The Autoimmune Hour

With the not so surprising research showing a connection between stress and clutter and the often experienced symptoms of stress and autoimmune flares, let’s talk spring cleaning and decluttering!

And, thanks to the easy to implement tips our guest expert Sharon McRill, author of the best-seller ‘Downsizing the Silver Tsunami: Who to call and where does the stuff go?’ and owner and president of The Betty Brigade, an Ann Arbor-based organization, and relocation company is sharing, we discover clutter is one of our more manageable life stressors to solve.

Some of what Sharon will share with us is:
• Understanding the emotion of letting our stuff go
• The simplest way to get your decluttering started
• What to do when family members clutter styles differ
plus so much more....

Sharon McRill loves to help busy people get things done. As the owner and president of The Betty Brigade, an Ann Arbor-based organization and relocation company, Sharon and her team of 10 “Betties” perform such projects as moving coordination, organizing and staging. For more information on The Betty Brigade, visit www.BettyBrigade.com. Then, listen to this intriguing and productive chat at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Clutter Friday, June 21st at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video.

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A focus on resilience and wellness, not a fixation on disappointing stats and dis-ease is part of what creates the foundation for recovery, thriving, healing, and whatever you want to create. In this episode, Sharon Sayler welcomes Michael Tranmer, author of the upcoming book, 'Satori Ananda - Awaken to Happiness,' and an expert in focus, adaptability, and resilience to chat about how we can quickly implement 'systems' to optimize our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Michael shares from his background as a retired Engineering Project Manager and now as a coach for high performing coaches to show us his systematic process of success, and how to apply the same approach to our wellness and well-being.

• How routines and rituals will amplify your well-being
• Simple ways to craft your curiosity to create your own 'new normal,'
• How to quickly get back on track when wellness goes awry,
• How to accept what is while being consistently optimistic in your approach to life, plus so much more….

More about Michael Tranmer: Michael helps launch new online coaches so they can leave their corporate jobs and powerfully serve people on a higher level. He guides clients to greater clarity based on creating a consistent, disciplined and focused lifestyle. Discover more at www.MichaelTranmer.com. Please share the link below with family and friends (in podcast and videocast at) www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Focus

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We welcome back Tamara Green LCSW and David Dachinger from Loving Meditations on Cancer Survivor Awareness Day! for an authentic and insightful chat about ‘what now?’ As in, succeeding in your ‘new normal’ after you’ve made it through the ‘worst’ of a life-altering diagnosis.

David is a Grammy®-nominated engineer and composer and professional firefighter, as well as a Stage IV cancer survivor. Tamara, who took care of David during his illness, is a world-class relationship expert, caregiver support leader, hypnotherapist, and movement guru. In addition to their Loving Meditations meditation app, they've created self-care tools that radically enhance the lives of thousands. Their greatest fulfillment today is improving the lives of those touched by cancer… and beyond.

As thrivers of life-altering diagnosis', we share our best tips and thoughts on what the ‘new normal’ is like for us, including:

• How to accept what is and see the value of the new,
• What to do instead of focusing on fears and what-ifs,
• How to breathe away the pain,
• How to set the tone for healing along with ways to honor your miracle machine — your body! Plus so much more….

David Dachinger and Tamara Green, LCSW are the dynamic duo behind the Loving Meditations app, a robust set of mindfulness tools that help patients and caregivers dramatically reduce stress, anxiety, pain, and discomfort throughout their medical ordeal. They are also the authors of ‘Live Calm with Cancer (and Beyond…).’ Learn more about their mindfulness app, programs, and book at calmcancerstress.com and LovingMeditations.com. Then listen to this powerful interview starting Friday night June 7th at 7 PM ET Later in podcast and videocast at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Thrive

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Optimize Your Health with Nutritional Balancing and Hair Mineral Testing

In this episode, we explore toxins, poor nutrition, even too-much-of-a-good-thing, digestion, and the healing process with guest expert Eva Vennari from www.theElevateInstitute.com. Eva is on a mission to dismantle the status quo of the sickness industry. Having spent most of her adult life suffering from all kinds of conditions and fighting for her sanity, she decided to take matters into her own hands. That’s when everything shifted, and her body went from being the enemy to being her best and most devoted ally and partner.

One way to support your ‘devoted ally and partner’ is through removing toxins and imbalances within your systems, including digestion. Over time, toxins, waste, even those too-much-of-a-good-things can build up and cause a variety of health issues, including a weakened immune system, brain fog, and low energy.

Eva teaches worldwide how to take charge of your wellbeing and thrive. With her insights and delightful humor, she shares with us:

• What is Nutritional Balancing,
• How to uncover and correct imbalances and depletions in the body,
• What is hair mineral testing and how can it help in recreating balance,
• Why it is essential to optimize our digestion system,
• A new way to look at hydration, plus so much more.

Listen to this compelling episode first, Friday, May 31st at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Eva and later in podcast and video.

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Disgust? Why do we need to think about disgust you may ask like I did when tonight’s guest Sarah Peyton and I chatted recently... Her response, “Because disgust is a primary emotion that affects how we make many of our decisions and is the basis for our judgments.”

Okay, that’s why... we welcome back Sarah Peyton, the creator of the Your Resonant Self program (www.yourresonantself.com), 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. Sarah 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 shows us why disgust is a vital emotion to understand and come-to-terms-with, plus she shares:
• The latest research on how disgust can transform our views and beliefs,
• How disgust can affect our digestive tract,
• Where self-disgust can come from and how to turn it into positives,
• How mindset, emotions, and past trauma can be part of what’s going on now
and so much more….

