The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Laurie

• What children are subtly learning about being human by our own presence and reactions
• Our children can bump into places in us that are not resolved
• What they learn about if sadness or anger is welcome even within themselves
• How to shift so your child isn’t inadvertently responsible for managing our nervous system for us
• The most powerful things we can model for our children and it isn’t being perfect
• How can my child know what I feel without making them responsible for what I feel
• Children don’t need a parent who never gets activated; they need to know that they won’t be abandoned because of the activation
• How do we listen and communicate in a way where each person is taking responsibility for their perspectives
• Empathy and boundaries can exist together, and the downside of doing everything for our kids is that it makes us feel good, but they learn that we don’t think they are capable
• Not every childhood pattern looks dysfunctional from the outside. Maybe I became patient because anger wasn’t safe. Or I do everything because being needed feels like love
• Questioning: “Am I choosing this or am I compelled to do this?”
• Our job is not to make our children happy, it is to alow them to struggle and teach them they can handle it, to teach them all parts of them are welcome and they are still responsible for their actions 
• Moving away from reactive parenting to intentional parenting and how to repair when needed
• “Who are we committed to being as a family?”
• Learning and teaching the distinction between doing and being
• How to repair when we don’t handle things like we wish we had

Resources Mentioned

• The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
• The One Thing Underneath Everything
• Follow her on Facebook, and Instagram
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! book

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

Episode Highlights From Laurie

• Why just knowing why we do something isn’t enough to shift it
• Her start in psychology and what she learned through her own experience as well
• How to be freer inside moments that used to run you 
• What does the body have to do with changing emotional patterns
• It isn’t that behavioral change is unimportant; it is just a doorway, not the destination
• Often, the pattern starts in the body before the mind, but we think it starts in the mind, and that we can change it only with the mind
• The body becomes a doorway into slowing down and how this is so important
• Can you notice what is happening inside of you without trying to change it or explain it
• Experience is made up of three things: thoughts, feelings, and physical experience
• What does SEE - BREATHE - STAY look like in an ordinary moment?
• Differentiating what happened vs. what we make it mean
• Healing in a relationship: Can I bring those old activations into the relationship 
• The difference between mindfulness and actually staying with ourselves in emotional moments
• Being aware of not bypassing or abandoning when staying with a feeling
• Not “can I get rid of this feeling” but “can I remain with myself while the feeling is still here”
• We spend so much of our life trying to control our external world so we don’t have to feel certain things, and how to shift this

Resources Mentioned

• Follow her on Facebook, and Instagram
• The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
• The One Thing Underneath Everything

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Angel

• What iridology is and how it actually works
• Her work with thousands of people and how the eye can be an insight into health
• How she got into this work and how this has been practiced for centuries
• There are 28,000 nerve endings that come into the eye
• Iridology can’t see blood pressure or blood, but can see most other things
• This is not a diagnostic tool but a complementary one
• What stress lines are in the eyes, and what they can indicate
• Personality lines in the eyes and what they can tell you about someone 
• What shows up most in women and moms, and the patterns she sees most
• Her Iris-Hormone map and what she can see based on these
• Cortisol is the base of the hormone hierarchy, and she sees this in many people
• Her one-week plan to help start moving cortisol in a positive direction
• Eyes do not lie (but people can)
• There are four spots in the eye that show the pancreas and can indicate a person is consuming too much sugar for them, even if they think they are low-carb
• Importance of real food protein
• Thyroid deep dive related to the eye
• Some easy and free tools to improve insulin sensitivity 
• Too much exercise and under-eating can be big problems, especially for women
• She looks at the gut whenever the thyroid is off

Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Angel's website and free gift
• Follow Angel on Instagram and Facebook

Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 

Episode Highlights With Laila

• How to create a strong family foundation with structure, values, healthy habits and connection
• Boxing was her outlet when she was younger and what she learned through that
• Why she wrote a children's book to inspire kids to follow their spark
• The importance of physical outlets for kids 
• Why her dad didn’t want her to box and why she did it anyway

Resources Mentioned

• Connect with Laila on Instagram and Facebook
• A Spark of Greatness: The Autobiography of a Fighter by Laila Ali
• Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit and Personal Power by Laila Ali
• Free signed, personalized book plates from Laila
• Laila Ali Lifestyle - Spice blends

