The Wellness Witch Podcast

How do you overcome doubts and doubters? Founder and CEO of Hint Water, Kara Goldin shares her powerful story about transforming her health and building a business.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode139

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Healthy perception vs healthy reality
• The major misconception about entrepreneurs
• The journey of starting a company 
• Turning a journal into a book
• What it means to be undaunted 

Key Takeaways:

• The happiest people are those who are constantly learning.
• The three things that separate great entrepreneurs are their curiosity, their willingness to try, and knowing that it’s possible to fail.
• Being undaunted means to keep trying even if there’s a possibility that you’re going to fail. It’s knowing that failure is all part of the journey and taking risks along the way.
• Most of the time entrepreneurs are living undaunted, but they don’t have everything figured out. 

Action Steps:

• Be a lifelong learner.
• When running a business, figure out your options.
• Look back in life and business and celebrate the wins. 

Kara said:

“You have to be learning constantly… And if you get to a point where you’re just directing and you’re not learning, then I think that that’s where unhappiness and lots of other key issues start to develop that people just assume are for other reasons.”

“I had seen such a shift in my own health that I felt like -- and still feel today -- that if we could get people to enjoy water, whether that clean tap water or a product like Hint, that we would change health in the world.” 

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 5 Day Sugar Detox Challenge yet, download it now! It’s so easy to follow and you’re going to love it. 

Sign up for our newsletter at holisticwellness.ca/newsletter! And don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out the NEW Organifi Harmony Women's Hormone Balancing Blend. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They’re great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Head to your local health food store and check out some amazing products from Garden of Life. Garden of Life Plant Iron and Herbs and their vegan vitamin D3 spray are two fantastic products - https://www.gardenoflife.com

Where you can find Kara Goldin:

Kara’s Instagram (@karagoldin)

Kara’s Facebook

Kara’s Website

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

How can you incorporate a clean keto diet approach to supporting and balancing your hormones as well as losing weight? Nutritionist and mompreneur Lesya Holzapfel shares her tips and strategies, especially for busy moms.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode138.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Overcoming sugar addiction and going sugar-free
• Strategies for hormone regulation
• Addressing adrenal burnout
• The keto diet and doing it the right way
• Keto carb cycling
• The scale weight
• Mindset work

Key Takeaways:

• The premise of the keto diet is to help people understand the effect of eating too many carbs, especially highly processed, refined carbs, and too much sugar. It helps regulate your hormones and helps your body transition to only burning glucose for fuel to fat for fuel, and allowing you the flexibility to do both later on.
• Two important things to take into account when it comes to weight loss are sleep and stress.
• It’s never a good idea to measure your weight when you’re on your period.
• The scale doesn’t always give us the full picture when it comes to our weight loss journey. It doesn’t take into account water and sodium retention and hormonal fluctuations.

Action Steps:

• Have a morning routine that sets up your whole day for success.
• Practice meditation.
• Keep a journal.
• Don’t take scale weight at face value.
• Don’t listen to your negative thoughts.
• Know your WHY.
• Surround yourself with people that can support you and get plugged into a community

Lesya said:

“My mindset was ‘What’s the lowest hanging fruit?’...So I looked at my food, and I looked at ‘What is it that I’m eating now that’s disrupting my gut?”

“I realized that the only way to beat sugar addiction is to quit sugar… You have to give it up.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 5 Day Sugar Detox Challenge yet, download it now! It’s so easy to follow and you’re going to love it.

Sign up for our newsletter at holisticwellness.ca/newsletter! And don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out the NEW Organifi Harmony Women's Hormone Balancing Blend. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They’re great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Head to your local health food store and check out some amazing products from Garden of Life. Garden of Life Plant Iron and Herbs and their vegan vitamin D3 spray are two fantastic products - https://www.gardenoflife.com
• Holosync: https://www.centerpointe.com/

Where you can find Lesya Holzapfel:

Lesya’s Website (BSB Tribe)

Lesya’s Instagram (@eatbefitexplore)

BSB Tribe's Instagram (@bsbtribe)

Lesya’s Podcast (Fit Moms Squad Podcast)

Lesya’s Facebook

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

In this fully packed episode, we chat with Dr. Nichole Morris about a variety of topics around women’s health, including some of the best lifestyle hacks and strategies that we can implement in our day-to-day life for overall vitality.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode137.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Root cause medicine
• The connection between anxiety and gut health
• The causes of anxiety
• Homeopathy and biotherapeutic drainage
• The role the liver plays in our healing
• Lifestyle hacks for overall vitality
• Medical freedom and transparency in healthcare
• The PAR-Q
• Why 5G could be harmful to our health