More About Sarah Peyton: Sarah creates change using precision and resonant language that easily create 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 Friday, May 24, at 7 PM ET and later in a podcast and videocast at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Disgust

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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’s of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and burnout around to live her best life yet.

Learn more about Whitney at https://whitneygordon-mead.com/ and share our engaging chat at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Burnout

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In this episode, we explore what it’s like dealing with hard to diagnosis conditions like Fibromyalgia and how to be a strong advocate for your well-being with Fibromyalgia patient advocate, patient-rights leader, and Army veteran Kristal Kent.

With 20 years of social service professional experience, Kristal’s advocacy work focuses on educating the Fibromyalgia community on the illness, and how to best advocate for their healthcare needs. And as a veteran with Fibromyalgia, Kristal also advocates on behalf of military veterans diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. 

After sharing some time with Kristal, I discovered she's a true transformation catalyst. And in this episode, she will show us ways to transform into being our best, and ways to move past our fears and diagnosis to live our best life including: 

• Ways to move past the voice of fear, 
• Why addressing individual symptoms doesn’t work,
• How to create success at your medical appointments and beyond,
• Why recognizing situational ‘symptoms’ are critical to your well-being  
• Tips and techniques to stop triggers and anxiety in their tracks, plus so much more...

Kristal Kent serves on the WEGO Health Patient Leader Advisory Board and is a board of trustee member for the Fibromyalgia Care Society Of America. Kristal has received numerous awards for her advocacy work, including 2 WEGO Health Awards in 2018. Kristal is the founder of The Fibromyalgia Pain Chronicles and the co-founder of Veteran Voices For Fibromyalgia.  Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/KristalPainChronicles/, and https://www.facebook.com/VeteranVoicesForFibromyalgia/

Listen to action-oriented interview starting Friday, May 10th at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune/Kristal later in podcast and videocast.

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In this fascinating chat, we look at homeopathy with Ingrid Schutt, Classical Homeopathist. Homeopathy is a natural wellness system based on the belief that the body can heal itself. Those who practice it use tiny amounts of natural substances, like plants and minerals to stimulate wellness and well-being.

Homeopathy was developed in the late 1700s in Germany and is now common in many parts of the world including Europe. Ingrid shares with us a deeper understanding of Homeopathy, wellness, and well-being including:

• Her personal experiences with Homeopathy?
• What is Homeopathy?
• How looking at your timeline as an integrative whole gives clues to the root cause of disturbances and dis-ease
• Ways to help the body find its balance plus more...

About our guest: Ingrid Schutt, Classical Homeopathist based in Montreal, CA since 1998 and online since 2005. She is a member of Global Outreach Doctors International, a humanitarian emergency relief agency and a member in good standing of Association Nationale des Naturothérapeutes. Learn more at www.HOMEOPATHE.ca and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/IngridHomeopathe/

Remember, what works for me may or may not work for you. The information provided on The Autoimmune Hour is for educational and informational purposes only. Always seek sound professional advice on your own. With this interview, my guest and I are sharing others' research and our own anecdotal experiences including those of and with clients, listeners, and friends. Listen to the intriguing interview Friday, May 3rd at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Ingrid.

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Back by popular request, our special guest, Valerie Sheppard, the author of the award-winning, #1 international best-seller ‘Living Happy to Be ME!’ book shares with us fantastic insights, including those she gained during her on-going recovery from a catastrophic-hemorrhagic stroke.

They include:
• How the story you are building around your current experience can keep you stuck
• The difference between stagnation and gestation, and what it means to you
• How paying attention to the little things creates significant changes
• Why slow downing speeds up your progress, plus much more…

Valerie Sheppard is also an inspirational keynote speaker, university lecturer, and a certified Laughter Yoga instructor! In this compelling interview, she shares her passion for life-mastery featuring her 4-Step Happy to Be ME!© process. Her process is the centerpiece of her partnership with the University of California, Irvine for a much-loved and successful class called Living 101: Being Happy and Whole. Learn more about Valerie and her amazing work at http://HappytoBeME.net.

Listen to the show, April 26th at 7PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Happy

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In this fascinating, raw, and real chat, we explore the absurdity of 'all-of-this' along with what to do with the all too common statement "It's all in your head" with mycotoxins autoimmune thriver, National Geographic explorer and FAU professor, Maria Fadiman.

Maria Fadiman works to make a difference in the world (really, the whole world) and embraces the challenges that come with the explorer kind of life. She is the creator of a compelling and funny one-woman show about discovering her autoimmune disorder, dealing with it, and getting back to being a "badass international explorer" even with an autoimmune condition. Just some of what she shares with us is:

• The freedom when you discover 'It's a crazy reaction, AND I'm not crazy...'
• How to find the humor and uncover happiness within your diagnosis,
• Why it is essential to have someone who "helps you think it out…"
• The mindset tips that keep this international explorer continuing her adventures, plus so much more.

Our guest Maria Fadiman is an associate professor in the Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. She researches the human/environmental aspect of conservation, focusing on ethnobotany, the study of the relationship between people and plants, and has given two TEDx talks. In addition to her academic publications, she writes adventure essays and is one of the invited contributors to the book, Global Chorus, along with others such as the Dalai Lama and Jane Goodall.

Listen to this revealing episode first, Friday, April 19th at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Maria and later in podcast and video.

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