In this episode, we are thrilled to have Chelsea, a graduate of our Holistic Anxiety Fix Program, sharing her transformative journey of healing anxiety.
Chelsea opens up about her struggles, which began around mid-2020, and how these challenges deeply affected her mental health. She experienced severe symptoms such as stress intolerance, sensitivity to stimuli, shortness of breath, hot flashes, ruminating thoughts, and a pervasive sense of negativity. Despite knowing that life wasn't as bad as her mind and body were telling her, Chelsea found herself feeling stuck and overwhelmed.
During the program, Chelsea undertook various tests and practices that significantly contributed to her recovery. These included:
Listen to Chelsea's inspiring story, exploring the highs and lows of her journey, and learn how holistic methods can offer profound healing for anxiety. Discover how Chelsea turned her life around and how you can too, with the right guidance and support from the Holistic Anxiety Fix Program.
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In this episode of the Holistic Anxiety Fix podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gillian Simpson, the founder of For The Love Of Ice. Gillian, often referred to as the "Ice Queen," shared her deeply personal journey with cold plunges, which started as a way to combat postpartum depression. Her story highlights how this practice not only transformed her mental health but also reignited her passion for life and led to the creation of her wellness studio.
We dove into the science behind cold exposure, discussing how it tones the vagus nerve, increases dopamine production, and shifts the body from a fight-or-flight state to a rest-and-digest state. Gillian emphasized the importance of proper guidance and the transformative power of co-regulation during these sessions.
For anyone curious about the physical and emotional benefits of cold plunging, this episode is packed with insights and practical advice. Gillian’s experience underscores the potential of this practice to help manage anxiety, build resilience, and promote overall well-being.
Tune in to hear more about Gillian’s inspiring story and learn how you can incorporate cold plunges into your own life for better mental and physical health.
Learn more about cold plunges by visiting Gillian's website here: https://www.fortheloveofice.com/
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In women, hormone imbalance and its popular go-to treatment, hormonal birth control are associated with anxiety more often than not.
Underlying causes for hormone imbalance are usually poor diet, poor absorption of fats from the diet, stress, gut infections, toxic buildups, mold toxicity, and heavy metal toxicity to name a few. But the real problem starts when you try to fix hormone imbalance with hormone birth control pills instead of addressing the reason why your hormones are out of order in the first place.
These pills contain synthetic estrogens and progesterone-like chemicals called progestins. The synthetic estrogens prevent your body to make natural estrogens. The progestins inhibit LH (Luteinizing Hormone) thus blocking the formation of ovum and progesterone in the body. In the absence of natural progesterone, the body undergoes estrogen dominance and copper toxicity that can result in anxiety.
Tune in to know more how you can save yourself from havoc that oral contraceptives might play on your health.
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In this episode, we dive into a topic affecting millions of women worldwide: anxiety and sleep. If you've ever felt like your world is falling apart after a few sleepless nights, you're not alone.
We discuss:
- Connection Between Anxiety & Sleep: We'll explore how anxiety can disrupt sleep and how poor sleep can exacerbate anxiety.
- Biological Insights: Learn about the roles of cortisol and melatonin in your sleep-wake cycle and how imbalances can impact your rest.
- Practical Strategies: Discover actionable tips to improve your sleep, including managing light exposure, balancing blood sugar, and optimizing your diet.
- Root Causes: Understand why it's crucial to address the underlying issues causing sleep disturbances rather than just treating the symptoms.
- Personal Journey: I’ll share my own struggle with sleep and anxiety and how I found solutions through functional medicine.
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Remember: Knowledge is power, and understanding the root causes of your anxiety and sleep issues is key to lasting solutions. Tune in, subscribe, and share if you find this helpful. Together, we can heal naturally and reclaim our love for life.
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Autumn is one of my ongoing clients whose healing journey is worth sharing. Her anxiety and struggle to keep up with the normal routine of life are mostly attributable to the latent Lyme infection that was swept under the rug by the medical system for 16 straight years.
She was told that it was all in her mind and doctors kept ignoring her intuition of having been infected with Lyme disease until it was too late. The infection had caused too many health complications throughout her body. It wasn’t until the last year when her anxiety went over the roof that she decided to take full charge of her health.