Key Takeaways:

• Human beings are complex. We’re a physical body, but we’re also a mental, emotional and spiritual body. The three all work together, and they’re so intertwined.
• Gut health and emotional trauma are the biggest places where anxiety comes into play.
• Homeopathy is the concept of “like cures like”.
• Biotherapeutic drainage is a combination of low-dose multiple remedies that work down to the cellular level to open up the cells and drain them of the toxic burden that they’re holding on to.
• Medical freedom is having the ability to choose what goes in and on your body, what medications you choose and don’t choose, and what surgery you want to have or not have.
• 5G means fifth generation cellular communication data. It can also mean the frequency or gigahertz.
• 5G from your phone is a much higher frequency than what we see in 4G and WiFi in a smaller wave. Because the waves are small, they don’t penetrate large things. For this reason, we need small cell towers up to every 500 feet or closer. The wavelength can penetrate millimeters into the skin surface.

Action Steps:

• Lifestyle hacks:
• Use castor oil packs to support your liver.
• Do skin brushing.
• Practice four square breathing.
• Take cold showers.
• Turn your phone off at night or at least put it on airplane mode.
• Spend time in nature.
• Give yourself a “Mental Health Day” once in a while.
• Eat “real” food.
• Drink a lot of water.
• Take supplements.
• Move your body as much as you can.
• Build boundaries with toxic people.

Nichole said:

“Most of our physical ailments or disease or disturbance in our body comes from an emotional sphere.”

“My goal is to make sure people have the information that they need to make very informed healthcare decisions. And in a time like 2020 and 2021, I think we are seeing an emergence of the importance of you -- the individual, the listener -- being your own best doctor.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

If you haven’t downloaded our FREE 5 Day Sugar Detox Challenge yet, download it now! It’s so easy to follow and you’re going to love it.

Sign up for our newsletter at holisticwellness.ca/newsletter! And don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out the NEW Organifi Harmony Women's Hormone Balancing Blend. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They’re great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Head to your local health food store and check out some amazing products from Garden of Life. Garden of Life Plant Iron and Herbs and their vegan vitamin D3 spray are two fantastic products - https://www.gardenoflife.com

Where you can find Nichole Morris:

Nichole’s Instagram (@dr.nicholemorris)

Nichole’s Website

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Where’s a good place to start to kick off the New Year? Set great intentions and connect to what moves the needle. Listen in as I share a few words on health, beauty, life, and business.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode136.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Life
• Health
• Beauty
• Business

Key Takeaways:

• Hydration is key for beautiful skin.
• Being in nature soothes the soul.
• Healthy fat is your friend.
• Movement helps to connect you with your body and intuition.
• Growing and scaling a business takes risks and trusting the unknown.
• Sleep is the cornerstone of health. If you’re not sleeping, you’re not healing.
• Align with your human design for more ease and flow.
• Nothing is an emergency. Slow the f*** down.
• Sugar, gluten, and dairy -- the three biggest inflammatory culprits.
• Anxiety, overwhelm, fear -- your breath can do wonders here.
• Oil cleansing is the go-to for beautiful, bright skin.
• Essential oils are plant magic and so healing.
• Nutrition, sleep, stress, supplements, your relationships, sex life, your creative outlet -- all of these play important roles in your health and your healing.
• Sex is amazing for your sex hormones and for lowering cortisol.
• Healthy boundaries are essential for your self-care.
• Whatever it is you want to achieve with your health or business, you can’t do it alone.
• Mistakes and failures are always lessons in learning.
• Your gut and intuition know best.
• We all play a role in the health of our planet and we all must do our part.
• It’s actions over thinking. It’s your actions that are going to bring results.

