WISH Well Podcast: Women's Integrative Summit on Health & Wellness

Dr. Ariana Witkin is a pediatrician and postpartum coach who shares on this week's episode about what a lifeboat means. She shares how her experience as a new mom compelled her to become a postpartum coach. She talks about different strategies she utilizes for her postpartum clients and the different types of postpartum education she offers. Her advice she gives to new moms or expecting moms is don't forget your lifeboat - create your postpartum plan and to trust yourself.

Follow Dr. Ariana Witkin on Instagram @arianawitkinmd and www.arianawitkin.com

Welcome to this week's episode on stress management! What an important topic especially in the time of COVID-19 when we are all feeling so incredibly stressed in different ways. In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Bindiya Gandhi about chronic stress management. She says she's always known that she wanted to practice more than a traditional medicine practice. She became yoga and Reiki certified in medical school and started learning about integrative medicine while in medical school. After completion of her family practice residency, she completed her integrative medicine and functional medicine fellowships.

During residency, she talks about dealing with stress and the ability to heal herself through her knowledge of integrative and functional medicine. She discusses how chronic stress can be a gateway to other chronic medical conditions, notably decreasing your immune system. How do we react to stress in a positive way? How do we manifest stress in our lives?

Make sure you tune in and listen to get some tips!

Find out more about Dr. Bindiya Gandhi on Instagram @DrBindiyaMD website drbindiyamd.com mindbodygreen.com cleanplatesacademy.com

Welcome to this week's episode where I chat with Dr. Mously Le Blanc otherwise known as Dr. Mo! She shares her story of burnout as a physician as the driving force for her to look into becoming a relationship coach. She calls the way she practices as a "lifestyle architect" - finding all the pieces of the puzzle for each person. She also discusses what energy medicine is and how to utilize that to complement traditional medicine. She discusses her shift to aspects of complementary medicine as a means of practicing self love and acceptance. She says the power of self love reflects our relationship with ourselves, our body, our partners, and our money. Self love is the foundation of all healing. Acceptance is having compassion for yourself despite the imperfections, which she says is difficult for high achieving women.

Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR)

Find out more information about Dr. Mo's book at UnleashTheHealingWithin.com

Connect on Facebook Mously Le Blanc Twitter @leblanc_mo IG @doctor_mo_leblanc

Destigmatization with Dr. Jessica Lubahn of ONDRwear

In this week's episode I chat with Dr. Jessica Lubahn, a urologist and founder of the company ONDRwear. Hear how she decided to embark on this journey and what made her decide to start this company. She says that she witnessed not only the daily frustrations and embarrassment that arose from urinary leakage (urinary incontinence) in both men and women, but also the limitations and potential side effects of more invasive treatment.

The word that she chose was "destigmatization" because she wants to bring awareness about just how common this issue is with the hopes of having open conversations without the shame or stigma that sometimes comes with living with incontinence.

Find out more about ONDRwear at www.ondrwear.com and on Instagram @ondrwear

In this week's episode, I chat with Dr. Jessie Benson and her topic, Authenticity.

She shares her journey through clinical medicine and her decision to step away and pursue her passions. She is now a certified life coach, mindfulness teacher, professional artist, and most recently professional baker with her bakery Buffalo Mountain Bakery. Her advice is to "live true to yourself".

Life Coaching: jessiebenson.com

Art: www.jessiebensonfineart.com

Bakery: www.buffalomountainbakery.com

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Dr. Kara Wada is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Associate Fellowship Program Director of Allergy/Immunology at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency and Allergy/Immunology Fellowship at the Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. After having completed additional fellowship training in medical education, she is passionate about building meaningful connection and therapeutic relationships with her patients and inspiring future physicians to do the same. She seeks to empower her patients and clients with a naturally-minded and scientifically-grounded approach to care. She speaks nationally on topics including medical education, allergic and immunologic conditions. Outside of her work, she is an autoimmune patient, a food allergy mom of 2 spunky daughters, and wife to another Dr. Wada.

Find more information at www.crunchyallergist.com and follow her @crunchyallergist on IG and Facebook.

Kim Thai is a writer, Emmy-award winning producer and the founder of GaneshSpace, a community organization dedicated to pursuing equity through mindfulness.

Find out more info at:

Instagram @kthai6 / thekimthai.com /

Instagram @ganeshspace / ganeshspace.com

Kim's article on Being Asian American During Trump's 'China Virus': bit.ly/3oMEkry

Ingrid Yang, MD, JD, E-RYT-500*, C-IAYT** is a board-certified physician hospitalist in San Diego, CA who has been teaching yoga for over 21 years. She is also the author of two books: Hatha Yoga Asanas and Adaptive Yoga. She is an incredibly creative and inspiring yoga teacher, who has made it her purpose to incorporate medicine into yoga, and yoga into medicine. Dr. Yang leads classes, trainings, and workshops all over the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia. She is a certified yoga therapist under the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and a Reiki master of the Usui tradition. In her past lives, Ingrid was an intellectual property attorney, founder and owner of Blue Point Yoga Center, and a jazz singer in Australia. When she is not doctor-ing or yoga-ing, Ingrid loves to surf at sunset, travel the world, and play on the beach with her dogs Rusty and Juno. Find out more at www.ingridyang.com or instagram.com/ingridyangyogamd

*E-RYT500 = experienced registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and the 500 level (highest level)

**C-IAYT = Certified with International Association of Yoga Therapists (a 2000 hour training requirement)

In this week's episode I recap the first season of the podcast. What a year this has been for us all. I'm grateful for all the little positives that have come out of this year and am looking forward to the new year. Thank you all for coming along and listening. I'm excited for Season 2 which is just around the corner! In this next season we will shift gears and discuss specific women's health & wellness topics! Look forward to yoga, coaching, postpartum issues, stress management and many many more! Also a new logo reveal coming soon!

Ali Novitsky, MD specializes in Life Coaching for Professional Women, including fellow female physicians. She is a Certified Life and Weight Loss Coach, Board Certified Pediatrician, Board Certified Neonatologist, Blogger, International Speaker, and Host of the Podcast, “Life Coaching for Women Physicians.” Ali has a membership program for women physicians called Life Coaching Society where she focuses mind, body, and relationship fitness.

Find out more info about Dr. Novitsky:

Website: www.lifecoachingforwomenphysicians.com

Facebook group for women physicians: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LCWPwithAliNovitskyMD/

Instagram: alinovitskymd

Twitter: ARemakus

Linkedin: Alexandra Novitsky MD