I think we are all familiar with anxiety. Some more than others.

You walk around with a smile, or say "I'm ok" when inside you're feeling tension, stress and distress. But anxiety does not have to consume your life anymore!

My guest, Cary Ouellette, is an Emotional Wellness Practitioner and helps women with anxiety who have big goals but keep hitting walls. Cary helps you manifest your dreams and align with your highest wisdon through intuitive channeling so you can become the CEO of your mind.

Cary has experienced her own journey of healing from past trauma and is sharing with us her experience and methods to understand the roots of anxiety and the importance of allowing and healing.

You can reach out to Cary at:

www.caryouellette.com [email protected]

Your Host Kathleen (website is currently having a rebuild)

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In this enlightening conversation, Kathleen McDermott and Allie Theiss delve into the often-taboo subject of per-menopause and menopause, exploring the physical, emotional, and relational impacts on women. Allie shares her personal journey through menopause, highlighting the lack of support and understanding from the medical community.

They discuss common symptoms, the importance of communication with loved ones, and practical strategies for thriving during this life stage. The conversation emphasizes the need for self-care, movement, and nutrition, while encouraging women to seek help and support during this transformative time.

You are not going crazy and you are not alone. There is so much going on in your body during this time of life and there are solutions to help the journey feel less scary, frustrating and disruptive to your happiness.

Allie Theiss, MSc CSC ABS Certified Sexologist & Sex Coach
Menopause Integrative Wellness Coach
Ph.D Candidate Mind-Body Medicine

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Life can feel very heavy at times. Have you ever felt like you're carrying the weight of the world?

The thoughts we carry about life experiences, beliefs from others, stories we tell ourselves can be very difficult to understand and release. How can you begin your journey of healing pain and suffering? How can you come to understand your subconscious and the role it plays in your life? Listen in as my guest today shares how.

Dr. Tara Perry began private practice in Santa Monica, California in 1997. Her healing work has been featured on Lifetime Television, FOX Sports West, Esquire Magazine, LA Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, UCLA Bruin, CosMed Magazine, Travel Host Magazine, KRLA, KLAA, among others. 

After being personally trained by world-renowned Marisa Peer, Dr Tara received certification as an RTT (Rapid Transformational Therapy) Therapist.

Dr Tara is a Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine and has served as a professor at UCLA’s prestigious Arthur Ashe Center and California’s #1 acupuncture school Emperor’s College. Dr Tara completed over 800 hours of additional training in Orthopedics, Allergy Elimination, Nutrition, Meditation, and countless other emerging modalities.

Dr Tara has trained extensively with world leaders in health, wellness and personal development. These include world famous Marisa Peer, Dr Joe Dispenza, Susan Johnson, Dr. Alan Gaby, Dr. Devi Nambudripad, Dr. John Upledger, Tony Robbins, Master Choa Kok Sui, Master Stephen Co and many others.

She hosts the Next Level Healing Podcast and you can find it and more on her website. Please reach out for a consultation to see how your journey working with Dr. Tara might look.

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Dr. Tara on YourTube https://www.youtube.com/@drtaragraceperry

Your Host Kathleen at www.kmyourlifeyourway.com

We reach a time in life when we start feeling rumblings. We begin to question everything from our purpose to our sanity.

You're not crazy and you're not alone.

Midlife is full of changes and it can seem very overwhelming.The kids are moving on into their own life, your career may not feel like it once did, your body is expressing itself in ways you are just not understanding.

Peri-menopause is smack in the middle of all of this and it can heighten our stress, anxiety and fears. My guest today is sharing how you can find your way through this strange and sometimes overwhelming time and turn it into an amazing journey filled with purpose, strength and joy.

Louise Neil, Owner/CEO of Pivoting Point Career Solutions and co-host of the Empowered & Embodied Podcast is dedicated to helping midlife women navigate meaningful career trasitions with clarity, confidence and purpose.

Louise shares her knowledge and expertise of the changes we go through physically, emotionally, mentally duing peri-menopause. She talks about the "invisible science" of peri-menopause, the stigma of 'old', how this time can causeyou to hold yourself back in your career and relationships.