Action Steps:

• Focus on hydration when you want to optimize the health and beauty of your skin.
• Go for walks and spend more time in nature.
• Make sure to include healthy fat in your diet.
• If you’re looking to connect more deeply with your body, bring in more movement to your day.
• Learn to take risks and work your trust muscle in business.
• Don’t neglect sleep and set healthy boundaries around it. Get into a healthy routine in terms of when you go to bed and when you wake up, and keep to that routine even on weekends.
• Know your human design and learn more about it.
• Stop rushing through things all the time.
• Eliminate sugar, gluten, and dairy from your diet. Or at least minimize your intake.
• Do breathwork.
• Go for oil cleansing.
• Use essential oils.
• Recognize the importance of your relationships and having a creative outlet for your health and healing.
• Make time for sex.
• Eat more vegetables.
• Build your team of people around your health and business. Hire experts and find your support network to help you grow.
• Reframe how you see your failures and your mistakes, and never give up based on what has happened in the past.
• Trust what your instincts are telling you.
• Stop waiting. There’s no perfect time to launch your business or wear that bathing suit or whatever it is you tell yourself. Go and do it now.
• Reduce. Re-use. Recycle.
• Detox yourself from unhealthy relationships.
• Lean into your fears. Your fears are lessons. Don’t avoid them.
• Lead with love.

Samantha said:

“I don’t always know the answers. I don’t always know exactly how things are going to work out. I just know that I’m going to show up in full integrity and authenticity, and show up for my community and do my best work, and trust that it’s going to work out.”

“Nutrition, sleep, stress, supplements, your relationships, sex life, your creative output… No one magic bullet that is going to magically fix you. It is all of these things.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Sign up for our newsletter at holisticwellness.ca/newsletter! And don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• myBodyGraphs’ free Human Design BodyGraph service
• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out the NEW Organifi Harmony Women's Hormone Balancing Blend. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They’re great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Head to your local health food store and check out some amazing products from Garden of Life. Garden of Life Plant Iron and Herbs and their vegan vitamin D3 spray are two fantastic products - https://www.gardenoflife.com

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Welcome to our last Q&A episode for 2020! Here I talk about what to do for adrenal fatigue and inflammation as well as share some tips to overcome doubts and fears while growing your business.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode135.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Some important tests to ask for when going to your doctor
• Adrenal fatigue and its symptoms
• What you can do to heal your adrenals
• Managing inflammation and getting your health back on track
• Dealing with doubts and fears when it comes to your business

Key Takeaways:

• The more we can clear out from our body, the more we can show up in a true, authentic, powerful way; the more we can connect to our intuition and our gut, and start acknowledging the things that feel right and don’t feel right. From there, we can start to make clear decisions and ask the right questions.
• Some key tests to ask for when you see your doctor:
• A ferritin test
• A vitamin D test
• The hs-CRP test
• A full metabolic panel
• A full thyroid panel
• The DUTCH test
• Roughly 70% to 80% of doctor visits are stress-related conditions.
• The number one essential to healing your adrenals is sleep. And it’s the number one thing for overall hormonal health.
• The big three triggers for inflammation are gluten, dairy, and sugar.
• When doing an elimination diet, don’t just get hung up on the stuff that you can’t have. Think about all the things that you can have and bring them into the diet.

Action Steps:

• Work on yourself, and work through the fears and anxieties and how you’re showing up in the world. Work on how you’re communicating and connecting with people. 
• Work on healing your adrenals if you’re experiencing adrenal fatigue:
• Practice relaxation and meditation techniques.
• Use an infrared sauna.
• Get enough sleep.
• Ditch the sugar and the caffeine.
• What to do to manage inflammation:
• Eliminate gluten, dairy, and sugar from your diet.
• Supplement with omega-3s.
• Hyperhydrate. Drink at least 3 liters of water a day.
• Accept the fears and doubts that you have around your business. If you don’t, building your business is going to be unenjoyable.

Samantha said:

“It is so vital, now more than ever, for us to be healthy. And I don’t just mean from a health and hormones and nutrition perspective -- that is so key. But from a mental health standpoint, from a personal growth standpoint, it is so important for us to work on ourselves.”

“The more successful version of you, the real you, requires that you let go of who you are now.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Sign up for our newsletter at holisticwellness.ca/newsletter! Also, our Metabolic Reset program is going ON SALE on the 26th of December 2020! 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off site-wide on Skin Essence with the coupon code HEALTHY HORMONES - code is available until December 31st. Just head over to SkinEssence.ca OR skinessenceorganics.com if you’re in the US.
• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out Organifi Immune to help support your body during the cold and flu season. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES for your 15% savings.
• Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com. The Clay Mask is the BEST!! 
• Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - They carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada*. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%.

