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Explore "breathing" with insightful episodes like "Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance", "Coping Skills for Your Toolbox with Jenifer Wallace", "Episode 44", "Auto-Immune, Yoga, & Wellness" and "Everything Is Going To Be OK" from podcasts like ""Huberman Lab", "Trauma Rewired", "Wolf and Owl", "Trauma Rewired" and "Everyday Positivity"" and more!
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Coping Skills for Your Toolbox with Jenifer Wallace
In this episode I will be talking about different coping tools you can add to your toolbox right now. We will be changing the physiological state in the body to the rest and digest place.
In this episode, I discuss:
- When I discovered nervous system healing and fight to repair my mind and body
- My encouragement to you to nurture yourself on your journey to heal
- Using your senses as coping tools that can help you relax
- Co-regulating and the different methods and reactions of it
- Giving gratitude for the physical body and its help with expansion
- Meditation, trauma, and training your nervous system
- Respiration tools – I guide you through 2 different breathing exercises
- The vagus nerve
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Episode 44
Auto-Immune, Yoga, & Wellness
This week the amazing Lizzie Brooks joins me to discuss her approach to breathing, yoga and exercise, and their benefits on the body and the mind. She is a fantastic, funny, energetic yoga and fitness teacher, and also a wellness writer. Tune in to find out more about meditation techniques, breathing, yoga, strength training, auto-immune diseases, and much more!
In this episode, we share:
- Lizzie's approach to life through levity
- The importance of body-mind connection
- Combining movements to meditation
- A step-by-step explanation of the breath-focused meditation
- The ‘minimum effective dose’ approach
- A phenomenal book about breathing
- Respiratory training as a routine to help your brain
- How Lizzie got into yoga practice
- How to reduce stress with yoga and breathing techniques
- Using your non-dominant side to challenge and train the brain
- HIIT and weight training in addition to yoga to strengthen the muscles
- Lizzie's weekly workout routine
- Do your own research to find out what's the right yoga for you
- How to channel emotions through movements
- How Lizzie's lifestyle helped her cope with autoimmune diseases
- Taking time for yourself is key to happiness
- Lizzie explains what biofeedback training is
- How the brain can get overwhelmed by continuous stimuli
- Issues and benefits from online classes
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Brooks, Lizzie. How to Make the Most of Your Yoga Teacher Training
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Everything Is Going To Be OK
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Quintessential Guide to Preconception, Pregnancy & Postpartum
This week I am talking with Author and Physical Therapist, Patricia Ladis, about her book ‘The Wise Woman’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth’ which she co-wrote with Anita Sadaly. Patricia talks about the unique approach behind this book which focuses on the physiology of pregnancy, the body’s changing structure, musculature, and flexibility. It will help prepare you for pregnancy by providing exercises and real medical knowledge as well as show you how to relax, enjoy and embrace this beautiful time with confidence and happiness. She will also be sharing how to avoid injury, recover quickly from birth and how to strengthen your body.
In this episode, we discuss:
- [3:35] Patricia shares the reasons for the book
- [4:47] Isolation and loneliness is dangerous
- [5:13] Who Patricia works with
- [6:30] Her journey to her current role
- [08:50] Discussing the importance of movement on our body, mental health, and pregnancy
- [10:30] ‘The Telomere Effect’
- [14:15] The negative effects of inflammation and stress
- [17:32] Patricia shares a story about one man’s astonishing telomere results
- [18:38] We are not meant to be isolated
- [21:34] The importance of having support in your life
- [23:00] Chronic inflammation indicators and causes
- [24:00] The role of the man in the pregnancy
- [28:33] Positive benefits of cleaning up your lifestyle
- [31:00] Eat smarter and satisfy the nutritional needs of the baby
- [37:14] Nutrients absorption and gut health
- [38:39] Breathing as a regulatory system
- [44:18] Breathing dysfunction during pregnancy and the power of positive breathwork
- [48:26] Breathing strategy when stressed
- [50:26] Patient’s fascinating story
- [57:00] The role of your nervous system and its effect on your breathing
- [59:00] Another patient’s story
- [01:00:39] How the limbic system and past traumas affect our breathing
- [01:01:50] Movement through the trimesters
- [01:05:40] Good posture and body mechanics
- [01:08:00] Patricia’s three birthing experiences
- [01:17:04] Breathwork and visualization during labor
- [01:20:16] What you can expect to find in the book
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Patricia Ladis, PT, CBBA & Anita Sadaly, MD. The Wise Woman’s Guide to Your Healthiest Pregnancy and Birth. From Preconception to Postpartum
Patricia Ladis, Alina Hernandez, Dr. Sergio Pecorelli. The First 1,000 Day of Wellness
Dr. Elissa Epel & Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn. Telomere Effect
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How To Sleep
Guided Sleep is Live!!
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Guided Meditation: 'Simply Begin Again'
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183. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
The debut of a live game show from Freakonomics Radio, with judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer, and David Paterson.