In this episode, we are thrilled to have Chelsea, a graduate of our Holistic Anxiety Fix Program, sharing her transformative journey of healing anxiety.

Chelsea opens up about her struggles, which began around mid-2020, and how these challenges deeply affected her mental health. She experienced severe symptoms such as stress intolerance, sensitivity to stimuli, shortness of breath, hot flashes, ruminating thoughts, and a pervasive sense of negativity. Despite knowing that life wasn't as bad as her mind and body were telling her, Chelsea found herself feeling stuck and overwhelmed.

During the program, Chelsea undertook various tests and practices that significantly contributed to her recovery. These included:

Listen to Chelsea's inspiring story, exploring the highs and lows of her journey, and learn how holistic methods can offer profound healing for anxiety. Discover how Chelsea turned her life around and how you can too, with the right guidance and support from the Holistic Anxiety Fix Program.

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In this episode of the Holistic Anxiety Fix podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gillian Simpson, the founder of For The Love Of Ice. Gillian, often referred to as the "Ice Queen," shared her deeply personal journey with cold plunges, which started as a way to combat postpartum depression. Her story highlights how this practice not only transformed her mental health but also reignited her passion for life and led to the creation of her wellness studio.

We dove into the science behind cold exposure, discussing how it tones the vagus nerve, increases dopamine production, and shifts the body from a fight-or-flight state to a rest-and-digest state. Gillian emphasized the importance of proper guidance and the transformative power of co-regulation during these sessions.

For anyone curious about the physical and emotional benefits of cold plunging, this episode is packed with insights and practical advice. Gillian’s experience underscores the potential of this practice to help manage anxiety, build resilience, and promote overall well-being.

Tune in to hear more about Gillian’s inspiring story and learn how you can incorporate cold plunges into your own life for better mental and physical health.

Learn more about cold plunges by visiting Gillian's website here: https://www.fortheloveofice.com/

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In women, hormone imbalance and its popular go-to treatment, hormonal birth control are associated with anxiety more often than not. 

Underlying causes for hormone imbalance are usually poor diet, poor absorption of fats from the diet, stress, gut infections, toxic buildups, mold toxicity, and heavy metal toxicity to name a few. But the real problem starts when you try to fix hormone imbalance with hormone birth control pills instead of addressing the reason why your hormones are out of order in the first place.

These pills contain synthetic estrogens and progesterone-like chemicals called progestins. The synthetic estrogens prevent your body to make natural estrogens. The progestins inhibit LH (Luteinizing Hormone) thus blocking the formation of ovum and progesterone in the body. In the absence of natural progesterone, the body undergoes estrogen dominance and copper toxicity that can result in anxiety. 

Tune in to know more how you can save yourself from havoc that oral contraceptives might play on your health.

To learn more about how you can run a DUTCH hormone test and rebalance your hormones, schedule a complimentary call HERE

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In this episode, we dive into a topic affecting millions of women worldwide: anxiety and sleep. If you've ever felt like your world is falling apart after a few sleepless nights, you're not alone.⁣⁣

We discuss:⁣

- Connection Between Anxiety & Sleep: We'll explore how anxiety can disrupt sleep and how poor sleep can exacerbate anxiety.⁣

- Biological Insights: Learn about the roles of cortisol and melatonin in your sleep-wake cycle and how imbalances can impact your rest.⁣

- Practical Strategies: Discover actionable tips to improve your sleep, including managing light exposure, balancing blood sugar, and optimizing your diet.⁣

- Root Causes: Understand why it's crucial to address the underlying issues causing sleep disturbances rather than just treating the symptoms.⁣

- Personal Journey: I’ll share my own struggle with sleep and anxiety and how I found solutions through functional medicine.⁣

⁣Special Gift: I've created a guide, "5 Surprising Ways to Reduce Anxiety in 7 Days," with immediate action steps to help you start feeling better fast. Download it here: https://go.healingjourneyservices.com/5ways⁣

Remember: Knowledge is power, and understanding the root causes of your anxiety and sleep issues is key to lasting solutions. Tune in, subscribe, and share if you find this helpful. Together, we can heal naturally and reclaim our love for life.⁣

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Autumn is one of my ongoing clients whose healing journey is worth sharing. Her anxiety and struggle to keep up with the normal routine of life are mostly attributable to the latent Lyme infection that was swept under the rug by the medical system for 16 straight years.

She was told that it was all in her mind and doctors kept ignoring her intuition of having been infected with Lyme disease until it was too late. The infection had caused too many health complications throughout her body. It wasn’t until the last year when her anxiety went over the roof that she decided to take full charge of her health.

When she met me we did several tests including hair tests, blood work, and GI maps, and found out there were multiple underlying reasons for her disease. Years of untreated Lyme disease had wreaked havoc on her vital systems. At a time, she was contending with gut issues, mold exposure, suppressed immune systems, and medical PTSD.

