While chasing your goals, do you feel at your best or do you feel kind of lousy? In order to work hard and succeed, you don’t need to feel stressed, exhausted, hangry, depleted, and starved all the time!  I just officially finished my Nutritional Therapy Practitioner certification.  As an NTP, I work with clients in 5 main areas: stress response management, sleep quality and quantity, blood sugar regulation, effective digestion, and nutrient-dense whole food in order to help them feel more calm, rested, steady, energetic, and well-fed so that they can better accomplish all of their professional and family goals. Sound nice?  Let’s talk about it. Learn more at www.whatsworthwhile.net.

Do we need to feel past trauma to heal, or can we focus on positive signals instead to enable improvement?  Longtime therapist and founder of Organic Intelligence, Steven Hoskinson contends that a safer and gentler way to help our brains heal from past trauma is to look for and focus upon positive signals perceived in the environment as the basis for moving forward.  Steve and Ramsey discuss several critical concepts including Orientation (a type of Mindfulness), the brain’s Prediction (setting off processes based on expectations) and Somatic Therapy (based on physical sensations). This episode is a great explainer of a different approach to healing Mind, Body and Spirit.  Learn more at www.organicintelligence.org.

What does the psychedelic plant medicine Ayahuasca do, and why do people seek it out? Used for hundreds of years in Peru in traditional ceremonies, Ayahuasca creates an alternative mental state, and users report profound mental and physical impacts, often including significant improvements.  Michael Tierno is a transformational guide and relationship coach specializing in deep emotional healing and conscious personal growth, and specializes in providing Ayahuasca experiences to clients through well-established practitioners in Peru.  Ramsey had basically no prior knowledge, opinion, or experience with Ayahuasca before speaking with Michael, and this episode is not an endorsement nor suggestion of the practice.  Rather, it is an open-minded, honest, and curious exploration of what Ayahuasca does, why people choose to have the experience, and how it changes them as a result.  If you have heard about plant medicine, but don’t know the details, then this episode will be a great way to glimpse what this South American mystery is all about.  Learn more at https://www.michaeltiernoguide.com/.

What are the unspoken beliefs about yourself, which govern your actions, and are they beneficial?  We all have them … those echoes of voices from past experiences and influential people telling us what to do, and more often, what NOT to do.  They keep us out of trouble, keep us in line, but also hold us back from exploring, growing, or expanding beyond our own imagined limitations.  Do you know what rules you live by? Have you evaluated them recently? Let’s take a few minutes and do just that.

What can a sample of your hair tell you about the minerals and heavy metals in your body? HTMA is Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, and this protocol is a non-invasive, cost-effective way for people to learn about potential mineral deficiencies and heavy metal burdens that their bodies may have.  Diane Yoder is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who is trained and experienced in facilitating and interpreting the results of HTMA for her clients.  Ramsey and Diane discuss the details of HTMA, including how it’s done, how it compares to bloodwork, and what to do if we learn bad news from the analysis.  So if you are concerned that you or your family members may be missing critical minerals, or that you may be harboring heavy metals, which you are better off without, this is an excellent episode for you.  Learn more at https://northwestnatural.health. 

How do we get exposed to Heavy Metals, how do we know, and how can we more effectively detox? Our bodies are designed to handle removing metals that it does not use, but large or prolonged exposures can be problematic, especially if our bodies are under-nourished, stressed out or sleep deprived.  Take a few minutes to learn what foods to eat to re-supply your body with what it needs to flush out the toxins.

How can mindset shifts like being grateful change our perception of our condition and relieve physical symptoms? As a cardiologist who had worked more than 2,000 straight days, Dr. Julius Torelli had a massive heart attack.  But he chose to notice and appreciate the people, technologies, and medicines that could save his life. Today, Dr. Torelli helps people understand that gratefulness puts the body into the right state for healing.  Many physical symptoms do not have clear and explainable physical causes, and these are especially good candidates for addressing through mindset.  If you may be in need of an attitude adjustment, listen in, and consider joining Dr. Torelli’s pilot program launch this Fall.  Learn more at www.gratefullywell.com.

If Gratefulness is good feelings about the past, what are the alternatives, and why is Gratefulness so great? Many say that keeping a grateful state of mind is a powerful way to give our bodies a mindset to heal.  But what is up with the alternatives? What does it look and feel like to have bad feelings about the past or future, and what impacts do those have?  And what about having a positive outlook about the future? Does that help too? We can’t exactly control what happens to us, but we can choose how we try to feel about it.  Spend a few minutes pondering Gratefulness and the alternative mindset options and see what you think.

What can people do to support healthy cells and starve cancer cells? Recent research shows that healthy mitochondria not only provide energy, but also shut cells down when they malfunction, including cancer cells.  Further, cancer cells rely heavily on sugar fermentation instead of mitochondrial metabolism for energy.  Merlin Marquard learned this and more when he put his molecular biotech training to use for research, following his father’s cancer diagnosis. Merlin’s dad lives on today (praise God) based on a host of lifestyle and eating changes based on these principles.  Now Merlin and his brother Cedric have founded a website and online community to educate others about the workings of cancer, what simple practices have great effect in cancer recovery, and how people can support each other.  This episode delves deep into the biochemistry science of health and cancer, but also has a light-hearted magic as Merlin and Ramsey discuss the hope and promise of this family tale.  Learn more at www.marchward.com.

What is Anxiety really, and how can we resolve it physically and in our thoughts? Anxiety is like a dark, ominous cloud over our mind, suspecting and suggesting that things will likely go horribly wrong somehow.  Why are we all so anxious these days?  Maybe because things seem so unpredictable, with one thing coming right after the next.  And maybe because we can hardly tell what’s real, and we often don’t feel like we can speak unpopular truths.  But we don’t need to just suffer through anxiety.  There are significant actions we can take physically to soothe our bodies and mentally to reset our minds.  Listen in for practical strategies to resolve your anxiety.  Learn more at www.whatsworthwhile.net.