How much of your physical ailments is due to emotional stress, and what can you do about it? When it comes to taking back our power over health and well-being, some of the most exciting research comes from epigenetics and energy medicine. Epige
If you have a chronic illness, you’re may experience numerous physical and emotional consequences, from physical pain and discomfort to anxiety about your body and the future to a loss of confidence in yourself. Practicing meditation regularly
When does a healing protocol become unhealthy? There can be a fine line, as you take actions to promote healing, between when those actions support healing and when they start to detract from it. If you’ve ever started to see a food as “bad” or
What role do commitment, perfectionism, and shame play in healing? Self-love and self-care might be the most important factors in promoting healing, and yet are often difficult for people to tackle. Whether you’re a Type A personality, a natura
How do the daily choices you make directly impact your health? With any chronic illness, you are likely to encounter recommendations for dietary and lifestyle changes to improve your condition. Yet what’s the basis for those recommendations, an
What is happening in the body with autoimmune disease? Understanding what is going on in the immune system with autoimmune disease helps us appreciate the steps we can take to support healing. Sarah Ballantyne, scientist and a leading proponent
What role does emotion play in chronic illness? Culture encourages us to disassociate mind from body, and many of us live most of our lives in our head. The consequence can be an imbalance in our emotions, which results in symptoms in the body.
What dietary factors play a role in chronic pain and inflammation? Many people with autoimmune disorders deal with chronic pain daily. Chiropractor Dr. Daniel Twogood joins us to share how to shift your mindset about what causes chronic pain an
How does your attitude affect your health? With a history of challenging health issues including epilepsy as a child and multiple sclerosis, Mary Ellen Ciganovich has learned the importance of attitude to positively shift well-being. How you ta
Returning guest Mickey Trescott joins us to share an action plan for recovering from autoimmune disorders, focusing on a do-it-yourself approach that takes into account the key areas that make the most impact on your health. Mickey outlines som
Energy medicine provides powerful yet simple tools to help heal yourself of illness. Psychotherapist and Eden Energy Practitioner Mikel Carmon illuminates the important relationship between the triple warmer and spleen meridians for people with
How is the balance of bacteria in your gut impacting your health, and what can you do about it?Fermented foods offer a low-impact and relatively safe way to affect the balance of bacteria in your gut. Bacteria impact digestion and help to modu
When you find yourself in times of uncertainty, as you will if you are on a healing journey, you might notice an abundance of questions. How you question has a lot to do with whether you sabotage your inward journey or dive deeper into it. Are
Are you listening to your body or at war with it?Many (if not most) people have an abundance of judgments about their body. With chronic illness, you may notice even more judgments about yourself and your body that contribute to dis-ease and d
How do toxic chemicals affect autoimmune disorders and what can you do to protect yourself? Around 87,000 chemicals are currently in commercial use, and very few of them have been studied with regard to their impact on health. Yet the evidence
Different approaches can offer new perspectives on healing autoimmunity. Acupuncturist and herbalist Anne Angelone shares ideas from both Chinese Medicine and Functional Medicine. From the inner tradition of Chinese Medicine comes the idea of m
What don’t you know? How do you respond when in uncertainty and not knowing? When you are on the healing journey, unknowns abound, bringing up fear and discomfort. When instead of going into your habitual responses, you can let not knowing open
What steps do you take when the medical bills are piled high? Certified Financial Planner Candice McGarvey returns to share tips on the practical and logistical steps to take to begin digging yourself out of a financial hole. Understanding the
How do you emotionally handle financial difficulties due to a chronic illness? Candice McGarvey, a Certified Financial Planner and financial coach whose baby was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, joins host Julie Stiles to share how to cop
This installment of the series on transformation continues the theme of letting go. Episode 26 outlined a framework for letting go, but sometimes it proves to be difficult to let go of patterns of belief and identity that have defined your life
How do you manage challenging health issues while raising a family? Katie Cleary, founder of autoimmunemom.com, joins host Julie Stiles to share her experience and wisdom from five years of raising young kids while managing multiple autoimmune
What is holding you back from moving into the life that is waiting for you? Letting go allows you to set down any internal or external aspects of your life that are no longer serving you so that you can step into the new unencumbered by the pas
Choosing to eat foods that nourish the body is a key way to support yourself on the healing journey. The Autoimmune Protocol is an elimination diet based on the Paleo diet that is intended to lessen autoimmune reactions. Mickey Trescott, author
How can you better manage stress in order to heal? Dr. Kathy Gruver returns to Autoimmune Adventures to discuss the stress response. With stress the underlying cause for more than half of doctor visits and a primary cause of flares in people wi
What role does (and should) alternative medicine have in healing? Many people with chronic illness look to alternative approaches when conventional medicine offers few good options. With so many alternatives to choose from, it can be daunting t