Wellness Renaissance Podcast

“20 years growing up, 20 years messed up, 20 years locked up – but I never GAVE up!”

That never giving up allowed him to learn about how the brain is the organ of behavior and that we have to change the brain in order to change our behavior.

“unchecked by you, your brain could sabotage the very future you desire.”

He shares examples of what that means along with his intriguing and powerful journey that led him to being a Brain Coach and the work he does today.

Lyle works with individuals, as well as groups and organizations, to help identify core values and beliefs and to change neural landscape to make brain change.

He is contracted through the courts and prisons, working to help people who’s lives are in chaos move in a new direction. He continues to study and work to lower recidivism, and help people transition back into community.

CONTACT

What is an End of Life Doula? Who is it for and why would I want to utilize such a person?

GREAT questions and that is EXACTLY why you will LOVE listing to this, much more fun and upbeat episode than you might expect!

End of life Doula’s bring so much to the person who is dying and also those around them. We think of beautiful births and beautiful funerals. We don’t always think of the concept of a beautiful death and what that might mean or look like.

Shelby shares her stories and experiences to help us make sense of the cultural awkwardness that we might be much more accustom too.

RESOURCES and MENTIONS

Caring for the dying, a Doula Approach

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has multiple books and resources. Here is one.

Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty

VIDEOS

The Five Invitations

Not here by choice

CARD CONVERSATION GAME

To find an end of life Doula in your area or to connect with Shelby

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Feeling challenged by the onset of winter this year? Me too!

Our conversation travels far and wide about winter, wellness and the range of activities that might include making it more fun, social and accessible for everyone as a part of life. With her holistic mindset she encourages us to ask questions of ourselves to help us find the activities that will light us up and serve us, as well as giving us permission to allow our inner child to come forth and help us out… in winter and well beyond.

We talk about culture and happiness and ask questions around how fear and trust in our culture affect our ability to be as fit and well as we could be — Denmark! We need to share in your secrets!

Titanium healthcare is the vision and creation of Gray Miller. After experiencing great need for change, after his father had a series of preventable events during a heath crisis, he set forth on creating a different option.

Most of Gray’s history is NOT in health care. He saw a need and he used his skill sets to create an impressive company. The goal – “…To give people who are at a high risk of going into the hospital or going back into the hospital a private doctor… with purely one motivation – to do what it takes to help people stay home.” Titanium also takes away barriers to good health care, including helping people with transportation, lessening paperwork and lowering costs to make good health CARE available in their area.

I, Judy, am excited to hear about creations like this that are turning health care models and motivations on their heads! And best of all, creating models that are working! Working to change lives for the people they directly touch and also actively working to effect the bigger health care picture.

Bring it on… more people and projects like this, please!

Learn more about Titanium Healthcare or to connect with Gray

I know, I know… Food safety – not the most GLAMOROUS or sexy topic! HOWEVER!!

Many of us don’t spend the time in the kitchen each day that our grandmothers or even mothers did. For many people, the habits and muscle memory of cooking a complex, large meal isn’t second nature.

Lars Johnson, a fantastically experienced food safety guy FROM “Food Safety Guy”, checks in to give us tools and remind us of good, big meal prep practices. He talks turkey… pause for effect

“Amy defines an intuitive pathfinding role as one who shares information in a motivational way helping you through this information to build half of a bridge. Then she shares tools you can use to fully bridge the expanse of the situation.”

She helps those she works with open up to and know their own intuition – Life, relationships, parenting, next steps and insights.

Listen to great stories as we talk about how she came to trust herself in this work, insights about how to view and process our current world, communication, and raising empathetic, strong, tender, self aware kids. Her definition and how to cultivate self love, surrender and much more!

Mentioned in the episode

Contact Amy – Work with, on line or in person, events, classes, etc.

The private facebook group.

Event mentioned in Podcast:

Jan Tomaino of Orange Blossom Healing Arts talks about what it means to be a holistic nurse and her work with Essential oils training.

She shares insights about the terms holistic, integrative, alternative, complimentary – and what they mean.

Learn about some of the fantastic things going on around Duluth, moving us forward in integrative health and holistic care!

RESOURCES

Great North HNA

National Aroma Therapy Association

Alliance of international aroma therapists

Aroma Web

National Center for Complimentary and integrative health

EVENT MENTIONED

CONTACT FOR JAN

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Gene Wood of Life’s Pure Balance, a chemical engineer and creator of this unique fruit and vegetable wash shares about his product. He talks about his own health issues with digestion and allergies that helped him learn how important washing produce was. Everything he used, organic and not, left a taste. He set out to create a safe, non allergenic, residue free product that took the stuff off that we don’t want to take in. The result is an effective product that allows the taste of the food to really shine through for a great taste bud experience!

We talk about what is on our food, why is washing food, even if it is from our garden, or organic, is so important.

How this can lighten the toxin load we take on every day and support our health. Or, maybe you just want better tasting food?

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To find the product for purchase

Episode 50! Thank you for being a listener, sharing these conversation with me and the fantastic guests!

This one is a little different that our usual episode. We took some time out to talk about some things that come up in questions frequently. HEY… that’s why they call it Frequently Asked Questions! FANCY! I took a little time to hang out with Joel, the behind the scenes guy that supports making this all possible, and conversate on such things.

We talk about…

Things mentioned on the episode

Tori Amos All These Years: The Authorized Biography

Amanda Palmer’s TED talk

The art of asking.

Jen Quade, a board certified holistic nurse shares the work that she does with women using Mayan Abdominal Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care, Women’s QOYA Movement, Mind body medicine, vagina massage and more to awaken, power, spirit and joy living within each of us in her Revolutionary Holistic Women’s Health Care practice.

Listen to our conversation to gain an understanding of her work.

She walks us through a short visualization to help us understand, connect, experience our body, the pelvic floor or “the bowl”. The meditations that Jen walks through are at the 24:00 minute mark and the 30:00 mark.

Contact

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Jen’s resource page

Resources

PDF mentioned in podcast

Other resources, websites and therapies mentioned

Mayan abdominal therapy

Holistic Pelvic Care