Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Podcast Intro:

When it comes to climate change, we've all heard about droughts and flooding and the impact on agriculture and infrastructure from extreme weather events such as hurricanes. However, we may not hear as much about climate change's physical and mental health consequences.

Natural disasters can negatively impact health and emotional well-being. People who are affected by extreme weather events and slow-moving disasters, such as droughts, face a wide range of challenges in their lives. Mental health repercussions of climate change events include mild stress and anguish, high-risk coping behaviors such as increased alcohol use, and occasionally mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Dr. Lise Van Susteren is an expert on climate change's physical and psychological impacts. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and has been researching climate change since 2007. She has written several books on the subject, including The Heat Is On: The Science, Politics, and Solutions to Global Warming (2016) and The Climate Crisis: Dispatches from the Front Lines (2017). In this episode, she shares knowledge on climate change, how it affects the health of many people, and what actions we must take to get better.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

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Links/CTA:

• Checkout the latest in Yogahealer
• Other related Yogahealer Podcast episodes:
  • Cate Stillman on Microbiome, Ayurveda, Chronic Inflammation, Dysbiosis, Nitric Oxide, & Terrain Theory
  • Vata, Pitta, Kapha: Inflammation and Disease in Ayurveda
  • What If You're NOT Eating Organic?

Highlights:

• Cate shares her personality type
• Cate talks about the global economy and interconnected communities
• Cate shares about her upcoming book and recognition of living in harmony

Timestamps:

• [1:41] Introduction
• [3:11] Global Mental Health
• [10:01] Degeneration Of Human Species
• [15:16] Economy
• [21:22] Leadership
• [24:38] Body Thrive
• [29:07] Spiritual Health
• [32:11] Stress
• [44:35] Reactor Types

Quotes:

• "Our brains have gotten further and further away from the natural systems that define us, and that has caused an enormous amount of anxiety and self-destructive component to that anxiety."
• "We are under pressure and will make decisions that may reflect our willingness to trade long-held values for promises of security."
• "Perhaps Mother Nature has a much more elegant plan in mind, just to keep us from focusing on a particular theme of population reduction."
• "It is our unified voice that changes the market forces that drive social norms and creates and reinforces the momentum that we require."
• "I deal with anxiety by closing my eyes to the objections, persisting, and remembering that I will always have a few people on my side."

Guest: Dr. Lise Van Susteren

Dr. Lise Van Susteren is a general and forensic psychiatrist in Washington, DC, and an expert on the physical and psychological impacts of climate change. In 2011 she co-authored "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the U.S. - Why the US Mental Health System Is Not Prepared". Van Susteren is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University and has been a consultant to the Executive Branch of the US government profiling world leaders.

After receiving her medical degree from the University of Paris she practiced medicine in West Africa, at community health centers and homeless shelters in metropolitan Washington DC. In addition to community organizing on climate issues, Van Susteren serves on the Boards of Earth Day Network, and Physicians for Social Responsibility and is a co-founder of "Climate Psychiatry Alliance," and "Climate Psychology Alliance – North America ", professional groups dedicated to promoting awareness and action on climate from a mental health perspective. Van Susteren is the expert witness on the psychological damages to young people from inaction on climate in Juliana v US Government, in Held v Montana and in the European Court of Human Rights.

She is a frequent contributor on television, radio, and in print media. In 2006 Dr. Van Susteren sought the Democratic nomination to the US Senate from Maryland. Her book, "Emotional Inflammation – Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times" was published in April 2020.

Podcast Intro:

Men are expected to be strong and mighty. This causes them to keep everything to themselves, not wanting to appear weak. They often keep their emotions to themselves as they believe that they will be used against them once they show their weakness. This prevents them from being happy as they have to pretend what society has imposed on them and hide their feelings.

In recent years, society has developed a variety of demands that require a variety of approaches. To meet these demands, men need to adapt. The process of understanding what needs to be done involves growth and development.

Angus Nelson is a coach and the founder of Evolve Men Coaching. He is among the nation's leading performance strategists as he helps ambitious men achieve freedom, happiness, and purpose. In this episode, he shares his experience as a coach and his views and insights on the growth, development, and history of men in this lifetime.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• The Necessary Mindsets for Business, Marketing, Sales, or Life
• Discoveries After Divorce
• Coaching: What Is It, Why, And How Does It Work?
• Personal Growth & Development
• Fatherhood & Family
• Changing the face of modern manhood
• Leadership burnout
• Insights into the mind of a high-achieving man
• The art of ambition

• How do men and their ambitions bring negativity?
• How do we upgrade ourselves for personal growth and development?
• How do men change throughout the years?
• How does coaching in men works?
• What are the views and insights of a man?

