In this week’s episode, sleep physician and psychiatrist Dr. Cara Ooi is here to help your family have stronger and better relationships by helping your sleep deprived teen! We also hear from our family night owls, my nephew Alex and my daughter Lizzi. The episode is chock full of tips!

This week, we begin a deep dive into the topic of Physical Health, with two time Olympian, Bayano Kamani. He and I talk about the importance of finding your Why when it comes to exercising, adapting exercise as we age, and lots more!!

Do you want to have a full and more vibrant life? Then, don’t neglect a single part of your health. Taking care of yourself responsibly means balancing your social, emotional, mental, physical, intellectual, and spiritual health. It’s a multidimensional, more comprehensive, and more rewarding approach. I hope you have enjoyed and learned ways to improve your social, emotional, and mental health so far. Now it’s time to nurture our physical health! All of my guests compel you to care for your body so that you don’t just survive, but thrive  - Former 2x Olympian Bayano Kamani, Sleep physician and psychiatrist Dr. Cara Ooi, Healthy Aging Expert and Nutritionist Annie Gaudreault, and Founder of Yoga for Arthritis Dr. Steffany Moonaz. If you are curious about becoming a physically healthy human being, you will be happy you took the time to listen!

Confident. How does hearing that word make you feel?

Would you describe yourself as a confident person? Not so much? Why or why not?

My friend, Dr. Andrea Wojnicki, Marketing and Communication expert and host of Talk About Talk Podcast, is here to help us with the practice of becoming more confident. Let’s take a deep dive and talk about Confidence in this week’s episode.

How was changing her mantra from strong, independent, and healthy to optimistic, curious, and resilient a key moment of transformation for Dawn Repola? This week, on “Mental Health - Realize your Potential’, Dawn discusses her transformation after receiving a diagnosis of chronic fibrosing lung disease.

So many moms feel guilty about taking time for themselves! What happens when we can be moms, wives, have a career, and still be individuals? If your answer is “It’s impossible”, why is that?

This week, my guest is Becky Mocarski - designer and founder of BeMo Designs, yoga instructor, wife, and mother of three young boys. I couldn’t think of a better guest who manages all of her roles with perfect imperfection and style!

In this very special episode, which I dedicate to you moms, grandmas, aunts, sisters, wives, partners, daughters, I am so grateful for the wisdom imparted by my guests, therapist Lisa Lackey, and my sister Daphne Bishop. Take your time with this episode. It's a beautiful conversation about what it means to be a strong woman, specifically, a strong black woman. And don't skip the mindful minute. It's an original poem I wrote years ago, when I was healing and learning about what true strength really looked like for me. I love you all. And I wish you peace, joy, and health. You deserve it. And you're worth it.

Don't miss four episodes in May and June of 2021, focusing on mental health - "Manage Stress - The Strong Black Woman Syndrome, with Lisa Lackey and Daphne Bishop", "Work Productively with Becky Mocarski", "Realize Your Potential with Dawn Repola", and "Foster Confidence with Dr. Andrea Wojnicki"

This week in Emotional Health, on The YOGI MD Podcast, we learn about the power of love. This could have been a story about vengeance, stagnation, and hate. Instead, it’s about compassion, transformation, and love. Erika and Shawn met under painful circumstances and their relationship, just as a lotus flower emerges from muddy waters, blossomed into an enduring, beautiful, and loving friendship.

This week, on The YOGI MD Podcast, we talk Emotional Health: Experiencing Grief with my daughter Lizzi Kelly. In March of 2020, in her sophomore year at Grinnell College, spring break began two weeks early, as the students evacuated campus as a result of the pandemic. On this episode, Lizzi talks shares her lifelong struggle to fit in at school, thriving in her college community, grieving the abrupt disruption of her college experience, and finally, by taking a semester off, confronting years of habitual negative self-talk to become the well rounded and healthy person she wants to be.