When she met me we did several tests including hair tests, blood work, and GI maps, and found out there were multiple underlying reasons for her disease. Years of untreated Lyme disease had wreaked havoc on her vital systems. At a time, she was contending with gut issues, mold exposure, suppressed immune systems, and medical PTSD.
Her journey signifies that there is rarely a single root cause of anxiety in any given case and we have to dig deep to find out all the layers and interconnections. Although she is back on track to reclaim her life, healing is an ongoing process and consistency is the key. Tune in to listen to her experience in her own words!
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In this episode, we dive deep into how a specific functional medicine test called DUTCH test can help to restore hormonal balance. I sit down with a hormone health practitioner - Hannah and we chat about how doing the DUTCH has allowed her to dive even deeper into rebalancing her hormones in a way she wasn't able to with general natural strategies alone.
Ever since Hannah hit puberty she had painful periods. Like most women, she went on birth control on and off for almost a decade. At the age of 25, by the end of her birth control journey, she had acne all over her jawline, painful breasts for like a week, insomnia 3 days before her periods, and heavy periods. It wasn’t until she started to learn about holistic nutrition, that she realized how stress can play a huge role in hormonal imbalance. Amazingly, she resolved her symptoms in just 4-6 weeks, through holistic strategies.
But a year ago, she started experiencing breast tenderness around ovulation time and increased occurrence of respiratory infections. She took the DUTCH Test to look into what was going into her body. The results showed that she had slight estrogen dominance, low testosterone, and low cortisol levels. These insights guided her toward making dietary and lifestyle changes to get rid of the symptoms she was having and fix the underlying hormonal imbalance.
Tune in to completely understand the DUTCH test and its significance for healing your hormonal imbalance.
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In this episode we talk about a topic that is missed by MOST practitioners as a sneaky root cause of anxiety - mold! Part of the reason it is so often missed is that is is not recognized by medical system as a major source of serious health problems, making it more difficult to detect. You can have 'perfect' bloodwork and still have mold illness.
Mycotoxins can enter our body through inhalation, ingestion or skin contact. Once in the body, they trigger inflammatory responses and prolonged inflammation can lead to many serious health issues such as depression, anxiety, heart palpations, panic attacks, OCD, liver damage, sleep disturbances, peripheral neuropathy, movement disorders, and much more.
In this episode I also share more about my own journey through mold illness and key steps in identifying it and treating it. The right information will help you to screen and test for mold, to properly remediate it and to detox it at the cellular level to reclaim your health.
Tune in and listen to everything you should know about mold illness!
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Welcome to The Holistic Anxiety Fix Podcast! In this episode I talk with Sarah about her amazing transformation through her experience in Holistic Anxiety Fix Program.
Sarah was struggling with postpartum anxiety for two years before she discovered me through my facebook group. She was frustrated, unable to sleep, and really on the edge. She was worried about her work and her role as a mother, as well as her children's health.
Sarah's willingness to take a leap and join the program is what ultimately led her out a potential lifetime of the chaos and struggle.
Together we worked to find the underlying cause of her symptoms. It turned out her house was full of alarmingly high levels of mold. She also scored really high in Uranium on HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis), which led to the discovery of high Radon level in her house. To reclaim her health, she had to move out of the house.
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As you will learn by listening to this story, when you are looking for answers, working with the right professionals is key. Tune in and listen to her wonderful story!
This podcast episode is going to change your perspective about anxiety. In this episode, I interview Dr. Jared Seigler who is a functional neurologist. He talks at length about the neurological basis of anxiety and how he uses different healing techniques to cure anxiety.
According to functional neurology, anxiety is one of the primitive responses of our brain. As a result of traumatic brain injury, the brain goes into a reflexive state. When you are anxious, your brain is actually looking out for you. Emotional stress, physical stress, mold and parasites infestation, gut infections, autoimmune disorders, and head injury all can trigger the reflexive part of the brain, brainstem.
Our brainstem controls our basic reflexes that we can’t consciously control while frontal cortex is responsible for our conscious activities. It turns out our brainstem is often stronger than our cortex, which is why we are sometime unable to control anxiety by conscious thought process. Over time, the learned behavioral reflexes get hardwired in our brain and essentially control us. To heal the brain from toxic patterns, functional neurologists use different activation techniques that stimulate selective parts of the brain. Tune in to know more about this game changing approach to healing anxiety and its benefits to restore your mental health!
