The Wellness Witch Podcast

How do emotions, trauma, and stress contribute to the physical manifestation of illness? Kelli Tennant shares how she went through 14 years of misdiagnosis and working with healers and doctors to understand the mind-body connection. Find out how you can set yourself free from illness by finding yourself and living an authentic life.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode74

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Kelli’s health journey
• Healing from EBV
• How ozone therapy works
• What the Ayurvedic detox looks like
• Doing the AIP protocol
• Kelli’s go-to AIP meals
• Sexuality and intimacy
• Experiencing Iowaska

Key Takeaways:

• Don’t lie and die by test. Go by how you feel. It’s important to get tested but also to know that there are flaws throughout every test. As long as you’re feeling better, keep going with whatever protocol works for you.
• The whole point of the Ayurvedic detox is to support your body and balancing it back to where it wants to be so that you can be of optimal health.
• You have to do what’s right for you and understand how to listen to your body. That’s how you can truly take care of and protect yourself, by listening to your intuition and listening to what your body needs.
• There is a direct link between suppressing our sexuality and chronic illness.

Action Steps:

• Try doing the AIP for 9 months.
• Embrace your sexuality.

Kelli said:

“You are the only person that could advocate for yourself. You get to make the choices for your life. You want to be healthy, that is your choice for your body.”

“When it comes to our health, we want quick fixes and we have lots of excuses. And if you truly want to feel better, [the AIP] is a short-term investment for long-term health.”

Thanks for listening!

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Also, dive into our Free 10-Day Detox! It’s a great kickstart to supporting your health, your hormones, and your energy.

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Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Learn more about Kelli's Ceremony Wellness 1-Day Retreat
• Books by Sarah Ballantyne
• Books by Mickey Trescott

Where you can find Kelli Tennant:

Kelli’s Website

Kelli’s Podcast (Ceremony Wellness)

Kelli’s Instagram (@kellimtennant)

Kelli’s Twitter (@KelliTennant)

Ceremony Wellness Instagram (@ceremonywellness)

Where you can find me:

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How can you up the ante of your healing routine with essential oils? Best-selling author of The Healing Power of Essential Oils, Dr. Eric Zielinsk shares great blends, tools, strategies, and tips about essential oils. We also talk about all things food and how you can eat a bio-active rich diet. 

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode73.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Expanding your healing toolkit
• Dr. Z’s healing journey

• The Essentials Oils Diet and what it means to eat a bio-active rich diet

• How Dr. Z got started with essential oils
• What you should have in your essential oil medicine cabinet
• Essential oils for mood, energy, and sex
• Essential oils for healing the gut

Key Takeaways:

• Oils aren’t going to be the magic bullet for healing whatever condition you might have. They are part of your healing toolkit. It’s the same thing with supplements. There’s no one magical thing that’s going to be the “healer”, it’s a combination of things.
• Having all these different modalities that we have access to and expanding our healing toolkit means that we’re also going to experience greater, faster healing.
• Citrus oils are proven anti-depressants.
• Once you have your arsenal of oils, you can make your own blends.
• Deep breathing and good posture help feed the body with good oxygen and good nutrition, and essential oils can help with that.
• Peppermint has been shown to increase respiratory rate and help athletic performance. It also has fantastic pain-relieving properties.
• Your body completely metabolizes essential oils. You don’t have to worry about the biochemical buildup.
• There are natural approaches that our body does well with, that we don’t have to worry about side effects.

Action Steps:

• If you want to improve your health, focus on your pain point and start to look at solutions, one at a time.
• Focus on the true nutritional value of food, which has nothing to do with carbs, calories, vitamins, and minerals.
• Don’t deprive yourself or your kids of “normal” food but find ways to “healthify” the food that people normally eat.
• Take a look at your medicine cabinet and categorize the essential oils you have there. Make your own blends and come up with your own solution to boost your mood and energy, and address all kinds of aches and pains.

Eric said:

“That’s probably the most dangerous place someone can get is when you’re numb, that’s when life and death really don’t matter to you anymore. And a lot of people are getting numb right now.”

“The best advice I can give to anyone who wants to improve their physical health is focusing on their pain point …and then start to look at solutions to find for that particular thing.’

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

If you have any questions about how to use essential oils for healing or if you’re a beginner when it comes to essential oils, get in touch with me via email. 

Don’t miss our 8-Week Metabolic Reset Weightloss Program that’s currently open for registration! It’s a program that addresses all of the things that cause weight issues. It is your one-stop-shop for losing weight and balancing your hormones. Plus, you only need to pay once to remain a member of the Metabolic Reset for life!

Connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie. It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

Books by Dr. Eric Zielinski:

• The Essential Oils Diet: Lose Weight and Transform Your Health with the Power of Essential Oils and Bioactive Foods
• The Healing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent Autoimmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way

Where you can find Dr. Eric Zielinski:

Natural Living Family 

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

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Samantha’s Website

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Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

What is gluten and how is it potentially impacting your health? And how can you manage chronic inflammation? In this episode, I dive into all things gluten and share some simple things that you can do to optimize your health and your hormones and manage inflammation.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode72.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What you need to know about gluten
• Why you need to consider going gluten-free
• Acute inflammation versus chronic inflammation
• What causes chronic inflammation and its long-term health effects
• The ways to manage inflammation and optimize your health

Key Takeaways:

• Gluten causes gut inflammation in at least 80% of the population.
• Thirty percent of the population that develops antibodies against gluten proteins in the gut.
• At least 99% of the population has the genetic potential to develop antibodies against gluten.
• Especially if you have an autoimmune condition or you are type 1 diabetic, cutting out gluten is going to lessen the inflammatory load on your body.
• Gluten’s inflammatory effect on the gut causes intestinal cells to die prematurely and the oxygenation of those cells, which results in a leaky gut.
• Chronic inflammation isn’t just caused by inflammatory foods but also by psychological stress and sleep deprivation.

Action Steps:

• Go on a 21-day gluten elimination diet and then re-introduce it slowly and see how you feel.
• Think about long-term health and not just how you want to feel now but also how you want to feel in the future, especially as you start to age.
• Manage your inflammation and optimize your health:
• Eat real, whole foods and remove the toxins and inflammatory foods in your diet. Cut out gluten, dairy, and sugar.
• Manage your stress.
• Eat organic as much as you possibly can, and buy from local sources.
• Get enough good quality sleep.
• Exercise regularly and build and maintain muscle mass.

Samantha said:

“A lot of products will list that they are gluten-free, which is great. But because it’s gluten-free that doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s the better option.”

“We can’t take charge of our life if we don’t have optimized health. So that’s truly where it starts.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Registration is now open for our 8-Week Metabolic Reset Weightloss Program. It’s a program that addresses all of the things that cause weight issues. It is literally your one-stop-shop for losing weight and balancing your hormones. Plus, you only need to pay once to remain a member of the Metabolic Reset for life!

As an exclusive bonus, I’ll be hosting a Sugar Detox and Mindset Masterclass for all participants in the Metabolic Reset Program. It is going to be next-level amazing and one super informative class.

Also, check out the numerous ways you can work with myself and my team! Apart from the 8-Week Metabolic Reset Weightloss Program, we’ve also got the 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Program, and the Dutch Hormone Program. 

Finally, connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Past episode mentioned that you shouldn’t miss:

• Podcast Episode 70: The Importance of Pooping, Optimizing Digestion, and the Gut and Hormone Connection

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

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Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Welcome to another Q&A episode! This time, I answer your questions about navigating the diet dogma, the link between irregular cycles and hypothyroidism, the things you need to consider to support your thyroid, and how to deal with fibroids.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode71.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• How to navigate all the diet dogma that are out there
• The link between irregular cycles and hypothyroidism
• What the thyroid hormone does to your body
• The 5 things you need to consider to help support your thyroid
• How to deal with fibroids

Key Takeaways:

• It can be so confusing when we are bombarded every single day from all sides about how we should be eating. The thing is, nobody knows how you should be eating but YOU.
• If you are going to go vegan or vegetarian, make sure you have variety in your diet and not just relying on grains, beans, and legumes.
• When it comes to choosing which diet to follow, it comes down to what makes the most sense for you and how you feel best.
• Hypothyroidism and the menstrual cycle are intimately tied together. While the thyroid hormone isn’t a sex hormone, it does play a key role in keeping your period regular.
• Every cell in your body needs the thyroid hormone, including your brain and your ovaries. It’s essential for follicle development in the ovary, which is a very necessary step in ovulation.
• The 5 areas that impact your thyroid and your body overall:

1. Heavy metals 
2. Stealth and latent infections
3. Environmental toxicities
4. Emotional trauma and chronic stress
5. Nutrient deficiencies

• Fibroids are a symptom, not a root cause. And no matter how big or small your fibroids are, you always want to address the root cause.

