The Good with Theresa G

What if perimenopause and menopause aren't simply hormonal transitions, but profound initiations into a woman's deeper wisdom, embodiment, and personal power?

As women all over the world step more fully into their feminine power, can you rise with them?

You're invited.

For this conversation, I welcome back one of my favorite doctors and my personal physician of 15 years, Dr. Alisun Bonville, naturopathic endocrinologist, functional medicine physician, and owner of Spring Integrative Health in Bozeman, Montana.

A few weeks ago, Dr. Ali welcomed me into perimenopause. But rather than presenting this next chapter as something to fear, she invited me to recognize it as a time of becoming.

Together, we explore what happens when a woman's body begins asking for something different from her life.

When the patterns of over-giving, over-functioning, and seeking approval no longer fit.

When our boundaries become clearer, our energy more intentional, and our capacity to hear our own truth grows stronger.

We talk about the Wise Woman, the Queen, and the extraordinary possibility of entering a stage of life where feminine power is no longer measured by youth, appearance, productivity, or how much we can give to others.

We also explore the real biology of perimenopause and menopause, hormone therapy, the nervous system, stress, grief, sexuality, body image, intimacy, and the importance of supporting our changing bodies without losing sight of the women living inside them.

This is a conversation about honoring both the science and the soul.

About stepping into our wisdom rather than resisting our evolution.

About moving beyond who we have been and fully inhabiting who we are becoming.

And perhaps most importantly, about recognizing that this chapter of a woman's life does not have to be defined by becoming less.

It may be an invitation to become more fully ourselves.

Thank you, Dr. Ali, for 15 years of caring for me, and for the wisdom, heart, and perspective you bring to women navigating this extraordinary passage.

Thank you for being here.

The Good with Theresa G

Connect with Dr. Alisun Bonville

Spring Integrative Health: https://springintegrativehealth.com

The Hormone Frequency: https://thehormonefrequency.com

What if we stopped thinking of a house as simply a structure and started understanding it as a living system?

In this episode of The Good with Theresa G., I sit down with Bozeman-based Building Biologist Lynne White to explore the relationship between human health and the built environment.

We talk about the things we often cannot see when we walk into a home: indoor air quality, moisture movement, ventilation, mold, building materials, electromagnetic fields, light, water, and the way all of these systems interact with one another and with the people living inside them.

This conversation is especially close to my heart. I have looked at buildings through a whole-systems lens for almost two decades, through regenerative ecological design, natural and healthy building materials, permaculture, solar, interior environments, and my own early studies in Building Biology, which I began in 2013.

What continues to fascinate me is that there is no single "healthy home" checklist.

A building is a relationship.

Between air and envelope.

Water and materials.

The house and the land.

Energy efficiency and ventilation.

Chi and flow.

And ultimately, between the building and the human beings living inside it.

Lynne and I explore what buyers and homeowners should be paying attention to, where Building Biology and conventional building science intersect, how to think about environmental exposures without fear, and what it might look like to create homes that nurture a thriving life.

And just as importantly, we talk about stewardship.

How do we become better guardians of the shelters that hold us?

How do we learn to notice what a building is telling us, care for it before small problems become larger ones, and make choices that support life both within and beyond its walls?

Because maybe the question isn't only:

Is this a good house?

Maybe the better question is:

What changes when we stop asking what a home can do for us and start asking what kind of relationship we are creating with the places that hold us?

Come listen.

Thank you for being here.

Who knew dance could offer such a powerful mirror for how we show up in relationship with ourselves and with others?

Suzi Rose knows this, and she sees it all the time.

Suzi is a dance instructor, ICF-trained life coach, and the woman behind Western Roots Country Dancing. Her work explores far more than learning the steps. Through dance, she looks at presence, trust, leadership, following, communication, control, and the energy we bring into partnership.

That exploration has also led her to work with horses, which can reflect our energy back to us in remarkably direct ways. For some people, that reflection creates a greater capacity to observe their own patterns and how they enter into relationship.

This conversation is an exploration of human relationship through dance, horses, energy, and reflection.

What is it actually like to be in relationship with you?

Come listen.

Thank you for being here. 💛

Often, we don’t see the people behind the scenes who help support someone else’s success.

Why do you think that is?

Anywho, not on my podcast. 

Last week, you met Kina Pickett and heard about his journey through professional skiing, creativity, entrepreneurship, reinvention, and building a life outside the traditional path.