Links/CTA:

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  • How to Build Community with Peter Block
  • Psychedelics, Ayurveda, and Your Next Identity Evolution with Todd Caldecott
  • Yoga for Men with Dean Pohlman
  • Inquiry Practice on Your Beliefs on Healing, Goals, and Your Crossroads based Liminal Thinking Work of Dave Gray
• Check out related links on Angus Nelson
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  • whatismymountain.com

Highlights:

• Cate shares a story about her trip to Europe in the rooftop bars in Madrid
• Cate shares about the midlife crises of men and women
• Cate tells about an article on why Jewish girls succeed

Timestamps:

• [0:48] Introduction
• [4:44] Men Stereotypes
• [7:28] Ambition
• [9:46] Leadership Burnout
• [12:08] Emotions
• [19:55] Personal Growth and Development
• [32:11] Trauma and Healthiness
• [34:05] Ignorance
• [38:47] Changes in Modern Manhood
• [44:39] Coaching in Men
• [51:44] Insights of a Man
• [56:56] Fear and Guilt
• [1:05:16] Final Message

Quotes:

• "We refuse to share weakness, vulnerability, and transparency because we believe on some level in our business structure that someone is going to weaponize any kind of weakness that we show."
• "It's not that we pursue happiness because that will be fleeting. You're going to be chasing that all the time. It's filling your life with the things that naturally and effervescently give you happiness and joy."
• "Until a man knows who he is, he can never become or be anything outside of that."
• "All that identity shifting we did in the beginning now brings about these new opportunities. Because you've upgraded yourself, you want to attract your brain and this equilibrium to attract these higher frequent levels, relationships, experiences, and opportunities."
• "Just like everything else, we attract what we are. If we're trying to pursue these great and mighty things, what we find is that those great and mighty things are filled with emptiness. Because we're doing them out of the pursuit of validation."
• "Transformation in your life is nothing more than having a context of tools that help you advance your understanding, yielding, and letting go."
• "I'm giving myself permission, and that permission is all the power you need."

Guest Bio: Angus Nelson

Angus is a man on a mission. He's a high-performance coach for men, one of America's top performance strategists, and the Founder of Evolve Men Coaching. He takes years of best practices from advising Fortune 500 leaders to help ambitious men create more freedom, fulfillment, and focused intent to make the impact in the world they were designed for. His past clients include members from Fortune 500 brands to celebrity personalities while speaking at headquarters for America's top brands such as Walmart, Coca-Cola, BMW, Disney, Whole Foods, and Adobe.

Angus is married with three children and lives in Lisbon, Portugal, with their two bougie dogs.

Podcast Intro:

Everyone has their own identity that is unique to themselves. But sometimes we find it hard to be our own selves, especially when trying to please everyone around us, even ourselves.

In this episode, Cate talks about human identity and how changing your habits will affect your lifestyle and how you identify yourself. She also tackles the issues surrounding the topic and intertwines some of her own stories to fit the subject. Stay tuned!

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• How do you change your habits?
• What will changing habits do for your lifestyle and identity?
• How do you know who you're choosing to be?
• What does it feel like to not need to be a perfectionist?

Links/CTA:

• Check out other podcast releases from Yogahealer
  • Your MONEY + Your Time: The INTERMITTENT FASTING Habit: Cost/Benefit Analysis Workshop
  • Liminal Thinking with Dave Gray
  • Regenerative Leadership + Regenerating Thinking, Building, Living with Jaime Hogan
  • Positive Thinking Techniques to Achieve Peak Performance

Highlights:

• Cate talks about going to Minneapolis for her college reunion
• Cate announces her upcoming meetups in Jersey Shore and Minnesota
• Cate tells a story about going to the International Folk Music Festival in Butte, Montana

Timestamps:

• [3:06] Alicia's post
• [10:01] Evolution Exercise
• [13:37] Skills and your Future Self
• [23:42] Choosing who you're going to be
• [29:56] Satisfaction
• [35:08] Choosing your response
• [43:22] Teachings
• [44:19] Music Festival
• [50:26] Spiral Evolution and words of wisdom

Quotes:

• "While this might be repetitive to some of you, it'll be brand new to others. The fascinating part of perennial wisdom is that it's always relevant to whatever's going on in your life."
• "I'm the kind of person who leans on the support of my people. Happiness is found in the evolving self at ease and the beingness of evolution."
• "The more aware you are of the phase you're in, the more strategic you can be. The more strategic you are, the more opportunities you create."
• "If you put the hardest thing first, build resilience. Then harder things become much easier things."
• "I have a belief that synchronicity matters. I want to be available for synchronicity."

