What If It's NOT Depression? Podcast

Stacy and I met learning how to be Azarias Energy Healers with Cheryl Stelte (whom I’ve interviewed twice for my Vodcast) through the Star of Divine Light Institute (https://starofdivinelight.com/) 

This is an episode focusing on Autism and Down’s Syndrome. I wanted to interview Dr. Sarathy because she shows that functional medicine has a place with this population as well, but there are other specific things that also need to be addressed. Listen in!

Anna Marie Frank healed her own brain after years of depression and challenges with dyslexia and ADD, and turned her life around. She looked at her brain as not being much different from a computer and talks about “biological” downloads to your brain.

We discussed:

She is a doctor of Traditional Naturopathy, brain health professional, International Coaching Federation certified coach, and lover of life! She is also an author, speaker, employee wellness consultant, and mindset life-guide coach. Her mission is to end mental health stigmas and help all people upgrade their brains and biology through lifestyle choices while rewiring their neural pathways using holistic modalities.

She is the creator and owner of Happy Whole You. A brain health-focused wellness center located in Bakersfield, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Anna Marie is also the formulator of her own brain nutraceutical line which includes, "Happy You, Calm You, & Bright You." And she is the author of the self-improvement book, "Stop Bullying Yourself!" a guide to greater health, wealth, happiness, and success.

She offers a FREE copy of her book with any online orders and/or a free printable 52-week add-in method calendar.

Want to know more? Find her at www.happywholeyou.com or @HappyWholeYou on Instagram

It’s well known that breast cancer starts before the symptoms appear. Treating the symptoms of a disease is not going to help you recover your health. You need to get to the bottom of what caused your illness to begin your healing journey. Women are flooded with a host of emotions and depression is only one of them. Sometimes these emotions are never discussed. Unpacking the causes of both the cancer and the depression can bring you to recovery faster.

Dr. Carol Lourie is a dedicated practitioner with over three decades of clinical experience as a Naturopath, Acupuncturist, and Homeopath. She’s helped thousands of women recover their health and restore their life through her integrative and complementary protocols involving focused nutrition, targeted supplementation, lifestyle changes, and an empowered mindset.

Carol specializes in complex and chronic disease management, specifically focusing on the emotional aspect and metabolic factors of breast cancer. In addition to her clinical practice, she developed an online program where she’s able to bring her knowledge and caring to women throughout the world.

Her mission is to help women recover their health to restore their life. When the body and mind work together, healing is always possible.

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She wants you to have her FREE eBook to share with family and friends because we all know someone with breast cancer or a family history of breast cancer. It’s never too late to get started!

You can get in touch with Dr. Lourie through her website www.CarolLourie.com/ and Instagram @carollouriehealth.

My biggest peeve with the medical system is that patients with mental health symptoms are not given a complete medical work-up nor are their physical symptoms even discussed. Some people suffer for years before a curious provider takes the time to ask more questions to get to the root causes of what the person is experiencing. Some people are inappropriately given psychiatric medication as the sole solution for a very real whole-body experience. The DSM-5 clearly states that a psychiatric diagnosis should not be given if the symptoms can be explained by a medical cause, but that is dependent on the individual practitioner’s knowledge base!

There are certain emotions that take longer to recover from than other emotions. Fear and anger are well known and easily accessible. I’ve talked about shame and guilt as subconscious or even unconscious drivers of behaviors that interfere with attaining one’s goals. One emotion that Dr. Silber discusses in this interview is the feeling of Betrayal.

I am continuing my series of interviews with a focus on children and interviewed a holistic pediatrician.

Mental health issues have skyrocketed in the last couple of years - affecting all ages and all groups of people. Recently, pediatricians and primary care doctors asked Rhode Island legislators to declare a state of emergency to address a mental health crisis of our children due to the fall out of the pandemic.

Robin Ray Green is a master in the art of pediatric acupuncture and one of the world's leading experts in that field. She provides training for acupuncturists and licensed health professionals to be successful in helping children. As a Pediatric & Family Health Specialist at Detox Rejuvenation, she helps children address the root causes of their chronic illnesses when Western medicine isn’t enough.

Robert Rakowski, DC, CCN, DACBN, DIBAK is a Chiropractor, Board Certified Kinesiologist, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, Certified Biological Terrain Instructor, and the clinic director of the Natural Medicine Center in Houston Texas.  In addition to running a busy practice, Dr. Rakowski has lectured internationally for over 30 years on various topics related to Natural and Lifestyle Medicine, Happiness and Success.