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

Episode Highlights With Lora and Elmira

• How they got into looking deeper at the oral microbiome and the connection to oral health
• Root cause factors of oral health that many people don’t realize 
• Oral health can be a missing part of the puzzle that most people don’t look into
• What oral testing is and what it can help reveal
• The specific pathogens they test for and the ones they actively work on
• Oral environment is microbially rich and the balance of bacteria matters
• Most common things they see flagged on oral tests and which ones they take seriously 
• A big myth about oral microbiome balance 
• H. pylori can appear in the mouth and be linked to periodontal disease
• How the airway can impact oral health and why this is important, especially with kids

Resources Mentioned

• Orobiome Test
• Follow Laura on Instagram

Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Christine

• Over-functioning and why capable, efficient people end up doing everything, but how to break the cycle
• This can look like competence but be connected to control and safety starting in childhood
• How can we actually break the pattern of over-functioning 
• “If I stop doing all this, bad things will happen” and the myth of that belief
• The question of "will I still be valued if I don’t do everything for everyone?"
• For true change to happen, there is usually chaos in between
• It’s never too late to have a great childhood
• Nervous system tips for re-patterning the over-functioning 
• How have you set yourself up so that people can’t help you?
• Ways to help our kids develop a healthy foundation without over-functioning 
• We are usually subconsciously attracted to people who remind us of the patterns of our family of origin
• The female nervous system needs to feel safe and can feel this from the masculine through consistency and presence 
• What happens to a relationship when women are overfunctioning 
• Hypervigilance looks like being too “in the masculine” and protecting yourself from relationships
• Women can try to create safety through control

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

Resources Mentioned

• Christine's website including the Love Magnet workshop
• Christine's books

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why light is the most important “nutrient” your body receives each day
• How natural light and darkness influence metabolism, hormones, gut health, and circadian rhythm
• How blue light after dark affects melatonin, glucose, mood, and inflammation
• Why sunrise light is nature’s most important daily reset button
• The difference between UV, visible light, and infrared ... and how each impacts biology
• How to align light exposure with your biology for better sleep, energy, and emotional regulation
• Simple, family-friendly ways to create a light-friendly home
• The 10 rules I personally follow (flexibly) to keep my circadian system aligned
  Why light exposure is more foundational than diet or exercise
• How to start improving your light hygiene in just one day

Resources Mentioned

• Follow Peter Forhan on Instagram
• Follow Roudy Nassif on Instagram
• The Light Body by Peter Forhan
• My Circadian app

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 

Episode Highlights With Colleen

• How hormones affect hair health for women
• Why hair loss can increase in perimenopause 
• The reason thyroid and medication can affect hair
• Nutritional deficiencies that affect hair 
• How PCOS affects hair health and growth
• Insulin resistance can come into play as well
• Understanding the connection of thyroid problems and hair loss
• Hypo and hyperthyroidism both can cause hair loss
• What is a normal amount of hair loss, and how to know if it is too much
• Nutritional factors that influence hair health or loss: collagen 
• How GLPs affect hair loss and why these can increase hair loss (plus how to help avoid that)
• The problem with some topics and prescriptions that can slow hair loss
• A compound that works naturally to slow and stop excess hair loss and why it works

Resources Mentioned

Purality Health - 40% off Hair Renewal with code WELLNESSMAMA40

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

Episode Highlights With Torrie

• How living in Thailand inspired her current work and what she learned about Eastern medicine
• Her own health story and how this inspired the work she does
• Biggest missing factors in health and wellness that some people miss
• In Asia, they look at lifestyle first, and how this shifted her approach
• What she learned about herbalism on her own journey
• The root cause of all root causes
• Why are we seeing an increase in toxic load in the modern world?
• How to support the body in healing naturally 
• Important things to know to detox without overloading the body
• Why she recommends test, don’t guess
• Parasites are a piece of the puzzle for a lot of people
• How to show your liver some love and support it in health
• Ways to support the lymphatic system effectively: movement and hydration

Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Torrie's Website
• Follow Torrie on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram
• Dry brushes for lymph system
• LMNT Minerals

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why your identity (especially your “I am…” statements) shapes biology more than any protocol
• How the nervous system responds chemically and electrically to the language you use about your body
• The difference between identifying with your symptoms vs. identifying as someone who is healing
• How subconscious narratives can keep you stuck in illness patterns, even when your actions are “healthy”
• The surprising way language influences your mitochondria, redox balance, and stress responses
• Why your thoughts become safety signals or threat signals
• How to rewrite your internal scripts from limitation ? expansion
• Real examples from my own healing journey (AIP, chronic symptoms, identity shifts)

Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!