Today Anne and Michelle are chatting with Amanda Nibley, a nutrition and fitness coach who changed her life with the help of a real food diet and loves helping others do the same. Amanda shares her own health journey and offers advice for adjusting your mindset and making a healing diet work with your lifestyle.

Topics

• :50 - Introduction
• 4:20 - What Amanda is loving
• 8:30 - Amanda’s health journey
• 22:30 - How to find acceptance
• 25:00 - What to do when there’s never enough time
• 38:30 - Making sustainable changes
• 45:00 - Following your intuition
• 48:20 - Where to find Amanda
• 52:03 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

Uplevel True Nutrition: Amanda's Website

Amanda's Instagram

Uplevel True Nutrition Facebook Group

Nutrition Coaching - Unbound Wellness

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This week Anne and Michelle are answering more of your questions! They tackle an inquiry about leaky gut, which leads to a discussion about anxiety and its potential influence on other aspects of health, and they talk about what to consider when you have thyroid symptoms but normal lab results.

Topics

• 1:05 - Anne’s updates
• 4:00 - Michelle’s updates
• 6:42 - What Michelle is loving
• 10:00 - Leaky gut
• 21:40 - Anxiety
• 27:55 - Food reintroductions and gluten
• 32:12 - Thyroid symptoms with normal lab results
• 39:00 - Hormone imbalance
• 45:17 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

Balanced Bites Podcast Episode #319: Back in Control

Nutritionish Podcast

Book: Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms?

Chris Kresser: Why Your “Normal” Thyroid Lab Results May Not Be Normal

Nutrition Coaching - Unbound Wellness

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This week is the podcast’s one-year anniversary! To celebrate, Anne and Michelle are doing a rapid fire Q&A--everything from favorite ice cream flavor to how to find a functional medicine doctor.

Topics

• :50 - Anne’s updates
• 4:45 - Michelle’s updates
• 10:55 - Happy anniversary, Unbound Healing!
• 12:35 - Quick fire Q&A

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Healing Your Adrenals & Stress Response w/ Michelle Hoover and Kara Halderman  

Anne and Michelle talk with Sarah Small, an intuitive coach and bioenergetic practitioner, about using crystals for chronic illness. Sarah explains how crystal healing works with the energetic frequencies of our bodies, what she means by the “subtle body,” and her suggestions for starter crystals.

Topics

• :45 - Introduction
• 2:36 - What Sarah is loving
• 7:39 - Vibrational medicine and intuition
• 9:08 - Sarah’s history with crystals
• 14:15 - Energetic frequency
• 22:53 - The frequency of crystals
• 27:55 - Energetic distortions in the body
• 33:34 - Why do we use crystals?
• 36:30 - The subtle energy body
• 40:09 - Using pendulums
• 42:00 - Crystals for chronic illness
• 48:45 - Law of attraction
• 51:10 - Charging, tuning, retuning, and cleansing
• 53:43 - Where to buy quality crystals
• 56:16 - Top three crystals
• 59:27 - Electromagnetic frequencies
• 1:05:30 - Where to find Sarah
• 1:09:23 - Sarah’s meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Kathi's Krystals
• Healing Crystals
• Energy Muse
• The water experiments
• Autoimmune Tribe (Sarah's Instagram)
• Crystal Healing for Chronic Illness course
• Healing Uncensored (Sarah's podcast)

Today Anne is talking to Chelsea Gross, a certified transformational nutrition coach and blogger at Nutrition with Chelsea. Chelsea shares her own still-in-progress story of healing from health issues and gives her advice on how to approach healing diets when you have a history of disordered eating, intuitive eating, issues that everybody has but nobody talks about, and self-love.

Topics

• :48 - Introduction
• 3:57 - What Chelsea is loving
• 10:00 - Chelsea’s health + healing story
• 29:50 - Accepting your circumstances and feeling your emotions
• 36:10 - Adapting a healing diet when you have a history of disordered eating
• 46:36 - Eating intuitively on a healing diet
• 55:00 - You’re not alone: common issues
• 01:01:01 - How to break free from disordered eating
• 01:05:30 - The emotional component of breaking free
• 01:10:44 - Self-love
• 01:15:00 - More of Chelsea’s offerings
• 01:16:50 - Chelsea’s meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Follow Your Gut T-Shirt to support Terry Wahls MD Research Fund
• SAD to AIP in Six
• Nutrition with Chelsea
• Chelsea’s Instagram
• 1:1 Coaching Program: Make Peace with Food
• Free mini ebook: Break Free from Disordered Eating
• Nutrition-ish Podcast
• More from Anne
• More from Michelle

Today Anne and Michelle are talking about a much-requested topic: how to approach a healing diet when you have a history of disordered eating. They outline steps you can take to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally before, during, and after adapting a protocol.