Podcast Intro:

What's with intermittent fasting, and why is this approach getting so much attention? People are engaged with intermittent fasting to lose weight, improve their health and simplify their lifestyles. It can have powerful effects on your body and brain and may even help you live longer.

In this episode, Cate Stillman discusses her experiences with Yoga Healing and Intermittent Fasting and the positive effects they have had on her health. Don't miss out!

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• How much food do I need to eat?
• Calculating the result of Intermittent Fasting
• Food Cost
• Investing in personal health
• Consumer culture
• Result of Intermittent Fasting

Links/CTA:

• Check out the latest in Yogahealer
• Want to know more about Intermittent Fasting? Listen to our previous episodes:
  • An Evolutionary Perspective on The Intermittent Fasting Revolution: The Brain Science with Mark Mattson
  • FAQ on INTERMITTENT FASTING for WOMEN vs. MEN, FAMILIES, TEENS, KIDS
  • Intermittent Fasting for Your Body Type
  • Intermittent Fasting, Autophagy + Cell Health + Ayurveda

Highlights:

• Cate changed her perspective in life when she started doing intermittent fasting, she challenged herself and set personal goals to achieve greater results.
• For Cate, thinking time is very important because she has the power to recalibrate her thoughts on how she can make a lot of money. She prioritizes thinking time also; she very much enjoys thinking and strategy.
• There are many proven effects of intermittent fasting like increased cognitive function, neuroplasticity, and a lot more.
• Cate has better relationships when she starts intermittent fasting, and her relationship with everyone will improve with intermittent fasting. She admits that she is a better parent. And she starts there like nothing that's the most important will ever get.

Timestamps:

• [1:00] Intermittent Fasting
• [4:27] How much food do you need to eat?
• [6:20] Food Cost
• [10:03] Consumer Culture VS Creator Culture
• [20:19] Thinking Time
• [27:11] Proven Effects of Intermittent Fasting
• [33:43] What do you need to design your life?
• [42:38] Value of Cycle

Quotes:

• "The more I turn up intermittent fasting to deal with the healing crises that it brings on, mostly through a fasting response, hydration response, and healing response to needing to heal, the more I need less outside services for health and outside supplements."
• "With intermittent fasting, because we're simply consuming less, we start to consume less in all areas of our life. So we start to do less, we start to do better, we start to know why."
• "When you get on the other side of the intermittent fasting habit. I promise this doesn't occur to you to think about food. Not in that way. You go to the refrigerator; there happens to be food; maybe your future self did some things to help prepare food so that it's really simple to make your glorious meal and nourish your glorious soul."
• "There are opportunities everywhere you look all the time, all the time, and they keep getting better. You know what to say yes to, and that's what you choose to do with your focus."
• "The culture is so toxic that you don't design your own lifestyle super intelligently. Like you cannot assume that like the normal around you has the right answers."
• "Trust increased communication and all that's coming from like, you're more honest in yourself because intermittent fasting is going to take out it's going to refine self at the heart of it."

Podcast Intro:

What's with intermittent fasting, and why is this approach getting so much attention? People are engaged with intermittent fasting to lose weight, improve their health and simplify their lifestyles. It can have powerful effects on your body and brain and may even help you live longer.

In this episode, Cate Stillman discusses her experiences with Yoga Healing and Intermittent Fasting and the positive effects they have had on her health. Don’t miss out!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How much food do I need to eat?
• Calculating the result of Intermittent Fasting
• Food Cost
• Investing in personal health
• Consumer culture
• Result of Intermittent Fasting

Links/CTA:

• Check out the latest in Yogahealer
• Want to know more about Intermittent Fasting? Listen to our previous episodes:
  • An Evolutionary Perspective on The Intermittent Fasting Revolution: The Brain Science with Mark Mattson
  • FAQ on INTERMITTENT FASTING for WOMEN vs. MEN, FAMILIES, TEENS, KIDS
  • Intermittent Fasting for Your Body Type
  • Intermittent Fasting, Autophagy + Cell Health + Ayurveda

Highlights:

• Cate changed her perspective in life when she started doing intermittent fasting, she challenged herself and set personal goals to achieve greater results.
• For Cate, thinking time is very important because she has the power to recalibrate her thoughts on how she can make a lot of money. She prioritizes thinking time also; she very much enjoys thinking and strategy. 
• There are many proven effects of intermittent fasting like increased cognitive function, neuroplasticity, and a lot more.
• Cate has better relationships when she starts intermittent fasting, and her relationship with everyone will improve with intermittent fasting. She admits that she is a better parent. And she starts there like nothing that's the most important will ever get.

