Trauma Rewired

Today we're talking about FOOD with Elisabeth Kristof, an expert in using applied neurology for behavior change. In this conversation, you're going to learn about cravings, emotional eating, subconscious patterns, and how you are using food to regulate your nervous system. We will also dive into her program Food Freedom, which offers you actual freedom through discovering your subconscious patterns, your beliefs, and what is in food that you really desire.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How we associate comfort, nourishment with food and how we replace the safety we're not getting in our world.
• Food is fuel
• Scarcity mindset, disordered eating & stress eating
• Fight or Flight / Freeze or Fawn Response
• Dissociation
• Outputs of your nervous system
• What the Vagus nerve is and upregulating your parasympathetic nervous system
• What is applied neurology?
• Food Freedom – And Jennifer's takeaway
• Interrupting the cycles we want to be free from
• Emotions and its relationship with food and emotional suppression

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Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher Founder of Take Root Brain & Body joins us today, she is also a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, and a Holistic Auto-Immune Practitioner. She had an auto-immune disease as a child and a later discovery of Lyme Disease. This is what drew her into holistic health and healing. She has multiple degrees in anatomy, biology and clinical neuroscience. She weaves perspectives from all of these disciplines to support full body wellness.

She uses integrative neurology and functional medicine to help people struggling with post concussion syndrome, childhood developmental disorders, chronic pain, and many other neurological and auto-immune conditions. Her hope is to build a community where anyone suffering from chronic illness can seek wellness and feel supported by a wide variety of resources specific to the healing journey.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Dr. Karla's auto-immune disease and what lead her to holistic health
• Is auto-immune rooted in childhood trauma?
• Self Regulation – children vs. adults
• What is Lyme disease and who is susceptible to it?
• TH1, TH2 & Parasites
• When she found functional neurology
• Childhood disorders she treats

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Joining us is Founder of Inner Restoration, Alison Leitheiser. Her story is nothing short of miraculous and a testament to what is possible when you're determined to heal. She found her passion helping others find hope and healing.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Alison's health challenges during her younger years
• Being quadriplegic, life before, her mental health and how she felt through her battle with it
• Gaining her mobility and independence back
• NFP and applied neurology
• Alison's time on American Ninja Warrior and hanging out with Olympians
• Bush Flower Essences and Biophoton Therapy
• Alison's programs, what they do and how she works with her clients

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About Alison Leitheiser

Everyone has their own challenges, but when I was 16, mine stopped me in my tracks! I had seizures, fatigue, organ damage and paralysis. I could not move from the neck down. A virus had gotten into my spinal cord and I became quadriplegic. Unwilling to accept my seat on the sidelines, I wanted to participate in life more and spent two decades learning and healing.

My experiences changed the course of my life as I found a passion for helping others find hope and healing. I started my road as an alternative health care practitioner in 2002, started my own clinical practice in 2009 and today I love working with people's health challenges and helping them find their way to wellness. Now I want to give that experience of feeling better, help you to participate in life more and reclaim your health!

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In this episode I will be talking about different coping tools you can add to your toolbox right now. We will be changing the physiological state in the body to the rest and digest place.

In this episode, I discuss:

• When I discovered nervous system healing and fight to repair my mind and body
• My encouragement to you to nurture yourself on your journey to heal
• Using your senses as coping tools that can help you relax
• Co-regulating and the different methods and reactions of it
• Giving gratitude for the physical body and its help with expansion
• Meditation, trauma, and training your nervous system
• Respiration tools – I guide you through 2 different breathing exercises
• The vagus nerve

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Joining us is Best-Selling Author & Founder of Thought Leader Academy, Sara Connell. She helps coaches, writers, and entrepreneurs become successful published authors and TedX in-demand speakers. She's not just here to share her story but she wants to share yours too. You are unique and you are not an imposter, there are beliefs that are holding you back that are not yours to carry anymore.