Action Steps:

• Tune in to your body. When it comes to how you should be eating, only YOU know what’s right for you. 
• Do not get caught up in the diet dogma. At the end of the day, you just have to experiment and see what works for you.
• Make sure that you’re getting your thyroid tested and you’re getting a full panel, and then work with a practitioner who can look at those tests and assess where you might need support.
• Support your thyroid.
• Make sure you’re on the right medication or supplementation.
• Address your adrenals and your stress.
• Make sure you’re eating an anti-inflammatory whole foods diet.

Samantha said:

“Healing can come in many different forms. But this is why, at the end of the day, it really comes down to experimentation. And it also comes down to finding a practitioner who can best guide you because sometimes we just can’t figure it out on our own.”

“Sleep and stress go hand in hand. If you are chronically stressed, you are probably not getting good enough sleep -- deep quality sleep. And if you’re not sleeping, you’re not healing.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

The Dutch Test Program is now available in our online clinic! Wherever you are in the world, if you’re interested in getting our Dutch Hormone Package, just shoot me an email and let me know.

Check out our 3-month Holistic Wellness Business Mentorship Program launching in September! It’s a mix of group coaching and personalized one-on-one coaching that will help to build the foundation of your business so that you can have incredible success.

Finally, connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! It would also mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

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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 - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Why is daily pooping important? Jillian Teta talks about the importance of optimizing our gut health and its connection to our hormones. We also chat about the things that we can do to positively impact our microbiome and promote digestive health beyond just changing our diet.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode70.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The digestive process in a nutshell
• The connection between your gut health and your hormones
• How to overcome constipation
• Strategies that you can implement to support your gut
• Why it’s important to maintain a healthy and robust microbiome
• The two options for stool testing
• What candida is and how to get rid of it
• The optimal gut-healing diet
• What gluten does to your body in terms of digestion and autoimmunity
• The elimination challenge diet
• The role that nature plays in the health of your microbiome
• Jillian’s thoughts on the carnivore diet

Key Takeaways:

• Your gut acts like the Grand Central Station of your entire body. It is intimately connected with every other cell and system in your body, including the hormonal system, the detoxification system, the immune system, the neurological system, and the cardiovascular system.
• The gut holds two of the big five organs of detoxification -- the liver and the large intestine.
• The liver is primarily in charge of metabolizing and neutralizing estrogen. Once estrogen is neutralized, it is sent to the large intestine to be expelled out of the body.
• If you’re not pooping every day, that means your estrogen is sitting in your stool, and it gets reabsorbed back into the system and ends up back in the liver. This contributes to estrogen dominance.
• About 20% of your thyroid hormone T4 is converted to the active form T3 via the activity of your microbiome. If your microbiome is not healthy, it’s arguable that this conversion is compromised.
• Candida is part of a normal human gut flora. Issues can arise if it overgrows. This happens when one of our defenses is breached, usually due to an antibiotic knocking out your beneficial flora.
• Gluten is not universally terrible for everybody, but it’s a fact that it causes an issue for the gut and impacts autoimmunity.
• Sleep is absolutely key for digestive health. When we sleep, the parasympathetic branch of our nervous system becomes more active.

Action Steps:

• Make sure that you poop every day.
• Overcome constipation quickly and easily by drinking lots of water and supplementing with magnesium glycinate.
• Heal your gut through your diet.
• If you have an autoimmune condition, avoid gluten at all cost.
• If you absolutely have to take antibiotics, make sure to take probiotics alongside it.

Jillian said:

“If you think about that large intestine as a parking lot, you want all those spaces filled with good guys. If you take an antibiotic and knock some of those good guys out, the highly opportunistic fast-growing microorganisms are going to move in.”

“I think we overemphasize candida, and I think we emphasize the wrong types of information about candida. And I think it created a culture that thinks that everybody and everything has candida.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Join my FREE 10-Day Detox! It’s a really simple way to give your digestive system a break if that’s what you need. It’s great to way to also support your hormones, get better sleep, and optimize your energy.

Also, if you haven’t yet, connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! And it would mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Natural Solutions for Digestive Health by Dr. Jillian Teta and Jeannette Bessinger
• Jillian’s Free Programs + Education

Where you can find Dr. Jillian Teta:

Jillian’s Website

Jillian’s Instagram (@jillianteta)

Jillian’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 - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

How can we combat sugar cravings and support our microbiome? Learn some tips from Joy McCarthy of Joyous Health as she shares her story of overcoming her sugar addiction. We also talk about how we can heal our microbiome and keep it healthy, raising resilient kids, entrepreneurship, and more!

