Episode Highlights With Dr. Marty Makary

• What we need to know about allergens and our kids
• Why we are seeing an epidemic of allergies in kids that isn’t happening in other parts of the world
• Where the misinformation about peanut allergies came from
• The basic concept of immune tolerance that experts ignored and why early exposure can be helpful
• What we need to know about responsible antibiotic use in our kids
• Adopting a more informed and balanced understanding of health for our kids' sake
• Research-backed best practices around childbirth when possible
• How skin-to-skin contact with mom immediately after birth can even improve the brain of the baby
• What to know about nutrition and the things we accept about raising kids that are worth questioning 
• The data about screen usage and added sugar in kids and when these become safer for kids' brains

Resources We Mention

• Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary, MD
• Marty Makary, MD - Website
• Ready Set Food

Episode Highlights With Dr. Marty Makary

• Why humans resist new ideas so strongly 
• What dogma is and the psychology behind it 
• The reason our minds are so happy and comfortable with one belief and why we resist new ideas
• What impeccable objectivity is and how to cultivate it
• The founder's effect and how what we hear first can be so impactful 
• Red flags of unquestioned authority and how to recognize them
• Blind spots related to hormone replacement therapy and our food pyramid
• Myths related to the dangers of hormone replacement and what the data actually says
• Places biases and blind spots show up in nutrition and health and what the evidence actually says
• What really causes heart disease and our blind spots related to health and nutrition
• His take on seed oils and what he found in his investigative journalism around this topic
• What linoleic acid is and what you need to know about it
• Fascinating data about antibiotic use, especially early in life

Resources We Mention

• Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Dr. Marty Makary
• Marty Makary, MD - His Website

Episode Highlights With Eli Harwood

• How to tell if your relationship with your child is secure or insecure
• Ways to strengthen the attachment with your child
• Attachment is like a dance and how this is helpful to understand 
• A strong attachment with parent/child only depends on us being responsive and “getting it right” 30-50% of the time
• This is not a perfection game… it's about showing up enough so our kids know we are there for them and leaders in repair when we don’t show up perfectly 
• The things every kid needs to hear from their parents
• Does your child have a feeling or a message from you that they feel that their presence is delightful 
• The importance of making sure our kids hear and feel things along the lines of: I love having you near me, I got you, your pain is not a burden to me, I believe in you, you got this, and I’m sorry
• Ways to help our children feel safe opening up even about the hard things and big feelings at various ages
• What attachment transfer is and why it matters
• Specific advice for navigating the teen years 
• The distinction between your feelings matter and they don’t always dictate the situation

Resources We Mention

• Eli Harwood - Website
• Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Attachment Nerd) by Eli Harwood

Episode Highlights With Eli Harwood

• How she had a body part eaten by a bear!
• What attachment theory is when it comes to parenting 
• How the quality of our caregiving relationships in childhood affect our development
• What attachment figures are and why this matters
• Attachment is the study of close relationships
• What the indicators of healthy attachment are and how to understand these relational patterns
• How to help your child be securely attached to you
• Babies are born with a relatively developed limbic system but not a fully developed prefrontal cortex and why this matters because babies co-regulate with caregivers
• How early childhood relational patterns can show up in adult relationships 
• The four attachment patterns that can develop and how they develop
• How to become aware of your own relational and attachment style 
• The most powerful thing we can do to improve our attachment patterns

Resources We Mention

• Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Attachment Nerd) by Eli Harwood
• Eli Harwood - Website

Episode Highlights With Mastin Kipp

• A reason to move away from categorizing emotions as good or bad
• Every emotional response we have makes sense from a safety perspective
• Why he doesn’t believe in self-sabotage, and why self-protection is different
• How shifting understanding of emotions can change our experience drastically 
• We have to recognize and shift childhood conditioning around the nervous system to achieve the life that we want
• Personal development is going to create inner conflict, and inner conflict is a sign of growth
• The presence of inner conflict indicates a desire
• He looks at goal-setting as a therapeutic process
• How to not let the most traumatized parts of us be in the driver's seat
• When we're younger, there can be negative consequences to being our authentic self
• Your inner critic is how you parent yourself, and this voice can be a good indicator of how we feel about ourselves
• Why to ask “when was that true” in doing parts work
• No emotion is an enemy, and emotions are biochemistry 
• There are 7 emotional pathways in our bodies 
• If you have a fear of an emotion, you are afraid of yourself
• That which cannot be expressed to the mother cannot be expressed to the self
• Children are a place to contribute unconditional love but not extract it 
• The greatest burden a child bears is the unlived life of the parent