To find out more about Dr. Jared, visit his website here: https://drjaredseigler.com/
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/7674Axv19QY
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In this episode, I briefly explain the reasons and ways to calm one of the most alarming symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks: heart palpitations.
Heart palpitations can be triggered by a variety of stimuli such as light, traffic, driving, physical exercise, etc. They are often accompanied by panic attacks that resemble a heart attack. But here is the thing - having palpitations due to anxiety doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with your heart medically. There are many non-medical causes of heart palpitations that are not addressed by the conventional medical system. In this episode, I go through many common, yet not well known physiological root causes of heart palpitations. Tune in to learn what they are now how you can address them holistically!
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In this episode, my guest is Roxy from Wanderess. She is an expert in a unique technique of energy healing called Biofield Tuning.
Biofield Tuning is a method that uses different frequency forks on and off the body in the energy field of a person to tune and recalibrate his/her energy. It removes the stuck energy in the body and brings resonance into your frequency.
We are energy beings and our body has a measurable energy field. This energy field also called aura or magnetic field extends 6 feet out both left and right off of our body and 3 feet above and below our body. Biofield stores trauma, memories, and emotions and this sometimes relates to anxiety. In this technique, tuning forks of different frequencies are used so that the energies of past bad experiences stored in the body are released. In this way, anxiety related to those memories and emotions can be cured. Tune in to find out more about this innovative healing method!
Visit Roxy Rusek's website here: https://www.wanderess.me/
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This episode tells the success story of a graduate of my Holistic Anxiety Fix program, Sarah Goodsen, who works in the medical field. Her journey and experiences in healing her own anxiety really illustrate the limitations of the conventional medical system.
She experienced awful episodes of anxiety after she went through a traumatic medical event. She would have panic attacks all the time and stopped eating, resulting in the loss of 30 pounds of weight. She also went to therapy and to different doctors but there was no respite to her symptoms. She also saw some functional wellness practitioners but was not satisfied with the pace of their healing methods. Her inquisitive nature and desire to know the answers led her to my program.
Working together, when we dug a little deeper we found out that she had mineral imbalances, hormonal issues, and metal toxicities. We focused on optimal levels of hormones and minerals and worked to restore optimal functioning of her physiological systems. During this period, she went from severe clinical anxiety to no anxiety.
Tune in and listen to her valuable insights as both a medical practitioner and a client in my program!
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In this episode, we explore a story of healing anxiety when the solution is not straightforward. I meet with Jennifer, and we talk about the many different aspects of her tumultuous healing journey. Her story depicts that healing from anxiety is not always a linear process but success can still happen!
For years, she would have waves of on and off anxiety. In 2022 she found herself really struggling when back to back surgeries triggered panic attacks and set her life into complete disarray. The situation felt hopeless for her as she went from one physician to another only to find they had no solution to her debilitating symptoms. It was during her search for answers that she discovered The Holistic Anxiety Fix.
In the program, she went through comprehensive testing to get to the root causes of her awful symptoms. Her root causes required deeper support beyond just diet and minerals.
Jennifer's story is a true depiction of how anxiety can be multilayered and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. What you need is determination and a resourceful person to help you figure out what’s causing your anxiety. Tune in and listen to this beautiful story of courage and perseverance.
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In this episode, I interview Diane Liska and explore the benefits of somatic work in healing anxiety. Diane is a registered psychotherapist and certified yoga teacher. She’s currently in her advanced year of completing her Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Certification and specializes in serving individuals healing from complex developmental and sexual trauma from a somatic and attachment focused lens.
In our conversation, we explore how somatic therapy can be a totally different lens for healing anxiety. She explains how somatic therapy can help enhance the mind’s connection with the body. It’s considered a bottom-up process where the work is with the body; the nervous system and the tissues - to help them have a different experience. This way, the brain starts to interpret experiences differently and we can rewire our nervous system and change the mind and body patterns associated with anxiety.
In this mind-blowing discussion, we reviewed various aspects of somatic therapy and how they can help women heal anxiety. Tune in to listen to this intriguing, dynamic, and illuminating conversation! Perhaps this is a missing link for you!