Her journey signifies that there is rarely a single root cause of anxiety in any given case and we have to dig deep to find out all the layers and interconnections. Although she is back on track to reclaim her life, healing is an ongoing process and consistency is the key. Tune in to listen to her experience in her own words!

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In this episode, we dive deep into how a specific functional medicine test called DUTCH test can help to restore hormonal balance. I sit down with a hormone health practitioner - Hannah and we chat about how doing the DUTCH has allowed her to dive even deeper into rebalancing her hormones in a way she wasn't able to with general natural strategies alone.

Ever since Hannah hit puberty she had painful periods. Like most women, she went on birth control on and off for almost a decade. At the age of 25, by the end of her birth control journey, she had acne all over her jawline, painful breasts for like a week, insomnia 3 days before her periods, and heavy periods. It wasn’t until she started to learn about holistic nutrition, that she realized how stress can play a huge role in hormonal imbalance. Amazingly, she resolved her symptoms in just 4-6 weeks, through holistic strategies.

But a year ago, she started experiencing breast tenderness around ovulation time and increased occurrence of respiratory infections. She took the DUTCH Test to look into what was going into her body. The results showed that she had slight estrogen dominance, low testosterone, and low cortisol levels. These insights guided her toward making dietary and lifestyle changes to get rid of the symptoms she was having and fix the underlying hormonal imbalance.

Tune in to completely understand the DUTCH test and its significance for healing your hormonal imbalance.

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In this episode we talk about a topic that is missed by MOST practitioners as a sneaky root cause of anxiety - mold! Part of the reason it is so often missed is that is is not recognized by medical system as a major source of serious health problems, making it more difficult to detect. You can have 'perfect' bloodwork and still have mold illness.

Mycotoxins can enter our body through inhalation, ingestion or skin contact. Once in the body, they trigger inflammatory responses and prolonged inflammation can lead to many serious health issues such as depression, anxiety, heart palpations, panic attacks, OCD, liver damage, sleep disturbances, peripheral neuropathy, movement disorders, and much more.

In this episode I also share more about my own journey through mold illness and key steps in identifying it and treating it. The right information will help you to screen and test for mold, to properly remediate it and to detox it at the cellular level to reclaim your health.

Tune in and listen to everything you should know about mold illness!

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Welcome to The Holistic Anxiety Fix Podcast! In this episode I talk with Sarah about her amazing transformation through her experience in Holistic Anxiety Fix Program.

Sarah was struggling with postpartum anxiety for two years before she discovered me through my facebook group. She was frustrated, unable to sleep, and really on the edge. She was worried about her work and her role as a mother, as well as her children's health.

Sarah's willingness to take a leap and join the program is what ultimately led her out a potential lifetime of the chaos and struggle.

Together we worked to find the underlying cause of her symptoms. It turned out her house was full of alarmingly high levels of mold. She also scored really high in Uranium on HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis), which led to the discovery of high Radon level in her house. To reclaim her health, she had to move out of the house. 

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As you will learn by listening to this story, when you are looking for answers, working with the right professionals is key. Tune in and listen to her wonderful story!

This podcast episode is going to change your perspective about anxiety. In this episode, I interview Dr. Jared Seigler who is a functional neurologist. He talks at length about the neurological basis of anxiety and how he uses different healing techniques to cure anxiety.

According to functional neurology, anxiety is one of the primitive responses of our brain. As a result of traumatic brain injury, the brain goes into a reflexive state. When you are anxious, your brain is actually looking out for you. Emotional stress, physical stress, mold and parasites infestation, gut infections, autoimmune disorders, and head injury all can trigger the reflexive part of the brain, brainstem. 

Our brainstem controls our basic reflexes that we can’t consciously control while frontal cortex is responsible for our conscious activities. It turns out our brainstem is often stronger than our cortex, which is why we are sometime unable to control anxiety by conscious thought process. Over time, the learned behavioral reflexes get hardwired in our brain and essentially control us. To heal the brain from toxic patterns, functional neurologists use different activation techniques that stimulate selective parts of the brain. Tune in to know more about this game changing approach to healing anxiety and its benefits to restore your mental health!

To find out more about Dr. Jared, visit his website here: https://drjaredseigler.com/

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/7674Axv19QY

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In this episode, I briefly explain the reasons and ways to calm one of the most alarming symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks: heart palpitations.

Heart palpitations can be triggered by a variety of stimuli such as light, traffic, driving, physical exercise, etc. They are often accompanied by panic attacks that resemble a heart attack. But here is the thing - having palpitations due to anxiety doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with your heart medically. There are many non-medical causes of heart palpitations that are not addressed by the conventional medical system. In this episode, I go through many common, yet not well known physiological root causes of heart palpitations. Tune in to learn what they are now how you can address them holistically!

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