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode69.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• How Joy overcame her sugar addiction
• Symptoms of sugar addiction
• Tips to combat sugar cravings
• The microbiome and how we can support it
• Studies involving the microbiome
• Joy’s favorite gut-healing foods
• The carnivore diet and how it affects the microbiome
• Nourishing the microbiome in babies and children
• Raising resilient children
• The ups and downs on entrepreneurship and tips for running your business

Key Takeaways:

• When it comes to fighting sugar addiction, it’s not just about taking away certain foods from your diet but about adding in what’s healthy for you.
• We have trillions of microbes in and on our body that affect everything, from our mood to the health of our skin to the health of our immune system, and a large concentration of them are in our gut, particularly the colon.
• Polyphenols are phytonutrients that act as prebiotics.
• The nutrients in fermented foods are so much more bio available, such that they really optimize and help your digestive system and your body overall.
• Phytonutrients are what give plants their beautiful color. So if you want to make sure you eat a gut-friendly diet, make sure you’re eating a lot of different colors.
• When a baby travels through the birth canal, that’s essentially its first touchpoint with the microbiome.

Action Steps:

• Retrain your palate.
• Make sure that you eat lots of plant-based foods.
• Eat fermented foods (if you can).
• When shopping for food, fill your cart with a variety of colors, and eat a rainbow
• Do everything you can to try and breastfeed your baby.
• Avoid antibiotics for the health of your child’s microbiome.

Joy said:

“Anyone who’s ever done a sugar detox knows that once you cut out those refined sugars and artificial sweeteners, that things that are sweet are so much [sweeter].”

“You are in charge of your own health. You are responsible for your own health, and you know your body better than anybody else. So I believe that we have a lot of the answers within ourselves to heal our own body.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! And it would mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Books by Joy McCarthy
• Joyous Health: Eat And Live Well Without Dieting
• Joyous Detox: Your Complete Plan and Cookbook to Be Vibrant Every Day
• The Joyous Cookbook: Real Food, Nourishing Recipes for Everyday Living
• Check out Joy's Hair Care Challenge

Sponsor link:

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Where you can Joy McCarthy:

Joy’s Website (Joyous Health)

Joy’s Instagram (@joyoushealth)

Joy’s Twitter (@joyoushealth)

Joyous Health YouTube Channel

Joyous Health Facebook Page 

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 - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Summer is finally here! And it’s only fitting that we talk about the sun and its impact on our health. Here at the 5 myths that you need to know about the sun and your skin.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode68.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The 5 myths you need to know about the sun and your skin
• The harmful chemicals that you need to avoid in sunscreens
• How to practice natural sun safety
• Foods rich in antioxidants that will help nourish and protect your skin
• What products to invest in for sun protection

Key Takeaways:

• It’s not true that sunscreen reduces skin cancer rates. According to the Environmental Working Group, skin cancer rates are rising despite our increase in the use of sunscreens.
• High SPF doesn’t mean better sun protection. SPF values refer only to UVB rays, not UVA or UVC.
• UVA and UVC rays penetrate more deeply into the skin and cause damage to the DNA.
• Sunscreens with added antioxidants are not necessarily better for you.
• Wearing oils with natural SPF is not enough for sun protection. If you’re not wearing something that’s broad-spectrum, you’re not blocking all of the UV rays.
• Although vitamin D is important for overall cancer protection and we need to get our vitamin D from sun exposure, we still need to practice sun safety.

Action Steps:

• Be conscious of the harmful chemicals that may be present in your sunscreen.
• Be conscious of how much time you’re spending outside and how much sun exposure you’re actually getting.
• Practice natural sun safety. Wear long, light layers that will cover your skin, as well as a hat and sunglasses.
• Choose all-natural, organic sunscreen with broad-spectrum protection.

Samantha said:

“UV radiation, it increases free radical damage in our bodies, but antioxidants counteract that free radical damage. So you want to make sure you are including antioxidant-rich foods [in your diet] that are really going to help nourish and protect your skin.”

“Our life on this planet needs sunshine and it’s not the enemy. It’s just practicing safe sun protection and being conscious about our time spent out in the sun. It is vital that we get sun exposure, and it really isn’t the problem.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! And it would mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Links to things I talk about in the show:

• EWG.org

Recommended Brand and Products:

• Living Libations
• Seabuckthorn Best Skin Ever
• Everybody Loves the Sun
• Badger Organic sunscreen
• Green Beaver Organic Sunscreen
• Goddess Garden Organics
• Beautycounter sunscreen

Sponsor Links:

• Clean Beauty U - Use the code beautycare to save 50%

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 - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s