This week, we continue that conversation and welcome Nellie, one of my very good friends and a major force behind Kina and the life they’ve built together.

Kina is the first to say it.

We talk about the adventure that is them. The risks they’ve taken, raising a family while pursuing big ideas, living in an Airstream for a year and a half, entrepreneurship, partnership, and what it takes to create a life that doesn’t necessarily follow the traditional blueprint.

Nellie is a force in her own right, an equal architect of the unconventional life they’ve chosen to build together.

Because sometimes you don’t find the life that fits you.

You manufacture it.

Come listen.

Thank you for being here! 

"Don’t let what you do define who you are. Let who you are define what you do."

Meet my friend Kina Pickett. 💛

Kina spent years as a competitive skier, traveling the world and skiing extraordinary mountain lines. But underneath the skiing is a much bigger story about creativity, identity, risk, and what it means to build a life on your own terms.

We talk about skiing as a deeply creative act, the process of reintegrating into everyday life after being an extreme athlete, entrepreneurship, AI and creativity, and the reality that creating the life you dream about is not always easy.

We explore what happens when the thing you have dedicated so much of your life to is no longer the thing that defines you. How do you rediscover yourself? How do you carry the creativity, discipline, and freedom you found in one chapter into the next?

And oh, the stories he has!

Kina’s wife, Nellie, joins us for part of this conversation. She is one of my dear friends, and I loved hearing the two of them reflect on the life they’ve built together so much that I decided to give that part of their story its own episode.

You’ll get to meet her next week! 💛

Come listen.

Thank you for being here.

Elaine Huang is one of my spiritual teachers and trusted advisors, and I am so happy to welcome her to The Good with Theresa G.

Elaine brings decades of experience at the intersection of meditation, psychology, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and spiritual practice. She holds master’s degrees in Social Work and Clinical Psychology, is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), a Certified Search Inside Yourself Teacher, and a Mindful Leadership Trainer. She has practiced and taught meditation for more than 25 years.

In this conversation, we explore what it means to step outside the traditional path and lean more deeply into your own authenticity.

How do we learn to discern intuition from all the other voices inside and around us?

Can we intentionally expand our innate capacity for wonder?

What happens during a spiritual awakening, and perhaps even more importantly, how do we integrate those experiences into our everyday lives?

We talk about meditation, energy fields, intuition, nervous system regulation, spiritual awakening, integration, and the lifelong practice of coming home to ourselves.

We also revisit something Elaine taught me years ago: the gift of impermanence. What changes when we begin to recognize that endings, uncertainty, and the temporary nature of everything we love are not simply things to fear, but part of what makes being here so precious?

And we ask a question that reaches far beyond spirituality:

Is there really such a thing as a magic bullet when it comes to growth of any kind?

Elaine also shares simple, practical techniques we can use to calm the body and nervous system and reconnect with ourselves when life feels overwhelming.

This conversation moves between the mystical and the practical, the extraordinary and the beautifully ordinary.

And underneath it all is a simple possibility:

Peace may be closer than you know.

Another conversation offered as a little medicine, if you need it.

Thank you for being here. 💛

It has been said over and over again that health begins in the mouth.

I have learned that lesson in ways I never could have imagined over the last ten years.

Apparently, it was medicine my soul needed, because I have learned so much through some pretty hardcore suffering and some truly wild experiences.

Before mercury poisoning, I was basically a brick. Nothing affected me. I could tolerate almost anything.

Afterward, my body became profoundly sensitive. And although I have healed from so much of what came next, one area where my body still seems to pay very close attention is dental materials.

Maybe that makes sense. These are materials that can live in the mouth for years, sometimes decades.

And that has made me ask questions I never used to ask.

Do you know what is actually in your dental materials?

Do you know what is being placed in your mouth and how your individual body might respond to it?

Does your dentist think about the connection between your teeth, your nervous system, inflammation, materials, and the rest of your body?

And maybe just as importantly, do they listen when you tell them something does not feel right?

That last one has become huge for me.

I think one of the major problems in healthcare right now is how often patients are dismissed as overreacting, exaggerating, or being overly sensitive when they are simply trying to describe what they are experiencing in their own bodies.

My experiences taught me to value practitioners who stay curious.

Practitioners who listen.

Practitioners who care about the whole human being in front of them.

Which brings me to my dentist.

I cannot wait to introduce you to Dr. Spencer.