Timestamps:

• [1:00]  Intermittent Fasting 
• [4:27] How much food do you need to eat?
• [6:20] Food Cost
• [10:03] Consumer Culture VS Creator Culture
• [20:19] Thinking Time
• [27:11] Proven Effects of Intermittent Fasting
• [33:43]  What do you need to design your life?
• [42:38] Value of Cycle

Quotes:

•  "The more I turn up intermittent fasting to deal with the healing crises that it brings on, mostly through a fasting response, hydration response, and healing response to needing to heal, the more I need less outside services for health and outside supplements."
• "With intermittent fasting, because we're simply consuming less, we start to consume less in all areas of our life. So we start to do less, we start to do better, we start to know why."
• "When you get on the other side of the intermittent fasting habit. I promise this doesn't occur to you to think about food. Not in that way. You go to the refrigerator; there happens to be food; maybe your future self did some things to help prepare food so that it's really simple to make your glorious meal and nourish your glorious soul."
• "There are opportunities everywhere you look all the time, all the time, and they keep getting better. You know what to say yes to, and that's what you choose to do with your focus."
• "The culture is so toxic that you don't design your own lifestyle super intelligently. Like you cannot assume that like the normal around you has the right answers."
• "Trust increased communication and all that's coming from like, you're more honest in yourself because intermittent fasting is going to take out it's going to refine self at the heart of it."

Podcast Intro:

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the world's most commonly used weed killer. Over 300 million pounds of glyphosate-based herbicide are sprayed on farms and foods yearly. Agrochemical companies claim that glyphosate is safe for humans, animals, and the environment. But scientific studies suggest otherwise.

Glyphosate has created a deadly disruption of the gut microbiome. Its effect on protein synthesis and the body's ability to use and transport sulfur has greatly affected human health for the past decade.

In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Seneff talks about the effects of Glyphosate and how it is destroying our Health and Environment. She also talks about what happens if you don't eat organic food and its immense effect on the human body.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• Sulfate is a vastly overlooked molecule playing many crucial roles in human metabolism.
• Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) greatly disturbs sulfate homeostasis in the body.
• Many biologically active molecules containing carbon rings transport sulfate throughout the body.
• Heparan sulfate is a complex sulfated polysaccharide that populates the extracellular matrix of most cells and is essential for the lysosomes to recycle cellular debris. It also controls neurodevelopment in the brain.
• Heparan sulfate deficiency in the brain ventricles is a characteristic feature of autism in humans and mice.
• Serotonin is an important neurotransmitter whose deficiency is associated with obesity, depression, and violent behavior. Serotonin is produced in large quantities in the gut and then sulfated before being transported to the brain.
• Cholesterol sulfate, synthesized in the skin in response to sunlight, is another important source of sulfate for the brain and the body.
• Endothelial nitric oxide synthase synthesizes nitric oxide and sulfur dioxide, switching between the two based on received signals from the blood.
• Nitrate and sulfate are the yin and yang controlling blood flow.
• Why you should eat Organic Foods
• What is Glyphosate
• How Chemicals and Pesticides affect the Human Body
• How the Body Breaks down Glyphosate
• Why Organic Foods are Essential to the Human Body
• How Glyphosate is destroying our Health and Environment
• What happens when you ferment the cruciferous?

Links/CTA:

• Check out the latest events in Yogahealer
• Other related topics:
  • How Chronic Inflammation Causes Burnout, Depression, and Chronic Disease
  • What is Medicine? Cate reads from WILD HABITS on Chronic Inflammation, the Pharmaceutical Epidemic, and How to Heal
  • Intermittent Fasting for Your Body Type
• Stephanie Seneff's Links
  • http://stephanieseneff.net
  • Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate is Destroying Our Health and the Environment
  • Cholesterol Sulfate Deficiency and Coronary Heart Disease
  • Sulfate: A Common Nutrient Deficiency You're Probably Ignoring
  • Linkedin Profile
  • https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/stephanie-seneff

Highlights:

• Cate says that one of the things she sees with not having natural childbirth much in this country in the last 100 years is they take that power away from a woman to have a conscious birth, and then now she's going to be less protective of her yard. She will be less protective of the food she's putting in their body. And it's all these breakdowns that happened in human consciousness.
• Cate shares the article in The New York Times that their idea to help farmers is number one.
• Cate says that the number one thing people think people can do is get involved with local farmers, promote organic, pay more, eat less, and eat healthily.

