Ali Watts shares her own personal journey to health and fitness including what’s she’s learned about exercise and nutrition. She talks about empowering women to get fit and live the lives they truly desire. Ali also discusses why women’s hormones, age, and nutritional and emotional needs make them unique and why the usual approaches to fitness don’t often work for women.
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Why is it generally accepted that motherhood comes at the expense of our health – with all that weight gain, fatigue, and exhaustion? It doesn’t have to be that way. What if your baby AND you could thrive together? You can be the mother and woman you want to be, and with Mom Hacks, you don’t have to listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. It’s time for a new mom world order.
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Why is that what you eat is so important to our overall mental health? My guest, Kristin Kirkpatrick – President of KAK Consulting, LLC and a dietitian and consultant of Wellness Nutrition Services – discusses the importance of food in dealing with mental health issues. She talks about which vitamins and minerals support mood and how eating more color can promote better mental health. On top of that, Kristin also talks about mental health in relation to why gut health is so important to it.
Joey Atlas shares his struggles with food as a child and then later as an adult competitive bodybuilder. Teased about his weight as a child, he found that sports enabled him to get in better shape but also started him on a downward spiral of food restricting alternating with binging. Over time, he realized he needed a more sustainable way to manage his carbohydrate and chocolate cravings without depriving himself of the foods he loved. His approach involves making exercise no different than it was when you
Anxiety and survivor coach Matthew Pappas is a survivor of childhood trauma and, because of this, struggled with food, body image issues, and relationships throughout most of his life. A “light bulb” moment in a therapy session enabled him to recognize how what had happened to him as a child had led to many of his problems. Matthew recounts how he was able to turn his life around. He has now dedicated himself to helping others who have survived trauma in their lives do the same.
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The way we are in the world, not often do we find women as the subject of spirituality. Generally, spirituality came as more political in our past and has always been of men. Changing that and placing a light on women in the picture is Mary Faulkner, pioneer in the field of mind-body healing as both a therapist and a teacher who employs clinical hypnotherapy in her work. She is the author of Women’s Spirituality: Power and Grace. Mary gives a peek into her book as she differentiates between women and men’
We are living in an age of information overload. There are just too many things that are served on our plate that we don’t know what to do anymore. We find ourselves, in the end, burning out. Dr. Joan Borysenko shares her latest book, Fried: Why You Burn Out and How to Revive and goes deep into the three indicators of a burnout – physical depletion, compassion fatigue, and diminished function – as well as the twelve stages of burnout. Dr. Borysenko says if we are honest with ourselves, we know that we can
There is so much to healing that people have yet to explore. Eva Herr shares the role consciousness plays in that. Eva is a medical intuitive luminary, author, and radio host. She talks about the possibilities of being able to change our realities with only our thoughts and how we can heal our body if we heal our emotions by tapping into who we are. Eva shares some insights from her book, Consciousness: Bridging the Gap Between Conventional Science and the New Super Science of Quantum Mechanics, and discuss
It is said that one in every ten children in America is diagnosed with ADHD. Going deeper into this finding is Dr. Sanford Newmark who talks about instances of misdiagnosis of ADHD to children by parents, teachers, and even people in the medical field. Dr. Newmark is a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California and head of the Pediatric Integrative Neurodevelopmental Program at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. He talks about his book, ADHD Without Drugs, and the
Anat Baniel, clinical psychologist and founder of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®, talks about the work she does with children who have developmental delays, from autism and Asperger’s to brain damage and attention deficit. Anat’s book, Kids Beyond Limits: The Anat Baniel Method for Awakening the Brain and Transforming the Life of Your Child With Special Needs, aims to help parents as well as their kids with developmental delays to thrive in their lives. Talking about how movements affect the actual
