Julie spends some time with athlete, coach and founder of Spewak Training and Racing, Mark Spewak. Mark is a fellow St. Louisan who recently had heart surgery to repair a PFO (patent foramen ovale), a hole in his heart. in 2025, Mark had two strokes and years prior had a CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) leak.

Despite these health conditions, Mark has the relentless attitude of a champion and maintains hope in an awe-inspiring way.

Here is a link to his training site (https://spewaktraining.com) and a bit more about Mark (https://spewaktraining.com/mark)

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Join us in a conversation with Dr. David Clarke, a retired Doctor of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, who found patients with normal labs and diagnostics never were able to resolve their chronic conditions. 

Through a series of fortunate events, he discovered a framework to help these patients quickly overcome many chronic issues that "modern" medicine lacked to resolve. Through many hours of client work, he believes that Neuroplastic recovery IS possible with the right partners, tools and techniques. 

Please listen, comment, like and share our work. 

Dr. Clarke's first book is They Can't Find Anything Wrong!

www.Symptomatic.me for the non-profit Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms

www.CurableHealth.com for the app Curable

https://www.trynervana.com for the app Nervana

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Julie and JoJo spend some time with Thad Frye, a licensed clinical social worker and brain spotting consultant who specializes in using brain spotting in his practice. In this episode, Thad describes how brain spotting works, who it might benefit and how it might help individuals overcome performance blocks and other issues in their personal and professional lives. 

We talk about the yips, emdr, somatic experiencing and many other things in this session. 

Learn more about Brain Spotting https://brainspotting.com/

Get in touch with Thad Frye (https://www.performancebrainspotting.com/)

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Julie sits down with Dr. William Deihl from Doc Hypnosis to discuss and dispel myths about hypnosis. Hypnosis can be used as a neuroplastic tool to help heal a variety of conditions from anxiety, pain, trauma and performance blocks - among many other things. What we discuss is a lot about how the mind is intrinsically connected to how the body operates. It all works together to function AND in healing. Please like, comment and share!

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Distinguished athlete Chris Phelan talks openly about his dystonia story and diagnosis. Chris has been affected for more than 10 years and has had multiple rounds of botox and dbs (deep brain stimulation). While Chris is not "cured" of dystonia, he has never given up hope. He's written two books about his story and would rather shake, rattle and roll than give up.

My Ride and Run with Dystonia is his first book and his second will be published in the next few weeks. 

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

This episode takes a different twist as I talk with Lilibet Kyte who, at age 36, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). We talk about treatments, her diagnosis, her team and a host of other things in this insightful episode. Key message - You cannot judge a book by it's cover. 

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Links:

Websites:

www.lilibetsnellings.com

www.lilibetsnellingskytefoundation.com

Instagram

@leggingitwithlilibet 

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Casandra Oldham has had success in her running career that was never intended to be a running career! She shares her knowledge of neurodiverse brains and how thinking outside of the dystonia "box" might be helping through nutrition, functional medicine, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and other modalities. 

Autism Knowledge Gateway https://www.autismkg.org/

TLI Foundation https://www.thoughtfoundation.org/about

HBOT - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11097100/ and https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8465921/

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The information shared in this podcast is not intended to diagnose. recommend nor treat medical conditions. We are not licensed medical professionals and do not take the place of your team of medical professionals.

You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Julie, JoJo and special guest host Karrie Hamstra-Wright chat with wife, mother, NBC Track and Field Broadcaster, author, World T&F Silver medalist and 2-Time Olympian Kara Goucher. 

Kara shares her dystonia history, diagnosis, celebrations, tendencies to compartmentalize and other struggles in this real, heart-felt cast. 

You can find more about Kara here and order her book, The Longest Race, here. If you really want to geek out, listen to her podcast with Des Linden, Nobody Asked Us, on your favorite platform. Here is a link to the cast on YouTube.

Some products we mentioned:

Lever system

Lightspeed Lift

Ketone IQ

KT Tape

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

Julie sits down with Megan Cohea, a physical therapist living on the East Coast. Megan has Runner's Dystonia and shares her journey, symptoms and recommendations in this conversation. Apologies for the audio issues at the beginning of the recording. 

Here is a link to the TENS unit Megan uses.

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You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching) 

JoJo and Julie sit down with Karrie Hamstra-Wright, Clinical Professor and Co-Director of the Applied Sports Psychology and Injury Research and Education (ASPIRE) Lab in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago. Like many of us interested in these podcasts on the topic of dystonia, Karrie also has this condition. For those interested in the lab's work, you  can participate in the community service program - Resilient Athlete Program (RAP) - which provides sports psychology sessions with members of the lab.

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The information shared in this podcast is not intended to diagnose. recommend nor treat medical conditions. We are not licensed medical professionals and do not take the place of your team of medical professionals.

You can find me here: Julie Bergfeld - [email protected] and juliebergfeld.com (@juliebergfeldcoaching)