Timestamps:

• [01:53] The Pollution caused by Profit-Producing Chemicals
• [07:41] What is Glyphosate?
• [09:20] The Monsanto Tests
• [12:59] The Predator Journal
• [15:14] The Rising Autism Rates and Comorbidities
• [20:27] The Harm to Natural Life caused by Glyphosate
• [27:43] Fiber that Breaks down Glyphosate
• [30:17] Stephanie's Interest in Natural Birth
• [33:10] The Result of Fermenting Cruciferous
• [34:09] Countries that banned the use of Glyphosate
• [36:10] The Effects of Genetically Modified Seeds on the Earth
• [38:24] The Chronic Inflammation Epidemic
• [40:03] How much Genetically Engineered Produce is in the Market?
• [46:39] The Resurgence of Nitrogen-Fixing Agents

Quotes:

• "People are smart. The problem is they don't understand the need for avoiding the toxic chemicals in everything that they do. We have to always think about safety first because there are so many chemicals we're putting out into the environment with inadequate study. We don't realize how toxic these things can be."
• "Fermentation is complicated because it can actually introduce new metabolites that could be toxic. But it also takes away metabolites that are toxic. Things are not toxic if your livers are working. Enzymes in the liver are crucial for metabolizing many of these complex molecules that are made by these microbes, and so it becomes liver toxic if the liver can't use those enzymes to break it down."
• "As you're not being poisoned, your body can handle things like sunlight very well and use it to its advantage to using it as a source of energy. But the things that you need to do that get messed up by the poisons, then it becomes toxic."
• "Go buy organic and explain to your neighbors and relatives why they should also go buy organic and get them to do it."

Guest: Stephanie Seneff

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She has a BS degree from MIT in biology and MS, EE, and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, Roundup, and the mineral, sulfur.

Since 2008, she has authored over three dozen peer-reviewed journal papers related to biochemistry and toxicology and has delivered numerous slide presentations at conferences around the world. She is the author of a book on glyphosate, titled "Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment," which was released by Chelsea Green publishers on July 1, 2021. This book was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best non-fiction books of 2021.

Podcast Intro:

Durga Leela (a spiritual name) is a person in long-term recovery, a certified Ayurveda Practitioner, yoga teacher, and yoga therapist (IAYT certified) from the UK and now based in the US. She has shared Yoga as a Recovery Pathway in several Recovery Conferences over the last 20 years. She has also served as the Director of the Ayurveda Programs at the Sivananda Ashram in California since 2003 and is a professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA).

In this episode, she shares her journey of healing and recovery from addiction. She also talks about the issues of Health Care regarding addiction, how she used Yoga to heal from alcoholism, and the emotional and mental health issues surrounding addiction.

Personal story

• being a child of an alcoholic,
• becoming alcoholic myself in my teens,
• finding yoga in my mid-20s,
• a few suicide attempts,
• and losing my mother to alcoholism when I was 32 years old.
• Shortly after, I was fired from a job I was headhunted into. Then I "did a geographic"— moving from London to Lake Tahoe to take a year off and sort myself out. But "wherever you go, there you are," and after nine months in the United States, my new life was in shambles. I once again felt desperate, but this time I took myself to a meeting of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
• 18 months sober, allopathic medical professionals offered me antidepressants for their diagnosis of clinical depression
• Book Yoga of Recovery, Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda with Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction - YoR works with people who have a sex addiction, eating disorders, codependents with no substance abuse, and others where substance abuse is present but it is not the primary presenting issue. I work with people 16–84 years old; those who are members of 12-step programs and those who are not. We offer help to those who want to come off the pharmaceuticals they have been prescribed but find they are now dependent on them.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

We talk about the roots of the addictive behaviors: the main causative factor is the ego, the idea of having disconnection from spirit, disconnection from life.

How Ayurveda is a foundational behavioral health care system that can help people thrive in long-term (emotional) sobriety spread addiction - it's not just about alcohol and drugs! addiction is treated by the acute care model but needs a continuum of care from recovery-oriented systems of care - a chronic care model - and overall CARE rather than CURE which tends to be mainly at the level of pharmaceuticals and surgery - but this does not work so well for problems of addiction article: Ayurveda Journal of Health

• I truly believe Ayurveda is the best system of behavioral health care for all modern chronic diseases.
• sobriety, service, and fellowship (the three pillars of 12-step principles)
• Addiction is a bio-pscyhosocial-emotional-cultural-economic-political, etc.
• "character defects" that underlie all addictions—the one that is most ubiquitous being our tendency toward codependency—our ability to see in the other what is wrong but not be able to see or deal with it in ourselves
• "Svastha"— and addiction
• UT and "Svastha"