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Are you one of those people who hate taking cold showers and just hate being in the cold in general? Listen in as I share the benefits of cold therapy. They just might change your mind.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode134.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The benefits of cold therapy
• How cold therapy impacts the two types of fat in our body
• Some ways you can incorporate cold therapy

Key Takeaways:

• The white adipose tissue is the body fat that you want to burn, while the brown adipose tissue is what helps you burn calories and burn the white adipose tissue.
• Cold therapy stimulates the brown adipose tissue to burn excess fat and glucose for energy.
• Cold therapy reduces inflammation, swelling, and sore muscles. It’s also linked to improved quality of sleep, more focus, and improved immune response.

Action Steps:

• Take on the challenge to incorporate cold therapy in your day! Here are some ways you can do it:

1. Use ice packs on the back/neck for 30-60 minutes while relaxing at night when insulin levels are higher and more sensitive.  
2. Soak your feet in cold water at night or right away in AM when you first wake up. This will stimulate heat throughout the day.
3. Suck on ice cubes throughout the day. You can add flavored stevia to the ice cubes to help sweeten them without adding sugar. 
4. Have a snow cone for dessert with flavored stevia. See below for the recipe.
5. Take a cold shower upon arising. As a note - 10 seconds isn't going to cut it, but it's a start. Work your way up to 3-5 minutes for the best results.
6. Lower the temperature in your house by 5 degrees. We always sleep in a cold room, keeping our temperature at around 20 Degrees, or 68F. 

• Try the "healthified” snowcone:

Ingredients: 

4 cups ice

2-3 strawberry tea bags or other fruity tea 

1 cup water

1 tsp fruit flavored stevia (fruit punch or berry) 

Directions:

Place tea bags in very hot water and let steep for 3-5 minutes. Sweeten with stevia drops to desired sweetness and let cool in the fridge. Once cooled, add to Vitamix (you will need a powerful blender for this) with ice and blend until crushed. Serve and enjoy!

Samantha said:

“Not only is cold therapy amazing for speeding up our metabolism; there are so many other benefits as well.”

“The reason I like to use cold therapy is, from an autoimmune perspective, to really help manage and support my symptoms.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off site-wide on Skin Essence with the coupon code HEALTHY HORMONES - code is available until December 31st. Just head over to SkinEssence.ca OR skinessenceorganics.com if you’re in the US.
• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out Organifi Immune to help support your body during the cold and flu season. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES for your 15% savings.
• Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com. The Clay Mask is the BEST!! 
• Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - They carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada*. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%.

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

What does it really mean to support our microbiome? And how can we optimize our gut health? Dr. Melina Roberts is on the show to talk about all these and more!

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode133.

Be sure to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and leave us a rating and a review!

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Foods that we should be eating to optimize gut health
• Supporting our microbiome and decreasing our toxic load
• The connection between our hormones and gut health
• Phyto-hormones vs synthetic hormones
• Electrical conductivity and where minerals fit in to this
• The Keto diet and intermittent fasting

Key Takeaways:

• The microbiome is the ecosystem of bacteria and fungi that live in our gut.
• Gut health is central to how our whole systems function. It plays such a huge role in cancer, chronic diseases, and other health issues.
• Gut health is our window of opportunity to be able to heal the body.
• You should be moving your bowels 1 to 3 times a day.
• Our bodies are electrical systems and that we have electricity running through them. We need strong electrical conductivity within every cell in every system of our body for our body to function properly.
• Sleep is your body’s way of recharging your battery.

Action Steps:

• Work on your gut health.
• Eat foods that help in the balance of your microbiome and improve its diversity.
• Decrease your intake of major inflammatory foods: gluten, cow’s dairy, and sugar, or remove them from your diet altogether.
• Decrease your toxic load.
• Improve your body’s electrical conductivity.
• Make sure that you’re taking in enough water and ample amounts of minerals.
• Get ample amounts of sleep.

Melina said:

“What we have to do is really work on the gut health. That really became one of my passions.”

We can’t start balancing out that microbiome and building it up and rebuilding the lining of the digestive track if we haven’t put out the fire yet… In order for us to do repairs, we need those inflammatory foods out.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off site-wide on Skin Essence with the coupon code HEALTHY HORMONES - code is available until December 31st. Just head over to SkinEssence.ca OR skinessenceorganics.com if you’re in the US.
• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out Organifi Immune to help support your body during the cold and flu season. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES for your 15% savings.
• Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com. The Clay Mask is the BEST!! 
• Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - They carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada*. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%.