Topics

• 1:03 - Michelle’s updates
• 1:59 - Anne’s updates
• 5:58 - What Michelle is loving
• 7:54 - Introduction to topic
• 10:50 - Making sure you’re in a good place
• 22:40 - Digestion and blood sugar
• 29:26 - Preparing mentally
• 38:28 - Starting slow
• 40:10 - Making AIP less restrictive
• 52:24 - Tracking your emotional responses
• 56:04 - When to reintroduce foods
• 58:03 - Troubleshooting
• 1:04:22 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Event in Dallas: Healing with Nutrition w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Gut w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Adrenals & Stress Response w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara
• Healthy Human
• More from Michelle
• More from Anne

Anne and Michelle dish on their tips for making healing diets and lifestyles last, from busting the myth about “being on AIP forever” to building community.

Topics

• 1:00 - Anne Marie’s updates
• 4:08 - Michelle’s updates
• 6:04 - What Anne is loving
• 8:55 - Intro to making a healing lifestyle sustainable
• 11:30 - How do I do this “forever”?
• 12:30 - Outlining your goals
• 17:55 - Planning ahead
• 26:55 - Make it FUN!
• 32:17 - Keep your doctor
• 38:50 - Building community
• 47:13 - Working on mindset
• 54:56 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Michelle's NYC Paleo Travel Recap
• Event in Dallas: Healing with Nutrition w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Gut w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Adrenals & Stress Response w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara
• Get to Work Book
• Meetup
• Sweet Potato Sliders
• Sweet Potato Tater Tots
• More from Anne
• More from Michelle

This week, Anne and Michelle are answering another round of listener questions. They address how to shift an unhealthy mindset, troubleshooting irregular periods and hormone imbalance, and the important subject of liver detoxification. 

Topics

• 1:00 - Michelle’s updates
• 7:05 - What Michelle is loving
• 10:20 - Healing your mindset
• 24:04 - Irregular periods and bioidentical hormone replacement
• 41:35 - Liver detox
• 50:30 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Gut Health Overhaul
• Unbound Wellness Nutrition Consulting
• Event in Dallas: Healing with Nutrition w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Gut w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Event in Dallas: Healing Your Adrenals & Stress Response w/ Michelle Hoover & Kara Halderman
• Ruthie Lindsey’s Story
• Meg the RHN
• Back in Control
• May Cause Miracles
• Danika Brysha
• The Power of Positive Thinking

Today Anne and Michelle are discussing safer approaches to hair, skin, and body care. They touch on common reasons for skin concerns, such as gut health issues and hormone imbalance, before sharing their favorite non-toxic products from shampoo to deodorant to face oils.

Topics

• 1:28 - Michelle’s updates
• 4:36 - Anne’s updates
• 6:34 - What Anne is loving
• 10:50 - Common reasons for skin concerns
• 14:45 - Hair care
• 25:04 - Body products
• 36:30 - Face care
• 1:00:35 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Gut Health Overhaul
• The Body Awareness Project
• Maple Holistics
• Mommypotamus homemade shaving cream
• Mother Dirt
• EWG Healthy Living App
• Primally Pure
• Beautycounter
• Kiss My Face sunscreen
• Cocokind
• Liz Wolfe Vitamin C Serum
• 100% Pure Vitamin C Serum
• More from Anne
• More from Michelle

This week Anne and Michelle are talking about a challenge familiar to most of us: how to manage a healing diet on a budget. They discuss some the biggest budget breakers, tips for saving money, and their favorite budget-friendly grocery stores.

Topics

• 2:49 - Michelle’s updates
• 8:36 - Anne’s updates
• 14:28 - What Michelle is loving
• 18:31 - Healing diet on a budget
• 20:40 - Budget breakers
• 31:25 - Budget saving tips
• 39:21 - Things that are cheaper to make at home
• 41:47 - Setting your non-negotiables
• 45:02 - Grocery stores
• 51:09 - Action items
• 59:11 - Meal of the week

Links we mentioned in the podcast:

• Weston A. Price Foundation
• Thrive Market
• Tropical Traditions
• More from Michelle
• More from Anne