• This was very interesting to me as it fits with what I'd been told in AA—that addiction was a "spiritual malady" and I was "spiritually sick." Ayurveda describes all diseases as "forgetting our true nature is spirit."
• Dr. Harikrishnan, Medical Director of Vaidyagram Ayurvedic Clinic in Coimbatore, India, states, "Addiction arises when we lose the purpose of our life. Vedic literature tells us we only get a human birth after several thousand other lives. The purpose of human life is to evolve, to go to a further level. When you have a bigger purpose, this guides you better in how to live each day.
• PK and recovery to reset cellularly. Dr. Harikrishnan, "We recommend cleansing the body through PanchaKarma-this eliminates the toxins and allows you a break from the circumstances-time away to cleanse and calm down, introduce new practices, change your lifestyle, and feel the effects of the new habits. It takes three months for food to go to the seventh tissue; within three months, our body is completely changed. Hence it is ideal for spending a minimum of six weeks to three months in a staged recovery process." YoR offers Ayurvedic Pancha karma retreats in India.
• Out-of-pocket spending vs. what is covered by gov't or insurance.
• The first stage is the deep cleanse; the second stage is learning both the principles and tools of Yoga and Ayurveda to help us make better decisions, and the third stage gives time to offer service to the others-the best way to get out of self. This increases confidence and self-esteem and allows us to share the gifts of our recovery with others. We then go back to live our lives knowing that we have a purpose, feeling calmer and stronger, knowing our capacity, pacifying Vata by eating properly and applying oil daily. (From the Book - online course - YoR Between the mat and the meeting - Ayurveda for our addictiveness; Understanding of our suffering determines the nature of our recovery)

Links/CTA:

• Blogs by Cate Stillman:
  • Sthira, Abhyasa + Body Thrive
  • Diving Deeper Into Constitutions
  • Body Thrive – Why It Works
• Podcasts
  • My Path towards A Life Of Thrive with Cece LaCena
  • Take a Moment of Mindfulness and Breathe with Jill Novak
• Yoga of Recovery
• IG: @yogaofrecovery
• Yoga of Recovery YouTube

Highlights:

• Cate shares her experiences living in a Ski Town
• Cate talks about the Body Thrive
• Cate shares how she became intrigued with the Depp-Heard Case
• Cate talks about Addiction as a Spiritual Malady
• Cate talks about self-investment in addiction recovery

Timestamps:

• [02:27] Durga's Healing Journey
• [08:29] Support from the Community
• [13:23] Getting Introduced to Dharma
• [16:52] Working with Addiction and the Importance of Behavioral Self-Care
• [27:38] Emotional Inflammation
• [34:18] The Biological Reality of Addiction
• [41:08] The Negative Effects of Sugar
• [46:54] Becoming Whole
• [48:52] Healing the Habits

Quotes:

• "You know you're in recovery when you start wishing for a better past. You start to want to empower yourself, and that is to get up early in the morning and do these daily routines."
• "Constantly needing to have medicine and nourishment with you psychologically reprograms your experience of needing something else to be whole,"
• "You can't really have someone just come off of heavy substances. There is a timeline of detox to treatment and recovery."
• "We will attract to ourselves the people, circumstances, and events that give us opportunities to work through some of the life lessons that we're here for in this life when we thirst for truth."

Guest BIO: Durga Leela

Durga Leela (a spiritual name) is a person in long-term recovery, a certified Ayurveda Practitioner, yoga teacher, and yoga therapist (IAYT certified) from the UK and now based in the US. She has shared Yoga as a Recovery Pathway in several Recovery Conferences over the last 20 years. She has also served as the Director of the Ayurveda Programs at the Sivananda Ashram in California since 2003 and is a professional member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA).

Podcast Intro:

When people get diagnosed with something either chronic or terminal, they suddenly are at the mercy of their doctors. Because of the overwhelming, people don't always feel competent to stand in their own truth or even ask the right questions.

Many people try to fight diseases with therapy. Unfortunately for others, healing from chronic diseases isn't for them. With the usage of Cannabis and other THC products, people have had the chance to heal and even have much better health in life.

In this episode, Joanna Matson-Tandberg will share her experiences with cannabis and how it is transforming the medicine industry. Stay tuned!

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• How can cannabis aid in the healing of a disease?
• Can you treat cancer with gummies or other stuff that is sugar-based?
• What is sublingual?

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Highlights:

• We have a global mental health crisis magnified by and contributes to chronic sleep problems and digestive issues. People need and want to feel empowered and more in control; to be able to do more on their own to improve their health and wellbeing.

• For people to gain freedom and independence in their lives, and to take back control of their bodies and mind, they need hope, wisdom, and change.

• We need integrated approaches to self-care, self-love, and daily living routines and habits. People are hungry to learn and access the tools necessary to find contentment in life and freedom to handle daily stress and still stay balanced, grounded, and connected.

