We are joined today by special guest, Grace Shepard. She is a registered nurse turned functional practitioner who has a heart and passion for working with mothers and helping them to regain their energy and to start feeling well again! Grace shares a little bit about her story and then we dive into a Q&A with her about wellness and nourishment in all stages of motherhood. We finish off the episode by discussing how to get in touch with your intuition for healthy living during motherhood.

Grace’s Instagram: @graceshepardwellness

How you can work with Grace and what she offers

• The HTMA Core Assessment utilizes the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) test to look at your mineral levels, which are foundational to your health. From here, we’ll identify areas where your body needs support and create a protocol for you that will address your symptoms and goals in a sustainable way. 

• The Nourished Motherhood Program is a 4 month 1 on 1 program for the mom ready to dive deep into healing, find answers for her health concerns that she’s been longing for, and establish rhythms and routines in her day to day life that help her become the mom God is calling her to be.

  
  

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support! 

Social media is full of noise about what you should be doing when it comes to your water, “You need this filter, never drink tap water, and here are my favorite mineral drops - and by the way here is my link to save $$.” While there can be a lot of great information out there, let’s cut through all the noise and break it down for what makes sense for YOU. Join Josie today for a solo episode as she breaks it down, shares her own personal story of using ultra filtered water and RO water, and how she has simplified it down and has experienced a new layer of healing in her own journey from it all.

Kayleigh’s Instagram account: https://riverside.fm/studio/sarah-annes-studio-EMDi2?t=d5021caba259f1a0531a (for access to her Patreon article on the lost art of soup!)

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Josie @whole.mother.hood

Sarah Anne @wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support! 

Today we are joined by our very own husbands, Trevor and Luke, to discuss what their perspectives are on pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. We talk about their general perspectives on these topics, as well as how they approach their role in these seasons.

Trevor brings the reflective benefits of having been through multiple pregnancies with Josie and how his support role has grown through each of those. Luke brings a fresh perspective as a first-timer going through these experiences and what he anticipates for the birth and postpartum seasons.

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support!

Join us as we chat about what it looks like to live in sync with the seasons and how doing so benefits our health and wellbeing. We talk about some of the ways our society has generally been living OUT of syn with the season and how that might be impacting several spheres of our wellness, and we spend some extra time at the end talking about living in sync with and embracing winter specifically!

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support!

This week we are discussing the concept of following your intuition vs outsourcing responsibility during pregnancy, birth, motherhood, and beyond. Just a reminder, these are just our thoughts in the topic and reflect our approaches to decision making. We realize not every perspective is represented in this discussion. We would love to here your perspectives on this issue as well!

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support! 

Today we are sitting down and chatting about preparing for a baby and postpartum. You can do a quick google search “what do I need for a baby” and list after list pops up that has a hundred different items. The quantity and price quickly add up. Do we really need all those things? Are we overcomplicating having and taking care of a newborn?

Tune is as we discuss what we really need for a baby and also how to care for and support the sacred postpartum period. You might just find that list is a lot shorter than expected and supporting a mama looks different than just coming over and holding her baby.

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support! 

Welcome back to episode to another episode of the Barefoot Babes Podcast!

This week we are diving into some of the possible factors contributing to why ADHD and autism are on the rise at alarming rates. We also touch on the self limiting beliefs that might come with the labels, and our thoughts on taking radical self-responsibility when it comes to your health and lifestyle choices.

Resources:

What ADHD is, plus technology’s pros and cons for this with ADHD

2011 review on connection between screen time and ADHD

A 3-year study into nutrition’s correlation with ADHD

Article on Artifical Food Colors and ADHD association

Tylenol and possible ADHD/Autism link

Plastics and Autism link

With the start of the new calendar year, and entering into winter as a natural season of reflection, we wanted to start the season 4 talking through our own reflections on how we have seen change and progress within our own wellness journeys the past year. We hope this conversation encourages you to also reflect on the last year, or your wellness journey so far, and think about your trajectory going forward!

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@whole.mother.hood

@wholewoman_wellness

And just a reminder if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave us a rating and review. You can also message us directly on Instagram with feedback or episode suggestions! We appreciate your support!

Join Sarah Anne for a solo episode discussing some of the driving forces behind why we are seeing a decline in our world’s state of wellness. Despite having arguably the most knowledge about the human bodies than we ever have before, we are getting sicker and sicker as the years go on…so what gives?

Our Instagram's:

Josie @whole.mother.hood

Sarah Anne @wholewoman_wellness

Resources:

CDC stats on mortality causes in from 1900-1998

Percentage of deaths from heart disease in 1975 chart

CDC stats on mortality cases in 2023

HUB history of the medical system in the US

1800s lifestyle

Today we are covering a topic we are both passionate about, and that is pursuing health while making it as *simple* as possible. It is so easy to get caught up in all the things you should be doing, gadgets you should have, supplements you should be taking, and the list goes on. Often times this overcomplicates health and healing, which then leads to a decline in health and a feeling of burnout. Your health and healing should make your life easier, not harder.

Join us as we discuss some of the ways we see health being overcomplicated or confusing, some basic principles we like to follow to ensure we don't burnout, and some personal narrative of when we’ve gotten overwhelmed and how we try to keep it simple now!

Our Instagram's:

Josie: @whole.mother.hood

Sarah Anne: @wholewoman_wellness

Resources:

Stats from CDC on avg number of prescriptions taken by each person

Stats from Health Policy Institute on prescription drugs

2019 stats from Penn State

National Pharmaceutical Trends per the NIH

Stats on the global supplement industry