The Autoimmune Hour

Our guest best Selling author Yvonne Heath, a registered nurse since 1988, became disheartened by our society’s reluctance to talk about grief. Working within many areas of healthcare, including emergency, intensive care, chemotherapy, and hospice, Yvonne has seen how not ‘talking about ‘it’ causes excessive suffering in life and at the end of life.

She took a leap of faith, left her nursing career, and now shares her message of how to transform grief and sadness with her book ‘Love Your Life to Death,’ and as a Speaker, TV and Radio host, and through social media. In addition to her crucial message of “Just Show Up,” she shares
• How to transform how we talk about grief into healing moments,
• How to escape the ‘silo of silence and suffering,’
• Graceful ways to assert yourself when others think ‘they know best,’
• Ways to defuse the fear as we ask for what we need and hold our boundaries,
plus so much more…

Grief is something we all face; diagnosis, divorce, financial stress, bullying, mental health issues, and yes, end of life. It’s all grief! Yvonne Heath’s message empowers you to live life to the fullest and how to come from your heart when the unexpected happens, including the end of life. Learn more about Yvonne and her outstanding work at www.loveyourlifetodeath.com/

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Life is meant to be enjoyed not endured is the motto of our guest Whitney Gordon-Mead. Whitney has overcome fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and burnout… Now, she’s dedicated her life to helping others avoid and recover from burnout, reclaim their passion and create the life they desire, because as she says ‘life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured!’ She will share with ways to transform our daily routines and optimize the energy we have that are easy to implement and have big pay-back including: 
• What is the ‘Burn-Out-Cycle,’
• Simple ways to take control of your symptoms,

• Why knowing your sleep deficit number is essential to restoring health,

• Ways to budget and optimize your energy to go from burn out to balance…
plus much more.
About our guest: Whitney Gordon-Mead is a Speaker, Certified Life Coach, Ordained Minister, and on track to have her Doctorate in Metaphysics by the end of 2019. She has three decades of experience researching personal growth and how we heal from within and has turned her diagnosis of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and burnout around to live her best life yet. Learn more about Whitney at https://whitneygordon-mead.com/ and listen to our engaging chat. Be sure and share this link with family and friends https://understandingautoimmune.com/Burnout

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When your doctor prescribes medication, they say something like, “It will be ready at the pharmacy, your insurance will cover it, and the pharmacist will help you understand the dosing.” Great! Yet, what about the behavioral-change prescriptions (advice) you are given, such as exercise more, eat better, and reduce stress? 

Too often, the doctor gives you behavioral-change ‘prescriptions’ and says, “Good luck. See you in 6 months.” Leaving you with thoughts like ‘well, that sounds good, but how do I start?’ Or ‘I thought I was eating properly?’ Without the right behavioral-change setting, these types of behavioral prescriptions, while well-intended, go no-where. 


Our guest has co-created a solution to ease the implementation of those behavioral-prescriptions. Elizabeth Markle, Ph.D., is co-founder of Open Source Wellness, a nonprofit place-based space offering experiential behavioral health and wellness. She shares with us this powerful wellness model designed to function as a ‘Behavioral Pharmacy.’

Open Source Wellness’ mission is community-as-medicine. They strive to leverage the power of a community to transform health outcomes by preventing and reversing chronic disease through a clinically-proven, low-cost, long-lasting behavior change program. Dr. Markle shares many of the techniques Open Source Wellness clients have implemented to create successful behavioral change, including tips on the ‘big-four’ behavioral prescriptions: 
- Exercise more
- Eat Better
- Reduce your stress
- Get some social support plus so many great implementation and success strategies for well-being….

More about our guest: Elizabeth Markle, Ph.D., is dedicated to multi-theoretical and multi-level approaches to individual and community health and healing. Her research has focused on social support, social capital, and social sustainability in the context of intentional community. Elizabeth’s current area of study and innovation is around combining clinical expertise with social entrepreneurship to create sustainable, thriving cultures of health and wellness. Learn more at www.OpenSourceWellness.org and listen to this intriguing chat with Dr. Markle on the wellness model that’s creating excellent health outcomes Friday, January 3rd, at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Markle

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Self-sabotage and negative self-talk can erode self-confidence, self-esteem, and your health. In this week’s episode, Roberta Mittman, founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York, will show us how to escape self-sabotaging behavior, how to change our internal negative messages and tips for healthy eating during this season of indulgence. She also shares how to reduce stress, focus on what’s important, and ways you can support your path to better health including:
• How to stop blaming, shaming and criticizing yourself and others.
• Ways to get rid thoughts of fairness and stop taking misguided comments to heart.
• Techniques to reduce feeling stressed and anxious at this time of year
• Nutrition tips for well-being and successful Holiday diet survival.
Plus so much more….