Finding a dentist who was heart-led, holistic, deeply thoughtful about materials, and also had exceptional clinical skills turned out to be far harder than I ever imagined.

And then I found him.

Dr. Spencer is incredibly special, both as a practitioner and as a human being.

So if you have ever wondered about the connection between your mouth and the rest of your body, questioned what is actually being used in your dental care, or simply wanted a dentist who sees more than a collection of teeth, I think you are going to love this conversation.

Meet my favorite dentist, Dr. Spencer.

Thank you for being here. 💛

Sitting in the forest with my sisters of soul. Thirty years of reflection continues.

If you didn’t catch the first episode, you’ll want to go back and listen or watch before joining us here.

As I edited this episode, it occurred to me that our love, our connection that somehow seems to reach beyond space and time, is also part of a much larger story of sisterhood.

Our stories are uniquely ours, but woven through them are so many of the experiences women have carried together for generations.

Love. Loss. Motherhood. Marriage. Death. Grief. Suicide. Addiction. Numbing. COVID. Spiritual awakening. Soul. Divinity. Letting go. Becoming. Finding ourselves again.

We talk about the ways we survive. The ways we disconnect from ourselves. The things we reach for when life feels too painful to hold. The losses that change us. The love that carries us. The moments that wake us up. And the questions that remain when everything we thought we understood begins to shift.

Through all of it, there is the extraordinary power of having other women beside us. Women who have witnessed our lives, held us through the breaking, laughed with us through the absurdity, and reminded us who we are when we have forgotten.

May we continue to rise into the fullness of our feminine power and capacity, together and in community.

A gentle note before listening: this conversation includes discussion of suicide, addiction, death, grief, and other difficult life experiences.

Please share this conversation if you feel it might help someone feel less alone.

Thank you for being here. 💛

We've walked through darkness and light, pain and loss, deep grief, letting go, moving through what we thought might break us, spiritual awakening, great joy, ridiculous amounts of laughter, many dances, singing each other to sleep, late-night phone calls, and all the strange twists and turns of being human.

We’ve lived enough life now to know that we’re all navigating our way through some version of the matrix. Knowing that doesn’t necessarily make the hard parts easier.

But you know what does?

Having each other.

In this conversation, Jessica, Katie and I look back at the roads that shaped us. Soul quests. Columbine. Marriage. Motherhood. Loss. Relationships. Spirituality. The choices we made, the people we became, and the things we understand very differently now than we did 30 years ago.

This isn’t really an interview. It’s three sisters sitting in a forest, looking back at their lives and asking: What the hell has all of this been about?

And, of course, there was absolutely no way we were fitting 30+ years into one episode, so this is a two-part conversation.

Come join us as we reflect on our soul journeys through this very human experience of being alive.

Thank you for being here. 💛

What if healing begins by learning how to tune in?

In this episode of The Good with Theresa G., I sit down with Katelyn Bessette, owner of Tune In Holistic and Life Yoga Studio, for a conversation about energy, vitality, intuition, and the many ways we can reconnect with ourselves.

Katelyn and I actually met through real estate, where we discovered a shared belief that there is so much more to a property than what we can physically see. Energy matters too. But our relationship took on a much more personal dimension when I found myself navigating a difficult season with my own health. I began working with Katelyn, and the shifts I experienced felt pretty extraordinary. It opened my curiosity even further about the relationship between our physical bodies, emotions, environments, and energy.

In this conversation, Katelyn shares her journey from real estate into holistic wellness and the inspiration behind Tune In Holistic and Life Yoga Studio. We explore the idea of general vitality, how she understands and works with energy, and what it can mean to become more attuned to the signals our bodies are giving us.

We also dive into the many modalities she works with, including integrative reflexology, health kinesiology and Natural BioEnergetics, Reiki, radionic bioresonance, the Emotion Code, Bach flower essences, BioTuning and tuning fork therapy, yoga, and more.

And with Katelyn preparing to welcome a baby into the world, we talk about intuition, transformation, trusting the body, and what this new chapter is teaching her.

Whether you already have a cabinet full of flower essences or you're thinking, Wait... what exactly is bioresonance?, come join us.

This is a conversation about getting curious about healing, listening more closely to ourselves, and perhaps discovering that our bodies have been communicating with us all along.

If something in this conversation resonates with you, share it with someone who might need to hear it too. These conversations grow when we pass them along. 

Thank you for listening, for sharing, and for being here.