Where you can find Dr. Melina Roberts:

Melina’s Website

Melina’s Instagram (@drmelinaroberts)

Melina’s Facebook

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Are you struggling with sugar addiction and can’t seem to get rid of sugar cravings? Sugar Freedom coach Danielle Daem talks about how you can reshape your relationship with sugar and reclaim control over your health and energy once and for all.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode132

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The root causes of sugar cravings and addictive behaviors
• Emotional eating and the connection between our emotions and sugar
• Sugar Freedom and Danielle’s approach to sugar addiction
• What it means to have sugar freedom
• The best place to start when trying to go sugar-free
• Tips for choosing wine and some healthy holiday tips

Key Takeaways:

• In our culture, we haven’t been taught how to sit with our uncomfortable emotions. And right from childhood, sugar is connected to every single emotion.
• It’s not until we can begin to honor the heavy emotions like grief, sadness, depression, anxiety, stress, etc. and know that we’re okay to feel them that we can start to break that pattern of escaping.
• Emotions are just energy in motion. There are tools that we can use to process them.
• Neurodynamic Breathwork is a deep inner practice of subconscious meditation and breathwork.
• One of the pillars of understanding when you’re successful in this journey of dealing with negative emotions is how quickly you can bounce back and how graceful and loving you are with yourself as you let those emotions flow.

Action Steps:

• Build a healthy relationship with yourself.
• Work through your emotions. Learn to sit with them, and learn to process them.
• Check with yourself before you eat anything. Ask: How am I feeling at this moment? And don’t judge or push against it, but honor the feeling. This brings a deep awareness of yourself.
• Keep a journal.
• Meditate.
• Commit to sitting with your emotions.
• Reconnect with yourself and with your body.
• Try doing Neurodynamic Breathwork.
• Get started with going sugar-free
• Learn to read labels for sugar content.
• Cook your meals at home instead of dining out or ordering from a fast food restaurant.

Danielle said:

“When we can really, truly do the inner work, tune in, heal, shift our belief patterns that are holding us back, and really rewire all those subconscious patterns, I believe that we can have an empowered, healthy relationship with sugar.”

“We can empower ourselves to make choices that feel right when we have our foundational pieces solid. And for each person, that’s a different journey; it takes a different amount of time; it’s different inner work. But it’s so incredibly rewarding, and it’s so freeing.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on. 

Links to things I talk about in the show:

Save 20% off site-wide on Skin Essence with the coupon code HEALTHY HORMONES - code is available until December 31st. SkinEssence.ca OR skinessenceorganics.com

Save 20% off Energzbits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use code - HEALTHYHORMONES

Save 15% off any Organifi Products at organifishop.com. Check out the NEW Organifi Harmony Women's Hormone Balancing Blend. Use code HEALTHYHORMONES

Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com

The Clay Mask is the BEST and I am loving their gold serum.

Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones

Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.

Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - they carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills, and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada* Use the code - HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%. **THIS 15% discount is only available until December 31st**

Where you can find Danielle Daem:

Danielle's Instagram (@danielledaem)

Danielle's Website

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive 
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

What does it take to be in control of your life? Where can you find the confidence that you need? Nutritionist and educator Jane Durst-Pulkys shares her journey of battling self-doubt, overcoming her lack of self-esteem, and building her confidence.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode131.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Jane’s journey toward boosting her confidence
• Working with empowering afformations
• The 7 Chakras
• The technique to uncover where energy is blocked
• The 7 deadly words
• Rewiring the brain
• The common excuses that people come up with
• Where nutrition comes into play with rewiring the brain and boosting your confidence

Key Takeaways:

• Your issues are in your tissues.
• Homeopathy allows you to figure out where the energy is blocked in your body and how to get rid of it.
• Life is supposed to be a joyful experience, but when there are these energy blocks in the body, people aren’t able to fully live the life that they’re looking for.
• When you feel confident, every cell in your body radiates that confidence.
• Words are either disabling or enabling. How you speak to yourself is very important. How you talk to other people impacts every cell in your body.
• The 7 deadly words are the following: can’t, should, if, or, need, must, and try.
• Studies have shown that if you were to spend 10 to 20 minutes in a meditation or a contemplation type of exercise, it allows your body to calm down, and it allows for more creativity to flow through.
• For you to feel good inside, you have to have amazing energy.
• There are 5 new food groups available today: frozen, fried, fast, junk, and processed. There’s also a lot of CRAP - carbonated, refined, addictive, and processed foods. But if you want to feel amazing, you need to eat whole, live foods.

