Welcome to episode 17!

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, my husband, Mark, is back as my guest co-host as we continue with Part 2 of our discussion on “marriage, money and manifesting”. We revisit power dynamics in relationships and my take on how pop culture has eroded healthy power dynamics between men and women. We do a deep dive into money and discuss our ‘true currency’, our money blocks and how we moved beyond them to create more abundance and peace in our marriage. We also discuss manifesting, and what we believe to be true about co-creating with the Divine and how it’s possible to shape your reality. This is a juicy episode, enjoy!

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• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
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Welcome to episode 16!

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, I’m joined by my husband, Mark, as my guest co-host as we discuss part 1 of “marriage, money and manifesting”. We share our relationship backgrounds (both coming from divorce), how we found each other and my hesitancy to get married again. We also discuss power dynamics in relationships, re-examining gender roles and what a healthy  marriage looks like for us as two individuals growing together with a common vision.

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.

Welcome to episode 15!

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, I’m joined by my sister, Elyse, as my guest co-host as we discuss “muscle as medicine” and why muscle matters for not only our metabolic health and releasing extra weight, but also as a potent anti-ager, a powerful tool to balance hormones, beat  fatigue, boost mood and so much more. 

In this episode we cover:

• Our background and history with strength training
• How muscle contributes to overall metabolic health, helping maintain or achieve a healthy body weight
• Muscle as a potent anti-ager and why every woman would want to lift weights
• How muscle helps boost energy and heal fatigue
• Resources for strength training and how to get started
• Cardio vs strength training and why you may want to do less cardio and focus on weights
• How muscle helps to balance hormones and prevent, and help treat chronic illness. 
• The mind-body connection with strength training: meditation + confidence + endorphins
• The importance of protein and how to optimally ‘feed’ muscle
• Resources we both personally use and love

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
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Welcome to episode 14!

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, I’m joined by Cassandra Strunk, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner and mom of 4 who helps women find true health and resiliency throughout motherhood.

Cassandra shares her story of awakening to her personal power through a series of life altering events. After losing herself amid isolation, depression and almost ending up in jail, Cassandra tells the story of how she decided to become the hero of her life, awaken the warrior within and rise from the ashes. 

In this episode we cover:

• Cassandra’s story of becoming a mother of 4; losing and then finding herself again through a crazy journey
• How your life changes when becoming a mom and recognizing postpartum depression and social isolation 
• Using food and alcohol to cope with depression and isolation
• Claiming self-sovereignty and deciding to be the hero of your life
• Waking the warrior within and advocating for yourself
• The power of simple self-care choices and how they can change your day and inspire more empowering choices
• Reinventing yourself and starting over
• Self-advocacy, self-worth, taking your power back and taking control of your health 
• Choosing between being a victim to circumstances or rising to the occasion and empowering yourself 
• Not needing permission from anyone to listen to your intuition and heal yourself
• Taking responsibility for yourself and your health
• Weight-gain, anxiety and depression as signals of mis-alignment 
• Listening to our bodies and the messages they give us through symptoms
• Mothering our children while we heal ourselves on our healing journey
• Modeling the hero’s journey and how to move through hard things for our children
• Modeling healthy emotions for our children

Connect with Cassandra:

• Follow Cassandra on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healwithcassandra/
• Website: www.cassandrastrunk.com

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
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Welcome to episode 13

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, I am joined by my friend and colleague Dr. Katherine Kremblewski ND. 

In addition to helping mamas train to be “MDs” (mama doctors!) Kat also staunchly advocates for sober motherhood, having quit drinking alcohol herself in early January 2021 after years of "socially acceptable" drinking habits that were ruining her mental health and ability to parent.

Kat and I do a deep dive into the topic of alcohol and motherhood as she shares a particularly sobering moment when she decided that her relationship with alcohol needed to change. 