Louise can be reached for more information, including a consultation, at www.louiseneil.com

Her Podcast : Empowered & Embodied Podcast on Spotify, Apple

She is offering a free gift for you.Use the code YOURLIFE for free access https://zylvie.com/louiseneil/p/CoreValues

Your Host Kathleen McDermott

Reach me for a free consultation or information on Adaptive or Restorative Yoga at www.kmyourlifeyourway.com

Caring for a loved one with Dementia, Alzheimers, Parkinson's or other form of memory loss is filled with challenges, fears, joys and love. This is Part 3 in the series. Deb Compton Founder of The Purple Vine, LLC and author, is back to talk with us about the late stage of memory care.

Communication challenges, activities, recognizing non-verbal cues, handling eating along with, should your loved one remain at home or is facility care necessary, are all discussed in this episode.

Our wish is for you to know that you are not alone. There are resources, guidance and tools to help you navigate this difficult journey.

Please take steps to care for YOU, too. I know there are days when it must feel impossible but your health matters.

www.thepurplevine.com Deb Compton

www.kmyourlifeyourway.com Kathleen McDermott

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The journey of a Caregiver for a loved one with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or other form of memory loss, can feel quite lonely and scary.

In this series Debbie Compton, Owner/Founder of The Purple Vine, is sharing her own journey, expertise, knowledge and support through the 3 stages. In Part one we talked about the Diagnosis. Here in episode 2, we are talking about being right in the thick of caring for your loved one.

How do you manage the challenges for them and you? How do you still offer yourself care?

Debbie has written 12 books and has partnered with other authors to bring you much needed and wanted advice to navigate this journey. See her website info below.

For information on how you can access tools, resources, methods to reduce your stress and bring yourself back to calm and a sense of control anywhere, anytime reach out to me at:

[email protected]

www.kmyourlifeyourway.com

The journey of being a Caregiver for a Loved One with Dementia can feel very lonely. It comes with many emotions, love, guilt and exhaustion.

You never know what it is like until you are actually wearing the shoes of a Caregiver. What are the questions, answers, solutions, tips and resources to keeping some balance, peace, joy and laughter on this journey that is filled with fear?

Deb Compton, Owner/Founder of The Purple Vine, LLC, is with us sharing her expertise, advise and personal experience being a 3x Caregiver to her loved ones.

This is Part 1 in a series of 3 episodes. We did an original episode for the holidays that also has great information for any time there is a gathering of family and friends.

www.thepurplevine.com Reach out to Deb for a consultation, resources and support.

Have you or do you feel overloaded and overwhelmed as if you're stuck in the spin cycle?

Every experience we have throughout our life, bits and pieces are stored in our subconscious. We have old beliefs no longer serving us well, old hurts, stress, fesrs about life.

Marnel Hesterman is an Emotional Wellness Specialist, Tapping Practitioner and Certified Life Coach.

She share with us here in this episode, how Tapping might be your missing link to relieving your stress and getting you out of the spin cycle of life.

She is the founder of InciteInspirations and you can gather more information at inciteinspirations.com You can sign up for her INCITES with conten for continued emotional health and wellness.

You can find Marnel on Facebook.

Are you a Caregiver of a loved one with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s or another cause of memory loss?  If you are, or think it could be in your future, listen in as Debbie Compton owner and The Purple VIne offering Caregiver support, resources & encouragement, shares her journey and how you can still find joys along the way.

This is the prelude and there will be 3 more episodes coming. This episode offers tips to make the holiday season less stressful and a better experience for you and your loved one.  

The journey of being a Caregiver can feel very lonely at times but it doesn’t mean you must put your own health, mental, emotional and spiritual, at risk.  Debbie has walked this path with more than one of her loved ones and she is a bright light for others who don’t necessarily see a light at the end of the tunnel.

After the show you can find Debbie at www.thepurplevine.com

Your Host: Kathleen McDermott - Please subscribe to the podcast and the KM Your Life Your Way Blog.

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When life feels like it is coming at you like a charging locomotive what do you do? How do you handle the curves that life throws at you. I had to curb my expectations, accept and surrender to what was out of my control. I expected one thing and the Universe said "hold my beer".

In this solo episode I share my thoughts on 2024 and how we can be curious, embrace possibilities and to never say never.

Questions on how you can create your go to kit of tools, methods and techniques for reducing stress, regulating your nervous system to return yourself to a state of calm and sense of control, email me at [email protected]

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