In this episode, we discuss:

• External validation comes with a loud inner critic
• Creativity is a powerful force that we don't realize
• Sarah's history of trauma in her life
• The work Sarah did to heal from her eating disorder and sexual trauma
• Identifying our repressed memories of childhood sexual trauma
• Sarah's process of meditation 'Meditate or Medicate'
• The Thought Leader Academy: the purpose and what to expect
• The fear of passing down generational trauma
• Having fun is underrated

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About Sara Connell

Ata young age her dream of being a writer was shut down when a teacher told her she wasn't good enough. Fast forward to 17 years ago when a book saved her life. Sara in between flights after a long day of traveling, in the airport book store, picks up a book that she absolutely finds herself in. Reads it endlessly & tirelessly, wakes up and makes a vow to herself. She left the abusive job, sought the help she needed to regain physically and emotionally.

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Connell, Sara. 21 Ways to Double Your Productivity, Improve Your Craft & Get Published!: A Field Guide for Writers

Connell, Sara. Bringing in Finn: An Extraordinary Surrogacy Story

Bullitt-Jonas, Margaret. Holy Hunger: A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment

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Julie Smith From The Sam Foundation joins us to talk about suicide awareness the prevention, risks, and healing form losing someone to this tragic event. Suicide, according to the CDC, is the most preventable death. In this conversation, we open up about our stories of suicidal ideation stemming from depression and domestic violence, and Julie shares the warning signs and programs they offer to bring educational training into communities, schools, and mental health professionals.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Reducing stigmas
• Julie's experience with mental illness
• How Julie's brother was the inspiration in creating The SAM Foundation
• Looking after the youth
• Jennifer's suicidal ideation experience
• Cultural shame and trauma guilt
• Suicidal people don't want to die, they want the pain to stop
• Suicide occurs when there is no hope left
• Programs and tools for people
• Recognizing the signs of suicide

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About Julie Smith

Julie Smith is the President and GA director for The SAM Foundation operating virtually, as well as in person in GA and AL. She along with her sister, Nicole Goggans, founded the organization in 2017 with the mission to prevent suicide through public awareness and education, in honor and memory of their brother Sam Johnson; because Suicide…Awareness… Means… Hope. The SAM Foundation has trained over 5000 individuals that include mental health professionals, teachers, students, school counselors, nurses, first responders and concerned community members in vital suicide prevention programs. The rapid growth of The SAM Foundation has been the result of the extreme need to combat suicide in our communities, which is a continual heartbreak.

Julie is committed to breaking the stigma of issues within mental health and becoming a resource for those affected by suicide. Julie knows the effects of extreme trauma first hand and is truly committed to learn how dealing with trauma may prevent other mental health issues and crises and will spread this awareness to others within her work in hopes of changing the stats of suicide in our nation and worldwide. Suicide has become a silent epidemic in which so many are unaware. Together with education, study, and awareness, change is possible, therefore hope is restored…

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Elisabeth and I are joined by two incredible women from the Truth Be Told program, Angie Hijl and Heather Emerson. Truth Be Told provides transformational programs through self discovery for women who are or who have been incarcerated. Resulting in increased self worth, accountability, and positive contributions to society. They focus on making women's time behind bars more meaningful. They break generational traumas so mothers and daughters don't repeat history. We will be hearing vulnerable stories from Angie, Heather, and Elisabeth today.

In this episode, we discuss:

• A program created by women for women
• Breaking generational trauma and generational incarceration
• Heather's sexual assualt and incarceration story in the military
• Elisabeth shares some of her story of trauma and addiction
• Angie shares her traumatic younger years and incarceration story
• Helping the youth with their trauma
• Guidelines and programs for women in prison
• Increasing self worth and accountability
• Healing is a collective effort

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About Angie Hijl

Originally from Orlando, Florida, with a professional background in corporate event planning, Angie created A Soiree by Angie to channel her personal style and passion for design and creativity. A Soiree has grown from designing events to custom dried floral arrangements and consulting for local Austin businesses – ranging from brand development, graphic design, photography, community relations, and social media management.