Action Steps:

• Figure out what’s holding you back and utilize your full potential.
• Be kind to yourself.
• Love yourself.
• Think about what you say and how you say it.
• Take some time for yourself and do some meditation.
• Subscribe to the 80-20 rule when it comes to nutrition. It’s what you eat 80% of the time that matters the most.

Jane said:

“I think it’s really criminal to be a man or a woman in this world and to not have that joy and that feeling of [having] your own life in your hands.”

“We need to help each other. We need to compliment each other. And if we all were kinder to ourselves, then we could all be more empowered to feel better about ourselves.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on. 

Recommended Products:

• Garden of Life mykind Organics Plant Iron and Organic Herbs
• Organifi Harmony
• nutpods

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out Organifi Immune to help support your body during the cold and flu season. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES for your 15% savings.
• Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com. The Clay Mask is the BEST!! 
• Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - They carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada*. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%.

Where you can find Jane Durst-Pulkys:

Jane's Instagram (@janedurstpulkys)

Jane's Website (www.creativehealth.ca)

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Are you excited to celebrate the holidays? Get into the holiday spirit with these gift ideas with a healthy twist.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode130

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• My holiday gift ideas
• Essential oils
• Skincare
• Supplements
• Healthy gift baskets
• Books and journals
• Meal prep kits and homemade treats
• Sleep kits and fitness kits
• The SodaStream
• Coupons

Key Takeaways:

• Essential oils always make amazing gifts. And especially this year when there’s been this bigger awareness about taking responsibility for how we’re showing up for our health, essential oils fit in beautifully.
• If you are ready to ditch your toxic cleaning products, revamp your skincare, and also support your hormonal health, adrenal health, energy, digestion, etc., essential oils are the way to go.
• If you’re looking to support your hormones and take it up a notch in the new year with your health, and get on a better routine, gift yourself with some amazing supplements.
• For somebody who really wants to step up their health in the new year, a great gift idea would be to give them the tools that will help them be successful.

Action Steps:

• Make DIY essential oil gifts for friends and family. You can buy some empty bottles and make DIY all-purpose cleaners and roll-on blends.
• Support your loved one’s health or longevity by gifting them with supplements.
• Peruse the Natura Market website: Naturamarket.ca and put together nice little gift packs for friends and family.
• Head over to hormonesolutionbook.com and gift The 30-Day Hormone Solution to yourself or someone who wants to dive deeper into hormonal health.
• Put together meal prep kits, sleep kits, and fitness kits to give as gifts.
• Make coupons.

Samantha said:

“It’s your decision; it’s your choice how you want to head into the holiday season… Especially this year with everything that we have all been through, with what’s been going on with the pandemic, we need these things to celebrate.”

“Make sure that you give yourself some downtime and some time to truly celebrate and enjoy the holiday season.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements: 

Don’t forget to connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. Let me know if there’s anything you’d love for me to expand on. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review at any podcast platform that you’re listening to us on.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Save 20% off Energybits Spirulina and Chlorella at energybits.com. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES.
• Save 15% off ALL Organifi products at organifishop.com. Check out Organifi Immune to help support your body during the cold and flu season. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES for your 15% savings.
• Save 20% off ALL Alitura Naturals SkinCare at https://alituranaturals.com. The Clay Mask is the BEST!! 
• Save 15% storewide on LeesTea and LeesGhee (the pink chai is my absolute fav! and their maple ghee is amazing in coffee and perfect over roasted vegetables). Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES - leesprovisions.com/healthyhormones.
• Check out CANPREV products across Canadian Health Food Stores and online at Natures-Source.ca - I personally LOVE their MYCO10 and Collagen powder. They are great to add to smoothies and elixirs. Also, check out their product ADRENAL CHILL for supporting the adrenal glands and helping your body better adapt to stress.
• Save 15% off your very first order on Naturamarket.ca - They carry the best health food products and they are my go-to source for all things delicious! A few brands that I order on the regular - nutpods, siete, lily's chocolate, bobs red mill, simple mills and primal palate spices. You're gonna LOVE shopping here. They only ship to Canada*. Use the code HEALTHYHORMONES and save 15%.

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Get 60% off when you enroll today!
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s