Episode Highlights With Kevin Gianni and Rachel Pachivas

• The environmental implications of chemical sunscreen and how these impact oceans and waterways
• Why certain countries have banned certain sunscreens because of their impact 
• Over 14,000 tons of sunscreen enter waterways every year and why this is so problematic
• How chemical sunscreens can also interact with pool sanitizers to create really toxic byproducts
• What does reef safe indicate on a sunscreen and what to actually look for 
• Why to look for non-nano zinc and titanium dioxide in sunscreen
• Lesser known ingredients in sunscreen that are really beneficial to the body
• The plastic equation and why they choose plastic free

Resources Mentioned

• Salt + Blue sunscreen
• Annmarie Gianni 

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

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 Salt + Blue

• The fear messaging around the sun and around sunscreen
• Common misconceptions about sunscreen and when it isn’t actually beneficial and can be harmful
• Harmful ingredients found in many sunscreens 
• Chemical vs mineral sunscreen and how these impact the body differently 
• Why our culture has become so afraid of the sun and how we got here
• Questioning the sunscreen prevents skin cancer narrative and what the data actually says
• Why many sunscreens on the market aren’t actually broad spectrum and don’t block the damaging parts of UVA
• What does broad spectrum mean in sunscreen and why to look for this
• Physical sunscreen like zinc are naturally broad spectrum
• What does the term waterproof on sunscreen actually mean
• The problems with petroleum in sunscreen
• Why I don’t wear sunglasses almost ever!

Resources Mentioned

• Salt + Blue
• Dminder app
• Annmarie Gianni 

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 for 50% off your first 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 Savannah

• What face mapping is and her journey that led her to develop this fascinating modality 
• She cracked her sacrum and sternum and was having 5 migraines a week and how she resolved it
• Your face speaks to what is happening in the body
• What different things in the face represent in other parts of the body 
• The pelvic floor tension connection for many women and how this also shows up in the face
• How the jaw can often be connected to hip and pelvis imbalance (it was for me)
• Pain is our friend, numb is our enemy

Resources Mentioned

• Savannah's website and her Instagram
• Face tools and face programs from Savannah
• Free face mapping tool
• Book: It Didn't Start With You

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.

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 Savannah

• What fascia is and where it is in the body
• Fascia is the web of connective tissue that covers the entire body and is an incredible electrical substance 
• It's made up of collagen fibers and is very hydration dependent
• Fascia has more nerve endings than the skin!
• How fascia gets stuck and how age and hormones affect it 
• Ways to ideally support the fascia for its best function 
• The key to fascia is speed and why movement is so important - the slower you go, the more you engage the nervous system 
• Why we can’t force the fascia to do anything and how to help it “melt” instead
• Your fascia responds to your emotional state! 
• Fascia has over 250 million nerve endings, which is over 25% more than the skin.
• Pain is a language that we need to learn to understand and when pain can be a teacher
• Emotions and pain are really only around for about 12 seconds if we are present with them
• Stuck fascia and aging and how this might be the most powerful non-invasive solution we have
• How to release fascia and remobilize areas that have been stuck 
• You can mobilize fascia in as little as ten minutes a day!
• Fascia might be the interface between the physical body and the emotional/energetic body

Resources Mentioned

• Savannah's website and her Instagram
• Face tools and face programs from Savannah
• Free face mapping tool
• Jill Miller's Fascia work on Instagram
• Lose Your Mind: The Path to Creative Invincibility

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

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 David

• What sound healing is and why he’s sensitive around the term healing 
• His invitation through his music is for people to feel deeply 
• Science and spirituality and how they can meet in the realm of sound 
• The universe is full of things that vibrate, and while humans can only see and hear a small part of the visible and audible spectrum, we can feel more
• His albums are two hour explorations of non-ordinary states of consciousness through sound
• How sound can impact the nervous system and induce non-ordinary states of consciousness with our internal neurotransmitters 
• What he inadvertently discovered about the nervous system through data of his listeners 
• Hypnogogic states- the states between sleep and wakefulness and how sound can help us enter them

Resources Mentioned

• The Harmonic series images
• David's Linktree
• David's website

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.

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 and use code wellnessmama for 20% off!