• Magazine Interview
  • Hemp 101- The Basics by Veronica Castillo
  • The French Toast: "The Connection Between Ayurveda, Cannabis, And Psychedelics" by Becky Garrison
  • Radio Interview about Ayurveda on the NOWe show in Canada
• Cate highlighted that cardiovascular disease is a disease of chronic inflammation.
• Cate shares her thoughts that there's so much variability in guiding members in a course in terms of the medicine and the dose.
• Cate tells a moment when she's going against the culture.

Timestamps:

• [01:28] The Guest's Background
• [04:57] Using THC Oil to treat Cancer
• [10:17] Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases
• [13:50] Cancer Death Rates
• [15:50} The Variability of Ayurvedic Medicine
• [18:24] Consuming Cannabis Edibles
• [20:20] The Ideal Therapeutic Way to Receive Cannabis
• [22:28] Where people get their own THC Products
• [26:13] Going Against Culture
• [31:13] Venturing into Cannabis Treatments
• [40:36] Getting Control
• [41:27] The Plant Medicine and Pill Culture
• [46:57] The Citizen Data
• [52:51] Plant-Based Products

Quotes:

• "Eat the cannabis in an edible form. You're going to feel the effects about eight times more than if you're doing a sublingual or a suppository because the way cannabis is metabolized through the liver gives you eight times the increase of sensation."
• "It's easy to feel crazy when you're counterculture, but it makes so much sense in your own body and intuition. You feel that you are violating yourself when you venture into something not accepted by a common culture."
• Eventually, you start to get your freedom back. You create your power source inside yourself. There is intelligence so much greater than we understand and so much greater than we have. Even though these plants have incredible healing powers, they also have poison powers because too much of anything is bad."

Guest Bio: Joanna Matson-Tandberg

ZV Botanicals Founder & CEO, Joanna (Jo) Matson-Tandberg

Joanna is the founder and CEO of ZV Botanicals, a lifestyle and wellness brand offering hand-made CBD-infused Ayurvedic formulas, like tinctures, bitters, body oils, and salves. These small-batch, organic, and 3rd party tested therapeutic formulations are sold directly to the consumer with special attention to educational and inspirational content about healing through Ayurveda and stimulation of the Endocannabinoid system.

Joanna strives to embrace Ayurvedic, Yoga, and cannabis as true healing medicines in all aspects of her life. She learned of the science behind the plants as a form of healing from a debilitating life with Crohn's, Thyroid disease, and severe degenerative arthritis of her spine.

Her passion for healing naturally extended to her creating a healing protocol for her father, who in, 2015 was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic melanoma to his lungs, stomach, lymph, and adrenal glands. He overcame this devastating diagnosis by following an Ayurvedic and cannabis oil regime and recently received his "no metastatic masses" radiology report from his oncologist at Emory Medical.

Joanna is a NAMA-recognized Ayurveda Wellness Counselor from the Kerala Ayurveda Academy and is a certified Cannabis Clinician through The Medical Cannabis Institute and Dr. Sulak's Healer programs. Memberships include the American Herbalists Guild, GreenMed Research, Yoga Alliance, Project CBD, and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. She is also a faculty member for the Holistic Cannabis Academy and NAMA Pace Provider.

Joanna lives in the Pacific NW with her artist and physicist partner Erik Tandberg. Along with running ZV Botanicals, she teaches Ayurvedic wellness classes and retreats, offers cannabis and ayurvedic counseling, and creates powerful herbal remedies. She strives to balance her life through yoga and mindfulness practices to better fulfill her life's work of sharing her own experience of healing and helping others.

Podcast Intro:

What does it mean to put your wisdom into action? What does that mean exactly, and what does it have to do with time? What does this have to do with growing up or getting older? Our bodies should get smarter over time. For wisdom to be embodied, you have to live it, which means you have to do the things you know.

In many ways, we're stuck in allopathic ways of thinking and beliefs. We live in a culture where allopathy is the norm. It's hard to see things from someone else's point of view unless we've somehow risen above our own culture and understood other cultures on a cultural level. Only then do we have the freedom to choose.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• Can you trust yourself?
• What's a woman's I Ching?
• How can you give yourself your own parameters?
• What's your keystone habit?
• What happens when you tell people what you're excited about?
• What do you believe about health?

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Highlights:

• Cate recommends the book "A Woman's I Ching" by Diane Stein. Cate likes Diane's language about when you don't know these uncertain times.
• Cate shares her experience with Indy when they're on the beach to work out.
• Cate reminds everyone to expand their awareness of physiology to understand what other cultures believe about how the body works.