Visit Diane Liska's website here: https://www.dianeliska.com/
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Join me for this solo episode where I dive deep into the concept of adrenal health and its connection to your anxiety. "Adrenal fatigue" is a term commonly used by practitioners and clients alike to capture symptoms resulting from poor functioning adrenal glands. Many people use this term to explain why they are so tired, or anxious, or they have sleep issues and body aches.
The question is whether adrenal fatigue is really causing your anxiety and if so, how can it be corrected?
The simple answer is that adrenals don’t work independently and their decreased function can only be addressed by implementing holistic measures and treating underlying issues. Tune in to find out the general strategies for getting to the root causes, treatment, and management of adrenal issues.
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This is the inspiring story of Jessica Sharp who was able to get rid of anxiety through the Holistic Anxiety Fix program. Before she discovered me through a Facebook ad, she had suffered from debilitating anxiety for 15 years. She had panic attacks and suffered from anxiety. She also had anxiety about her physical symptoms, which often sent her into loops. Jessica was determined to heal. She did not accept the lack of solutions offered through conventional medication and was convinced that there was more to her anxiety than merely a mental illness that she had to learn to live with. My message of getting to the root cause really resonated with her, and she enrolled in the program. During this interview, she shared that I was her last hope. Across this 12-week support program, we worked on various aspects contributing to her recovery such as mindset reset, breath work, addressing gut issues, and correcting mineral imbalances. This multi-step program gradually restored her vitality and now she feels grateful that she made this choice despite her initial hesitation. Tune in and listen to what she has to say about her journey!
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In this episode, I talk with Sarah Conover who started out as a Vestibular Physical Therapist (Dizziness Expert) and later on delved into the correlation between dizziness and anxiety. She now works as a coach and a Vestibular Therapist. She beautifully explains the role of the inner ear and its interconnections with other body parts and functions, different types of dizziness, the crossover of dizziness and anxiety, and her way of working with dizziness patients. Dizziness can be of many different forms, of which the chronic dizziness related to the inner ear is more likely to develop anxiety in patients. Sometimes it’s hard for women to figure out whether dizziness is causing the anxiety or it’s the other way around. This is exactly what this podcast episode is about! Tune in and listen to the pearls of wisdom she shared with us.
Contact Sarah at sarahpt@dizzycoach.com or www.dizzycoach.com
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This episode covers all major aspects of thyroid issues and their connection with mental health. The thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone that regulates a wide range of body functions and affects almost every cell of the body. When it’s not functioning properly as in hypo- or hyperthyroidism, a vast array of disruptions occurs in the body that may also include a higher level of stress and poor mental health.
Conventional medicine fails to address the root causes of thyroid disorders and you might be surprised to learn that medications don’t actually solve the issues. Functional medicine practitioners like myself focus on supporting women to achieve the optimal ranges of hormones like thyroid hormones and address the root causes of suboptimal levels. This way, we can correct thyroid issues before they turn into major diseases. Tune in to fully understand the role of the thyroid gland, the causes of thyroid issues and their implications on mental health, and the holistic ways to fix thyroid-related issues.
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In this episode, Paula shares her transformational journey that really signifies holistic healing. Paula takes us back to childhood as we explore the origins of her mental health struggles. She endured cultural shock and trauma as a teenage immigrant, which culminated in the diagnosis of depression at the age of 17. She went on and off medication before focusing fully on holistic healing, realizing that medication was not the solution.
Paula also did a lot of trauma work and underwent spiritual and emotional healing. But she was still unwell and was searching for the missing piece to the holistic approach of her treatment. After discovering me, she started addressing physiological conditions such as undiagnosed celiac disease and the resulting inflammation as one of the contributing factors to her struggles. This worked like magic and her energy and vitality recovered like never before. Since then, she has been undergoing detoxification and is well on her way to completely eliminating meds for good. Tune in and listen to the inspiring story of her incredible journey.
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One of my all-time favorite interviews, join me as I interview one of the founders of Histamine Haven - Tracey about the hidden role that histamines can play in your anxiety symptoms.
Together we explore the impact that histamines had on her life, Tracey's own journey of self-healing.
We also talk about how you can figure out if histamines are impacting you and what you can do about it!
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