In this episode we cover:

• Kat’s journey with alcohol and why she decided to give it up
• Examining our relationship with alcohol as women and mothers 
• “Mommy wine culture” and how it’s corroding the sacred bond with our families
• How as moms and women we’ve gone through a tremendous cultural shift 
• The role that alcohol plays in our culture for stress relief and social bonding
• The elephant in the room: humor and its role in exposing our collective pain
• Reclaiming our sovereignty in how we live our lives
• Mothering from a place of imperfection and empowerment
• Taking responsibility for our emotions and doing “the work”
• How to cope and what to do with intense emotions
• Alternative ways to deal with stress other than drinking that support our mental health and well-being

Connect with Dr. Kat:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenaturokat/
• Website: theawakenedmama.ca

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.

Welcome to episode 12!

On this episode of The Nest Podcast, I’m joined by my friend Marisa Shearer as my co-host, as I share Part 2 of my healing journey. Marisa and I speak candidly and I don’t hold back as I share honestly about my health journey these last few years as I’ve healed myself from Epstein Barr, debilitating fatigue and uncovered the root cause of unexpected weight-gain. I share what I did to help heal myself PLUS I share a new way to view the challenges that come our way as we heal. 

In this episode we cover:

• Healing Epstein Barr - alternative & natural methods 
• Chronic fatigue & living in a way that embraces the divine feminine 
• The divine masculine & the divine feminine as opposites & how we need the balance of both 
• How to embrace a season of rest in our lives 
• Toxicity & weight loss resistance 
• When calories in vs calories out no longer work 
• Mindset & how important it is for the healing journey 
• The universal pattern of transformation that we as humans experience 
• How life is always inviting us to the adventure of transformation 
• The journey of changing negative beliefs & rising strong
• Making the connection between extra weight & toxicity levels 
• Neuroplasticity & rewiring our brains by creating different perceptions & narratives that foster healing & positive change
• The miracles that happen when we choose to partner with our bodies versus work against them 

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Work with me: explore my programs
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.

Resources mentioned during this episode:

> Finding Joe, the movie

> Treatments mentioned for Epstein Barr:

• Cordyceps mushrooms
• Glycyrrhiza glabra
• Monolaurin
• Scutellaria baicalensis
• Olive leaf extract
• Ozone treatments 

Welcome to episode 11!

In this final episode of season 1 my friend Marisa Shearer is joining me as we delve into an array of topics surrounding how we consciously navigate endings and beginnings in our lives. We discuss how to move through them with intention and purpose and how to meaningfully reflect on the year past and consciously prepare for the new year ahead. We also discuss the magic the winter season has to offer us as we enter the womb of winter.

In this episode we cover:

• The gifts offered during this time of year as we transition from fall to winter and the wheel of the year beginning again with Winter Solstice on December 21st
• The gifts of ‘winter’ and what it means to be in the ‘womb of winter’ or a ‘fertile void’; going inward, reflection and rest, and how we can create this in our lives
• Cyclical living and consciously creating our lives with joy and meaning vs unconsciously living the life others want for us 
• How different emotions have different vibrational frequencies; emotions being ‘energy in motion’ 
• Endings and beginnings: how to navigate them with intention and purpose
• How to meaningfully reflect on the year past and consciously prepare for the new year ahead
• The importance of creating a women’s circle or group setting to foster community, move through ritual, create meaning and celebrate together. 
• The REAL purpose of a vision board and what it means to create your own ‘north star’
• How ‘not lose your sh*t over the Holidays’ and the FREE group inspirational challenge launching early December (for more details join Dr. Maryska’s email list, The Sunday Scoop, below)

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.

Welcome to episode 10!

On this episode I’m joined by Ali Ramos, or as some know her “That Endo Gal”. Ali shares her incredible story of healing her endometriosis by healing her trauma and deep wounds from childhood. After 13 years of living with clinical stage 4 endometriosis, countless treatments, 5 failed surgeries, multiple hormone therapies, and living life on 6-8 different medications daily, she hit a rock bottom. 

In 2018 after returning from a year of traveling with her now husband, she was admitted to California's UC Davis pain clinic. In order to be a participant, she had to agree to return to therapy. As fate would have it, she was paired with someone that practices Psychoneuroimmunology (a mind-body discipline that has evolved in the last 40 years to study the relationship between immunity, the endocrine system, and the central and peripheral nervous systems). At the time she had no idea what this would mean, but after 65 therapy sessions over the span of 3 years, she was able to move through her adverse childhood events, reduce her chronic pain symptoms, work to alleviate insomnia, and as she says, "meet her Inner Child." 

