Are you stressed out and told you need to just breathe but slowing down to focus on counting inhales and exhales is annoying?  Jillian Rutledge is a dolphin trainer turned breathing coach who helps clients get in touch with their personal breathing rhythm just as dolphins do.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast Jillian Rutledge and Dr. Jannine Krause talk about how paying attention to your own breathing patterns can help you to find a sustainable breathing pattern to help you manage stress.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How Jillian learned how to breathe from dolphins
• Why Yawning Reduces Tension in the Body
• Why sighing may be a sign you are de-stressing
• How paying attention to your breathing can help you identify stressed states and the need to change your breathing pattern

Are you feeling overwhelmed or burnt out in your career to the point you’re dreaming daily of an escape route?  Is it causing fatigue to the point that you’re not enjoying your life to the fullest…or at all right now.  Corey Jahnke experienced burnout to the extreme as a retail pharmacist and found a way to use his thoughts to restore his energy and revive his passion for his career.  Corey is now on a mission to help others who are struggling with career burnout and he’s created a podcast and a website to do just that.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Corey Jahnke on his Successful Thinker website and how he changed his thoughts to change his life.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How changing your thoughts helps you change your current situation
• Why delegating tasks you don’t love saves you from burnout
• How to assess your career and find ways to re-ignite your passion
• What to do right now to start thinking successfully

Are you accessing the right areas of your brain when you meditate?  Many with trauma and PTSD struggle to meditate as meditation can cause painful thoughts and emotions to surface. Christine Forner (BA, BSW, MSW, Registered Social Worker) is a specialist in the field of Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Dissociation.  She’s also the author and creator of a method of meditation called Creative Meditation for Dissociation Disorders and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Processing (MPFC processing).  Christine has taught in Canada and internationally on the subject of Trauma and Dissociation.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast Christine and Dr. Jannine Krause discuss Christine’s meditation techniques she uses to help those with trauma and PTSD meditate successfully.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How Christine’s creative meditation technique works
• How unmet childhood needs interfere with meditation
• Why chronic pain is a manifestation of trauma and PTSD
• Why being stuck in fight or flight mode makes it hard to relax your muscles & get benefit from massage

Are you struggling with nagging pain that just won't seem to go away?  Knowing what factors contribute to your pain can be a game changer.  Why does your body continue to send pain signals to your brain long after an injury?  Why do you feel weather changes in your joints?  Does what you eat affect how your joints and muscles feel?  Can daily exercise relieve pain? These are all questions that Dr. Jannine Krause gets in her office on a daily basis.  In this episode Dr. Krause simplifies the different types of pain using Chinese Medicine principles and solutions to improve or eliminate pain.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How stress triggers chronic pain
• Why improving your circulation improves pain
• How your diet influences your pain levels
• What to do right now to improve your pain

Wouldn’t it be nice if stress management was taught early on in school? Would you be better prepared for life’s stressors? Sadly, the majority of chronic illness can be traced back to poor stress management. Do you struggle to de-stress, relax or calm your nervous system? If so this episode is for you! In this episode, Dr. Jannine Krause breaks down how stress affects the brain, gut, heart, metabolism and more.  This is part of a two part series on stress - check out episode 203 for more!

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How stress triggers the fight or flight response
• Why not being able to switch into rest, digest & chill mode trashes your gut, heart, brain, metabolism & more
• How to calm stress by surrounding yourself with things that comfort you
• How to adjust your daily routines and habits to fight stress

Overwhelmed, fatigued & gaining weight? How you spend your days & the habits you have contribute to your stress & overwhelm. It’s not like anyone taught you how to juggle fun & adulting. Rebelling against schedules and routines causes increased stress over the years. Not scheduling in breaks during the day, working through lunch & taking work home might seem like the way to get ahead but what is it doing to your health? In this episode, Dr. Jannine Krause breaks down how you can add in breaks throughout the day to get you in rest, digest and chill mode more often!  This is part one of two podcasts dedicated to stress.  Check out episode 204 for more on stress!