Timestamps:

• [01:33] Laser Coaching
• [06:58] Articulate your own beliefs?
• [11:01] A new power to trust yourself
• [11:48] Big factor that comes up often with decision-making
• [14:22] Limiting Speech
• [21:52] Live the wisdom that you know
• [22:31] The Vedic Tradition
• [25:56] Mentally and Physically go inward
• [28:50] Habits that slow you down
• [30:26] The nervous system is in the bone marrow
• [33:14] Beliefs about healing traditions
• [34:41] Hardest things about belief

Quotes:

• "If someone's always been rebelling against our culture, it really changes things rather than if someone's felt like overwhelmed by culture in the past, and that culture steered their decision making and that's ended up in a place that has been lackluster on the personal empowerment front, left something to be desired."
• "The idea of saying I will not be discussing this, thinking about this. Because my tendency throughout my life has been to be quiet. Just sit there and be stubborn not to do what people want me to do. But just think about the fact that I'm doing that too much, not just settle with it. Think about it too much. Think about it, okay, I'm stubborn, I'm not doing this thing because the only way I can have control over anything in my life is by not doing the thing."
• "From the Vedic tradition, they were very clear about these teachings. If your mind is spinning, you are burning the depth of integrity of your immune system. You're either dispersing it or you're burning it. And so what does this mean? This is so fascinating how resting with ease and full awareness is the practice. It's a choice. It's a habit."
• "Where the senses go, the mind goes. We have to choose, we have to be careful about how we do our sense of organ self-care, and we have to be careful about taking the time that has nothing going on. So that the mind can unwind a bit."
• "You take something if you pull a card like that in the I Ching. And now as a time of waiting, that's how you are able to take action still. So it's not procrastination. It's a conscious engagement with tabling something and building deeper energy in the process."

Podcast Intro:

There's too much stuff in our emotional body that we're not processing. We're just covering up small bits and pieces of food as we go. Emotional inflammation, in addition to physical inflammation, has an impact on our physiology. The negative pressures we face lead to an unhealthy lifestyle that has long-term consequences.

In this episode, Cate Stillman talks about the most prominent negative stressors we have and the root of chronic inflammation. She shares how negative stressors affect emotional and physical health and how we can better care for our physiology. Tune in to learn more!

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• What intermittent fasting does?
• How to Start Intermittent Fasting
• How to Lose Belly Fat and Tone the Muscles
• What is happening with fat cells?
• How to have a Healthier Physiology
• How to Remove Negative Stressors
• How to Develop a Fasting Habit
• What pattern most people are in and why does it lead to disease?
• Why do people that have chronic inflammation have a hard time being adaptable to new bacteria and new viruses?

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Highlights:

• Cate talks about the importance of understanding Autophagy
• Cate shares the two sides of the Human Organs
• Cate discusses the Modern Culture of Overeating
• Cate talks about the evolution of Chronic Inflammation

Timestamps:

• [03:00] Eating Rhythm
• [05:58] Number one habit that creates Chronic Inflammation
• [07:00] How Negative Stressors Disorganize our Physiology
• [09:14] How Humans mate based on Physiology
• [11:37] Positive Stressors
• [13:29] How much should we do Intermittent Fasting?
• [15:14] Cate's Intermittent Fasting Challenge
• [16:49] Negative Stressor
• [18:46] Inflammation leads to disease
• [21:46] Chronic Allostasis
• [24:25] What the Immune System is Designed to do
• [27:02] What Happens When We Start to Fast?
• [29:13] What happens if you don't have Autophagy?

Quotes:

• "The number one habit that's creating chronic inflammation is eating too frequently. It's a modern culture where we snack late and sit on our asses way too much. We prefer convenience over real food, we make decisions to make us feel good in the short term. They don't make you feel relaxed and aware and like you have all the time and all the money that you need. We end up worrying too much and sacrificing sleep. Those are all a result of decreased neuroplasticity from eating too frequently."

• "As you become more integrated with your physiology through the fasting habit, you actually can activate the deeper muscles of your soul and your abdominal transverse. That also gives you tone in your lower belly, which gives you tone and your lower back. It gives you tone in the side abdominals. What that does is actually accentuates your waist-to-hip ratio. You're also supported in your lower chakras."

• "The more you actually understand your physiology, the more you can get yourself to skip a meal."
• "We have been evolving with bacteria and viruses. Viruses are a much bigger subset of genetic diversity than bacteria. You have your human DNA cells, you have your microbiome cells, and then you have your virus, which is huge and expansive. Our physiology is meant to constantly adapt to what's coming in. We don't get to adapt if we don't have lysosomal action. If that's all going to digest food, you are depleting your adaptability. That will accelerate your aging and it leaves you very vulnerable to new viruses and bacteria entering the evolutionary cycle alongside mammals. It's nothing to be afraid of, but you should know how it works."