Her symptoms of Endometriosis have been in remission since November of 2020, and after 27 months of medication tapers, she is finally free of pharmaceuticals. Since then Ali has left the career that she now says was reinforcing her co-dependent patterns and has created her own virtual services to help other women suffering with Endometriosis. 

In this episode we cover:

• Ali shares her journey with severe endometriosis and how she found healing through holistic and alternative means including trauma work, counseling and psychedelics. 
• Endometriosis: what it is, and alternative ways to heal it
• Why we need to “feel it to heal it” and how the mind-body connection can help offer hope for those suffering with endometriosis 
• How our emotional wounds live in the body and can manifest as dis-ease
• The limitations of conventional medicine and how holistic & chinese medicine, cyclical living and connecting to our innate feminine blueprint (aka infradian rhythm) can be incredibly healing addressing the root cause of ‘dis-ease’
• How every woman needs to know about her menstrual cycle and biological blueprint/infradian rhythm in order to be empowered to heal and thrive

Connect with Ali Ramos:

• Instagram: @thatendogal
• Website: https://www.aliramos.co

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
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Welcome to episode 9!

On this episode I’m joined by Lara J. Day. She is the author of the 13 Holy Nights Oracle Deck and a Neurogenic Qigong practitioner. Her unique and innovative healing method interweaves Chinese energy medicine with tension and trauma-releasing work. She’s been teaching energy arts since 2003 when she came to learn of Qigong through her own healing journey.

Lara and I discuss the topic of energy medicine and how she has blended Qigong with TRE® (Trauma and Tension Release Exercises), for people suffering with stress, anxiety, trauma or PTSD. 

We also dive into an enlightening conversation about the mystery of the unseen and not only how it relates to her energy work combining TRE and Qigong, but also in the spiritual practice of the 13 Holy Nights, and how it can help us reclaim the sacred energy of the holiday season. 

In this episode we cover:

• How our healing journey informs our work in the world
• Qigong, what it is, how it works and how its used for healing
• Trauma and ways to heal and release trauma, and tension from the body
• The wisdom that’s held in our bodies and how to tune into it
• Having faith in the mysteries of energy medicine and the unseen world
• The sacred feminine and reclaiming the magic and wonder of the holiday season
• The concept of the fertile void (winter) and the healing power of cyclical living
• How to reclaim the sacred energy of the holiday season through The 13 Holy Nights practice. 

Connect with Lara J Day:

• Instagram @larajday
• Learn more about The 13 Holy Nights
• Learn more about Neurogenic Qigong and how to work with Lara. 

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.

Welcome to episode 8!

In this episode I’m joined by my friend Dr. Meghan O’Reilly. Meghan is a naturopathic doctor focused on nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, and examines health and well-being from an individualistic, mind-body approach.

Meghan also has a keen interest in the emerging field of plant medicine and has traveled more than once to remote areas to receive the healing medicine of ayahuasca directly from shamans who’ve devoted their life to sharing this healing medicine with the world. 

In this episode Meghan and I speak about the fascinating topic of psychedelic plant medicine, what it is, the different types, the benefits, as well as our personal experiences traveling to the jungle to try it for ourselves. If you’re at all curious about the topic of plant medicine, you don’t want to miss this episode. 

In this episode we cover:

• Plant medicine, what it is and the different types
• How and why plant medicine is being used to heal
• The benefits of plant medicine/psychedelics in healing trauma, entering the subconscious space and understanding the mind
• Ayahuasca: where it comes from, what it is, and how it’s used
• Our experience taking ayahuasca with shamans in the jungle
• Where to start if you’re curious about this healing medicine

Connect with Dr. Meghan: [email protected]

Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru: https://templeofthewayoflight.org/

Watch the series trailer How to Change Your Mind via Netflix HERE

Connect with Dr. Maryska:

• www.drmaryskataylor.com
• Instagram: @drmaryskataylornd
• Learn more about The Nest Community 
• Sign-up for my newsletter, The Sunday Scoop, and get weekly inspiration to nourish your mind, body & soul.