Resources We Mention

• Reclaim Your Nervous System: A Guide to Positive Change, Mental Wellness, and Post-Traumatic Growth by Mastin Kipp
• Mastin Kipp - Instagram

Episode Highlights With Mastin Kipp

• Why the nervous system is so important and impacts so many areas of health
• How to set the nervous system up for success
• Understanding how young children are co-regulated to our nervous systems
• Different nervous system states have different metabolic demands on the body
• How our metabolic energy can be diverted into stress hormones
• What vagal tone is, and why this matters
• Fight or flight is a very metabolic expensive state to be in, and this can affect many areas of health
• Safety is the precursor to healing the nervous system 
• Regulating the nervous system needs resources: safe relationships, glucose, and oxygen 
• Why breathwork can be so impactful… the biology makes sense
• Calm and regulated are not the same thing

Resources We Mention

• Reclaim Your Nervous System: A Guide to Positive Change, Mental Wellness, and Post-Traumatic Growth by Mastin Kipp
• Mastin Kipp - Website
• Mastin Kipp - Instagram

Episode Highlights With Lauren and Marsha

• The very early diagnosis that Lauren received and the amazing journey that unfolded 
• How a mother’s intuition was so important in the early days of diagnosis
• The amazing spiritual experiences that unfolded for them
• How she trusted her intuition and said no to steroids 
• The journey to healing
• How they navigated the teenage years and rebellion

Resources We Mention

• Lauren Vaknine - Website
• Lauren Vaknine - Instagram
• Lauren Vaknine - TED Talk
• RISE Program

Episode Highlights With Susan Fox

• What it means to cycle sync with the seasons
• Things we may not know about the menstrual cycle and what we can learn from our cycles
• What are the seasons related to our cycles, and how to sync with them
• How to nourish yourself through different parts of our cycles 
• The importance of light and of getting more in alignment with natural light cycles
• If you track your cycle, what changes can tell you and what to pay attention to

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Susan Fox - website
• Dr. Susan Fox - Podcast

Episode Highlights With Susan Fox

• Why she feels that infertility as a diagnosis is incomplete, and what we need to know about it
• The difference between subfertility and infertility and why the distinction is important 
• Diagnostic codes that go along with infertility and why it doesn’t tell the whole story
• Shocking statistics around fertility and why this is important to understand
• What the 5-element model is, and how can this help with fertility and so many other aspects of health
• The five elements: wood (liver/creation), fire (spirit/soothing), earth (transformation/PCOS), air (lungs and large intestine/inspiration), water (kidney/hormonal health)
• How the Chinese element model includes our emotional experience 
• The way to know which Chinese element you are
• Tips and tips for supporting each element 

Resources We Mention

• Fertility Quiz
• Dr. Susan Fox - website
• Healthyouniversity
• The Women's Health Podcast

Episode Highlights With Cristina from Everbella

• How she went from living in a city to living on a homestead with her kids and growing food and raising animals
• Her health journey that led to the work she does today
• Hair health is an inside story, and internal nutrients make a big difference
• What hair is made out of and how to support it from the inside out
• How stress can affect hair health
• What cortisol does to estrogen levels and hair 
• The five ways hormonal changes affect hair 
• How hair grows and why understanding this can help support it
• The four different cycles of hair growth 
• How hormone changes can get your hair stuck in the shedding phase
• Warning signs to look for before your hair starts falling out
• How to support the body in producing the right amount of estrogen 
• Ways to support healthy hair with nutrition and supplementation
• Yet another reason protein is important… this time for hair 
• The most effective nutrients for supporting estrogen levels and healthy hair production
• You can’t produce keratin without biotin
• The unusual foods and nutrients that drastically support hair that you might not be getting 
• Hair healthy reasons to get the right amount of sunlight

Resources We Mention

• Everbella - Use code wellnessmama40 for a discount
• D Minder app