With that passion for connecting people and building community, Angie co-founded a local Women Empowerment group called Glam Soiree. Glam Soiree is a flourishing and intentional community where women of all different backgrounds and professions come together to celebrate life, support and inspire each other, set intentions for the future – and be glam while doing it. Pre-covid, Glam Soiree hosted bi-monthly events at the top restaurants and venues throughout Austin.

Angie is proud to be a Board Member of Truth Be Told. Truth Be Told is a nonprofit organization based in Austin, TX that provides transformational programs to women behind bars. Being formerly incarcerated herself, Angie is a strong supporter of women that are currently and have been involved in the criminal justice system who are working to rebuild their lives. She believes that we all have the ability to use our voice, discover our true selves, heal from past traumas, and create the life we want to live.

About Heather Emerson

Heather's mission is to change food through strengthening local food systems so that everybody wins: the community, our health, our planet. In 2016, she founded Prep To Your Door in an effort to make that a reality. The company serves Austin and Houston organic, farm-to-table meals in zero-waste packaging. All products are plant-based, gluten and dairy free.

Heather has spent the last 15 years rebuilding her life after being incarcerated for one year. Her promise upon release was to grow, be honest, and do good things. She graduated from University of Texas with dual degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics, and in 2020 with her Masters from Harvard University.

She is currently co-leading a team of 30 people and her proudest accomplishment is winning "FAVE Sustainable Business" in 2019, being invited to the board of Truth Be Told in 2020, and named as Forbes Next 1000 for 2021. Heather was also a finalist for Austin Under 40 Awards in 2020 and 2021, and won the prestigious Austin Women's Way Award for "Business to Watch."

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Today we're joined by Holly Joy McCabe. She is a leader in holistic and wellness with a company called Zen in a Bottle. She will be sharing her story with us and shows up so authentically with her knowledge of an understanding of the healing that the body is capable of. And how she helps thousands of women transform their own patterns, they're bodies and it's really beautiful!

In this episode, we discuss:

• Suicide attempt in her teenage years
• Being curious about religions
• Her traumatic younger years - Her 'Runaway Story'
• Disordered eating and mental health
• 'Living for myself'
• When Holly's health plummeted and how she shifted into physical healing and the nervous system
• Western medicine vs. Holistic health
• The subconscious programs and patterns
• Defining her work, how she she shows up, and what she's really doing

Truth Be Told is an organization, providing transformational trauma healing and programming for women behind and beyond bars. Let's raise each other up!

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I'm really looking forward to exploring ketamine and ketamine assisted therapy with Alli Waddell, Co-Founder of Illumma Ketamine Clinic. She is here to share her big story and how she found ketamine. She has an incredible story, she's going to show up very openly and authentically.

I'm a big fan of psychedelic therapy and plant medicine. It's helped me greatly with anxiety, depression, and purpose. But ketamine isn't a tool that I've worked with yet. Ketamine is breaking down barriers and leading the path in psychedelic therapy. From the history to the incredible healing properties, we're going to dive into that and learn everything we can about ketamine.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What ketamine is
• Who ketamine is not for
• Ketamine's healing capabilities
• How trauma is the root cause
• The 2 Paths -- Ketamine Therapy & Ketamine Assisted Therapy
• The process of ketamine infusion and the experience
• Alli's journey and how she found her path to healing
• 'Emotional Unpacking'
• How ketamine lasts long-term

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About Alli Waddell

Alli Waddell is the Co-Founder of Illumma Ketamine Infusion Clinic in Austin. At Illumma their mission is to help you find your light so that you can share it with the world. It is her mission to be a lifeline to those who are struggling. Her goal has always been to inspire, educate, and empower everyone to create a happy and healthy life. Ketamine therapy is just another tool in the toolbox.

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Elisabeth Kristof and I sit down to talk about our five takeaways from a year of healing and a year of recording. We revisit some of our past episode conversations to discuss what we learned and our hopes for the future.

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