Episode Highlights With David

• Where the name The Human Experience came from and how he realized that creativity came through him and not from him
• His incredible journey with creativity and why the world doesn’t innately reward creatives 
• How experiences of guilt, blame, or shame kill our creativity as children and how to remember and tune back into it 
• Ways to access the creative spirit and how we all can in some form 
• Facing our edges without needing to be perfect and leaning into the creative spirit 
• Accept and allow and release guilt, blame, and shame 
• The two parts of his creative process: the mind and the no mind 
• Mind= toolbox, no mind = feeling not thinking 
• “We don’t play music, music plays us.” - David Block
• Creativity as an intrinsically spiritual process, like birthing a child

Resources Mentioned

• David's website
• David's Linktree

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 for 50% off your first 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 Katie

• Why chronic fight-or-flight is not an emotional problem but a physiological state driven by your biology
• How the nervous system decides whether you’re safe or unsafe — often without your conscious awareness
• The specific ways stress, trauma, overwhelm, and modern life keep the body stuck in survival mode
• Why you can’t heal digestion, hormones, immunity, energy, or inflammation until your body feels safe
• How your brain, vagus nerve, mitochondria, and hormones respond when your body is in a threat state
• The difference between “danger physiology” and “safety physiology” — and how each shapes your symptoms
• Why mindset alone can’t regulate your nervous system (but the right habits can)
• The real role of light, minerals, hydration, movement, and sleep in telling your body it’s safe
• How to recognize when your body is signaling overwhelm vs. when it’s ready for expansion
• Daily practices that help shift your system from fight-or-flight into repair, digestion, fertility, and resilience
• How rewriting internal language (“I am sick” ? “I am healing”) sends safety cues at a cellular level
• Why expanding your capacity is more effective than trying to “eliminate stress”
• Practical steps to build a physiology of safety — one that supports long-term health, joy, and adaptability

Resources Mentioned

• Jaspr air scrubber
• Water filters I love and recommend 

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 for 50% off your first order.

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 Melissa

• Her story that led to the work she does now
• What she means by you’re not broken, just misaligned 
• Her journey through Lyme and Mold toxicity 
• How two-minute micromoments can shift the whole baseline of our lives
• Different brainwave states and how they affect our mood and other parts of life
• A short tool that she uses daily that shifted her brain waves dramatically 
• How to align with our brainwaves to be able to be more present in the moments that matter
• Self-care needs a rebrand 
• How lighting affects brain waves
• The power of play and how it can be so effective for shifting overwhelm 
• What regulation reps are and how this 2-minute activity can make a huge difference 
• How to access theta brain states and why this is so important

Resources Mentioned

• The Connection Code Book
• Self-With Checklist
• Urgency Reset Masterclass: Real Time Nervous System Downshifts For High-Capacity Women
• Dr. Melissa's website
• Follow her on Facebook and Instagram
• Be Inspired Mama podcast
• Healthy home lighting

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.

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

Episode Highlights With Andrew

• His health crisis that led to a spiritual journey and the work he does now
• We are not just electromagnetic beings but truly beings of light
• Science and history show that we are light beings and can transition with our bodies into a higher dimension
• What he means when he talks about ascention and the two types he encountered in his research
• Examples of this light ascension from various religious traditions
• How our bodies have more energy in them than nuclear power plants. We are mostly space with frozen light that has incredible potential power
• The observer theory and our thoughts/emotions creating reality and how this relates
• We know from quantum physics that everything is connected
• How we can each apply some aspects of this into our lives to shift into our greatest potential 
• The “holistic diet” of everything we encounter with food, information, interactions, etc.
• We know scientifically that our emotion's wellbeing and our physical health depend on our emotional feelings, especially ones like love and gratitude

Resources Mentioned

• Illumine Consultants
• Andrew's website
• Bodies of Light - Andrew's book

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

• Drama triangle roles and the language that sustains each
• Family and relationship examples: how roles rotate and recruit each other
• Sneaky savior behaviors and why they keep the cycle spinning
• The Law of Request and why consent protects dignity and growth
• Language shifts: identity, experience, should, choice, fixing, witnessing
• Role-specific practices to move toward Creator, Challenger-with-care, and Coach/Companion
• Repair scripts and weekly check-ins for real-life change

Resources Mentioned

• Zach Bush MD on Forgiveness, Leadership, and The New Humanity | Conscious 500 Speaker Series
• Kelly Brogan podcast
• The Reclaimed Woman - by Kelly Brogan MD

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

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 for 50% off your first order.