Roberta’s on a “quiet” revolution to help women over 40 redefine what they think their age means and spreading the word that it’s never too late to attain the life (and body) you want. She’s a dedicated alternative healthcare practitioner, health and wellness coach, international speaker, author, and licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about Roberta at www.RobertaMittman.com then join your host, Sharon Sayler, for The Autoimmune Hour
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In this episode, we welcome, Elizabeth Kipp. Elizabeth is a best-selling author, yoga-informed addiction recovery coach, stress and chronic pain management specialist, Ancestral Clearing Practitioner, Bilateral EFT/Tapping Practitioner, and Kundalini Yoga teacher.

She overcame chronic pain and addiction caused by childhood abuse and chronic health issues by acknowledging trauma and using spiritual and scientific methods to change a life-time of pain to peace. She believes she is proof that if she can heal from chronic pain, anyone can. She shares with us
• How the 80/20 rule applies to healing
• How you can accept how you feel in the moment and quickly move through pain
• What you might be doing that contributes to pain
• And what to do if you or someone you know is an ‘Olympic-level control freak’ plus so much more….

Today Kipp’s mission is to spread the word that we can heal from chronic pain—it does not have to be a life sentence. She now works to help others achieve the same healing for themselves that she experienced directly from the work she teaches. She is the author of “The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power.”

Elizabeth offers one-on-one and group sessions in stress and chronic pain management and addiction recovery, Forgiveness & Ancestral Clearing, Kundalini yoga and meditation, and conscious communication. Discover more at https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com

Listen to our life-changing chat Friday, December 20th at 7PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Kipp

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Questions? Questions, you say? I learned long ago that the smarter (and maybe older) you get you never stop having questions. And, you know you are getting smarter when you start asking better, more profound questions about more important matters - like your life.

Dr. Ganz Ferrance, the author of ‘The Me Factor© - Your Systematic Guide to Getting What the HELL You Want’ will share with us those powerful, life-changing questions plus:
• How to harness your intuition to improve your decisions dramatically
• How to uncover and remove hidden beliefs that are holding you back
• How to release both physical and mental stress
and more...

Registered Psychologist, Dr. Ganz Ferrance, is a Speaker, Author, and Coach. Since the early ’90’s Dr. Ganz has been helping individuals, couples, families, and corporations beat BURNOUT reduce their levels of stress, improve their relationships, and enjoy more success.

Dr. Ganz is known for working with the toughest of the tough, including gang bangers, hardened oil and gas workers, battle-tested CEOs and entrepreneurs, and stressed out law enforcement officers. He truly is a master at showing people in high-stress occupations no-nonsense, practical strategies to stay focused, make healthy decisions under pressure, and boost communication skills to reduce conflict during stressful situations. And what could be more high stress than recovering from an autoimmune or other long-term health issues? Find out more at www.AskDrGanz.com/

Listen to this transformational interview Friday, December 20th, at 7 PM ET and later in a podcast and videocast at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Ganz

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In this week’s episode, we are talking ‘all things vagus nerve’ and why our guest Melanie Weller, affectionally dubbed the body whisperer by her clients, says we are making healing way too hard. Melanie is the world’s leading expert in treating the vagus nerve as a pinched nerve, and she will share with us how we accidentally lock into our body past traumas plus

• Why chronic pain is locked in our limbic system.
• How the vagus nerve allows our heart to ‘speak.’
• Why our bodies often take the path of least resistance
• The theory of how our nervous system syncs with the electromagnetic field of the earth... plus so much more.

