexa, says, “yes.” Bringing to us his 30 plus years of professional problem solving through hypnotherapy and coaching, he shows us how we can change our story to achieve life successes.

Daniel’s premise is, “We are nothing more than the stories we tell about who we are. We are the embodiment of those stories. Change your story, change what you believe about who you are and what you deserve, and you will create a new life experience.”

In this episode, Daniel shares with us
• The familiar stories we tell ourselves that keep us stuck
• How our language choices stifle change
• How hypnosis can getting past blocks and limiting beliefs
• Ways to stay more present and more...

About our Guest: Daniel Olexa wants us to let our true self be seen now. He serves his clients as the Lead Facilitator/Trainer with the Certified Life Coach Institute where he shares his skills and experience with the next generation of life coaches.

He is also the co-author of two Amazon #1 Bestsellers: Practical Manifesting and A Pessimist’s Guide to Manifesting. In August 2019, he published his third book, My Two Minute Journal, which immediately became an Amazon #1 New Release. Feedspot.com and Lost Empire Herbs have recognized him as one of the Top 100 Hypnotherapy Blogs in the world. In July 2019, Daniel was honored as the Best Hypnotherapist in the Los Angeles South Bay by the Daily Breeze readers. Learn more at www.danielolexa.com/

Listen to this intriguing show and share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Hypnosis

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