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• How not taking breaks signals your brain to stay in stress mode
• Why your memory issues are due not giving your brain chill signals
• How to structure your day to improve memory, energy & metabolism
• Why daily play is key to improve how your body manages stress

Do you find yourself struggling to connect your brain and body to achieve optimal health? Disassociation is a primal survival response that humans experience secondary to trauma to prevent the sensation of pain. Disassociation is more common that you might think and sadly it’s directly connected to bonding with your parents or caregivers. Christine Forner (BA, BSW, MSW, Registered Social Worker) is a specialist in the field of Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Dissociation. She’s also the author and creator of a method of meditation called Creative Meditation for Dissociative Disorders and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Processing (MPFC processing). Christine has taught in Canada and internationally on the subject of Trauma and Disassociation. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast Christine and Dr. Jannine Krause discuss disassociation, it’s causes and what to do right now to begin your journey to reconnecting your mind and body.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• What is traumatic disassociation and why it’s so common
• How unmet childhood needs translate into traumatic disassociation
• Why the need for bonding is more crucial than food in childhood
• Why being stuck in fight or flight mode makes it hard to become internally aware
• Why Autoimmune Disease is linked to chronic stress and an inflamed central nervous system
• How unavailable parents or caregivers lead to traumatic disassociation

Curious about what REALLY works to improve your health, get your weight in check & have all day energy?  In this episode Dr. Jannine Krause shed's light on what she's found in her last 13+ years of practice are key things to master for optimal health to see your energy increase, mood improve, and pain decrease.

What you'll learn in this podcast...

The 7 things you need to master to optimize your health:

1) Sleep - At least 8 hours a night, monitoring it to ensure it’s restful. Oura Ring is recommended for this!

2) Hydration - Drink at least ½ your body weight in ounces a day & more if you are exercising and drinking coffee

3) Circulation - Move every hour for at least 5 minutes, do joint mobility work. Contrast hydrotherapy - apply to areas of pain. 3 mins hot and 30 secs cold. 3 rounds ending on cold

4) Breathing to Reset your nervous system -You have to keep giving your body the “all clear signal” and get it out of fight or flight and into chill mode. Conditioning training to help your body adjust to good stressors like exercise plus improve your heart rate variability (HRV)

5) Protect Your Microbiome - Your skin, oral and gut all matter. Eat closest to nature, avoiding fried chips and snacks, slow down and experience food, don’t stuff yourself!

6) Optimize Cell Signaling - Test your sex hormones. DUTCH test or blood test, test your cortisol. ZRT Labs saliva, test your thyroid (TSH, free T4, free T3, reverse T3, thyroid antibodies), insulin resistance and blood.

7) Get Your Mind Right - Work on your self awareness, self love, living aligned with your values, know what triggers you emotionally, make sure you get your needs met.

Dr. Aimée V. Sanchez, Ph.D. is a Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, Award Winning 3x best-selling author featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, A/E and Bravo, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today!

Dr. Sanchez is an Executive Coach, and Speaker specializing in Organizational/Business Consulting and Coaching for high performing individuals, teams, and organizations. She recently created and developed a leadership training series for over 1200 women leaders throughout the US.

Dr. Sanchez’s sweet spot is working with women leaders to teach them how to effectively navigate the politics of promotion, and utilize a strategic approach to advancing in their careers.

She’s on a mission to impact 1 million leaders and help them to transform their professional lives by teaching them how to accelerate their career trajectory, by helping them to acquire necessary and critical leadership skills, earn what they are worth, and recognize your inherent value. She has taught thousands of women leaders how to gain the competitive advantage using her proven methods-and In this episode of The Health Fix she’s going to share how to get what you want in your career without sacrificing your health.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• Why comparing yourself to others, imposter syndrome & skill gaps are the only things between you and a self styled career
• Why self awareness is key to career clarity
• How strategies are vital to creating your dream career
• What they don’t tell you in school about your career – hint: it’s not a one size fits all situation

Un-repaired trauma within relationships or family can carry into adulthood and leave you stuck in life. Are you stuck in a repetitive cycle of toxic relationships, career drama, or struggling with emotional trauma? Are you a people pleaser sacrificing your needs above others? In this podcast interview Dr. Jannine Krause and Dr. Nima Rahmany dive into how Dr. Nima guides couples and individuals to become trigger proof by taking what’s challenging them externally and turn it into a benefit for them.

What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:

• Why emotional wounds manifest in your relationships & physically
• Why un-repaired & unresolved relationships have a direct correlation with your state of health
• How you abandon yourself to people please ruining your health
• What it takes to become trigger proof & take control of your health
• How to empower yourself to become your own hero
• How chronic illness is related to guilt and grief