In this wide-ranging, fascinating interview, Melanie and I explore overlooks areas of dis-ease and why it’s essential to study. Melanie Weller PT, MPT, OCS, ATC has an extensive background in treating patients no-one else could help. She now focuses on mitigating burnout and optimizing performance in entertainers, athletes, and medical professionals. She is a Physical Therapist, board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, Certified Athletic Trainer, and Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults. Find out more at www.melanieweller.com

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It’s all around us, runny noses, coughing, sneezing, oh my…! It makes you want to run and hide this time of year... No need, as our guest, Dr. Jenny Tufenkian, ND, shares with us great tips and tricks for staying healthy during this time of year, even with an autoimmune. Having cured herself of CFS, Dr. Jenny has been practicing and teaching functional medicine for over two decades. In this episode, she shows us the steps we can take to protect ourselves, family, and friends from the dreaded ‘crud’ including:

• What to do immediately upon feeling, “I might be coming down with something...”

• How to reduce the 'spread of germs' if a family member brings 'it' home

• Things we can do to strengthen our immune system

Plus so much more...

Our guest, Dr. Jenny Tufenkian, works primarily with complex medical issues and chronically ill patients. She digs deep into the available research to leave no stone unturned when helping patients... as she says she was ‘a hard case’ herself. Using what she has learning healing herself and others, she now has distilled everything into her signature’ Core Vitality Program.’ Learn more at https://www.drjennytufenkian.com/

And listen to this timely and essential chat at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Flu Friday, November 29th at 7PM ET and later in podcast and video.

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BAck by popular demand, Sharon Sayler welcomes Sarah Peyton sharing her Alarmed Aloneness wisodm. Alarmed aloneness is that state that’s not ‘fight-or-flight’ and yet not contentment or social engagement… Alarmed aloneness is the place in which we get an elevated heart rate and increased cortisol because somebody (or something) who is important to us has disappeared. When Sarah Peyton, shared her theory with me, I knew we had to have her back as she is the person who has given a name to this emotional state that many with long-term conditions can relate.

Sarah is an international speaker and #1 best selling author who has a passion for weaving together neuroscience knowledge and experiences of healing to unify our emotional brains and bodies. She makes Interpersonal Neurobiology research available to all, so we, too, can understand how this new area of study can dynamically change the trajectory of our healing. In this episode, Sarah shares:

• What is alarmed aloneness and why it is essential to be aware of,
• How alarmed aloneness can affect us and those we love,
• What we can do to change alarmed aloneness into connections,
• How physical symptoms, our emotions, and past trauma are intertwined,
and so much more….

More About Sarah Peyton: Sarah is the creator of the Your Resonant Self program (www.yourresonantself.com). She creates change using precision resonant language that easily creates insights and transformation. Besides her Interpersonal Neurobiology research, Sarah also brings to us her long-term study of Nonviolent Communication and 3-D body-centered explorations of families over generations through Family Constellation work.

You can learn more about Sarah Peyton and her remarkable work at www.yourresonantself.com and www.empathybrain.com and listen to this transformational interview and share this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Alone.

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In this episode, host Sharon Sayler welcomes Caroline Aylward, the creator of ‘Get A Helmet,’ a company focused on heart-centered storytelling through video + audio. Caroline’s journey through body image issues, anxiety, and depression have taught this resilient thriver essential life lessons that she is now sharing with us, and in a film, she is producing and directing on womxn’s body image challenges and self-worth. Caroline shares with us her hard-won insights, tips, and techniques, including:

• How to overcome media stereotypes that create a culture of disempowering thoughts and feelings,
• Ways to move through ‘it all’ with ease, even in those moments when it feels painful and scary,
• What to do when you uncover festering feelings of resistance and
• Her personal experience of body image recovery plus so much more...

About our Guest: Caroline Aylward creates brand documentaries for female-identifying small business owners, artists, and makers. She also offers 1:1 mentorship sessions for womxn ready to unapologetically reconnect to their power, release shame surrounding their body image + relieve anxiety. Get A Helmet is also a podcast -- focused on spirituality, creativity, and wellness -- available on iTunes, Spotify, and anywhere you download your podcasts. Caroline is shooting a film on womxn’s body image and self-worth in Boston with an all female-identifying crew + cast.  Learn more at www.getahelmet.co.

Join our exploration of body image, wellness, and well-being and share this link with family and friends www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Caroline

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