integrative care

Conversation with Dr. Karen Lawson about the relevance of Shamanism and Shamanic journeys in modern day.

Topics of Discussion:
-Shamanism and its practical application in today's world
-Practicing Shamanism without crossing the line of cultural appropriation
-Shamanic lifeway supporting environmental wellbeing

Karen Lawson, MD, ABIHM, NBC-HWC, is the founder and CEO of IHWC Productions, a consulting company that works with programs and individuals to advance and expand training in Integrative Health Coaching and Holistic Healthcare.

She served as the founder and Director of Integrative Health Coaching at the University of Minnesota from 2005-2022. She is a physician, board-certified in Integrative and Holistic Medicine; the 2004-2005 Past-President of the American Holistic Medical Association, and a founding Diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine. Dr. Karen is a founding board member of the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (www.nbhwc.org ). A published author and researcher, she speaks nationally to diverse audiences on the power of holistic health care practices and integrative health coaching. 

Karen has been a student of shamanism and shamanic healing for over 30 years, with a special interest in the roles of ritual, dance, yoga, and nature for healing and wellbeing. Over the last 20 years, Karen taught the UMN graduate course Foundations of Shamanism, and lead shamanic journeying at Pathways: A Healing Center. She’s had the privilege of leading students in immersive learning experiences on the sacred land at Martell’s Landing since 2014.

Karen is a dancer at heart, has had a 30-year yoga practice, and has completed a 230 hr. yoga teacher training.

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Resources mentioned on the episode:
https://noetic.org/
https://www.shamanism.org/
https://www.sandraingerman.com/

Literature:
The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
Shamanic Journeying by Sandra Ingerman

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Interview with Dr. Chad Kobs about discovering and treating patients’ primary symptoms using neurostructural correction chiropractic to optimize the body’s operating system.

Topics of Discussion:
-Personal responsibility  to create health rather than only stimulate health within self.
-Differences between conventional chiropractic and neurostructural correction chiropractic.
-Using a whole system approach to address both primary and secondary symptoms.

Dr. Chad Kobs discovered Neurostructural Chiropractic care and has been passionate about sharing this work. He explains what makes Neurostructural Chiropractic different than other types of chiropractic care, and share a message of hope that stems from his own experiences.

Dr. Chad Kobs has many experiences throughout his life that have led him down the road of becoming a Neurostructural chiropractor. Because his focus is so different from the conventional chiropractor, it has given him the opportunity to see many parts of the world to teach, learn, and expand Neurostructural Chiropractic.

It is Dr. Chad's mission to provide every family the best opportunity for health through Neuro-Structural Correction as this specialty dives deeper than the conventional chiropractic approach to determine the root cause of many of your families secondary conditions- or what most people refer to as symptoms. He believes in providing a different approach to each patient because each patient's health conditions are different.

Website :https://www.premierchirowi.com/
Instagram: @PremierChiropractic
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Interview with Caty Brown about the science and intuition behind sound healing and her belief that all people are healers.

Topics of Discussion:
-Sound healing as an intuitive practice for the practitioner
-The science behind using sound frequencies for therapy and realignment
-Providing space to reveal people's healing capacities and gifts

The founder of Soul Body Finesse, Caty Brown, is a Sound Healer, Reiki practitioner, labor & birth doula and creative consultant.  She coordinates wellness events, offers private group work, 1:1 and guides some of the in studio classes including the Wednesday night sound baths. Caty is available to help curate and collaborate on unique healing experiences to be cherished for life.

Caty believes balance is achieved by finding our center, coming back into harmony with our true frequency and listening to our intuition.  It was radical self care and holistic therapies that allowed her to heal and align with her Soul’s purpose of creating  safe spaces for people to connect, heal, share and grow together.  As a forever student and observer of the world,  she enjoys intuitively connecting with others by supporting self care practices that stimulate growth, inner peace and self acceptance.  She has a passion for serving and empowering women, mothers and all people to heal during difficult transitions in their lives. 

She moved back to Minneapolis in 2019 to start Soul Body Finesse with a mission to make Holistic therapy and Sound Healing more accessible to the community and to raise her children in this resilient, beautiful and artistic community.

Website: https://soulbodyfinesse.com/
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Interview with Megan Hadley about the benefits and opportunities that arise when using deep listening as a practice within integrative health coaching.

Topics of Discussion:
-Explaining and valuing deep listening within integrative health
-Developing the skill of deep listening
-Navigating and creating capacity to deeply listen within a fast paced culture

Megan Hadley, MA, NBC-HWC (she/her) is a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and also holds a graduate degree (MA) in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching and graduate minor in Health Equity from the University of Minnesota (UMN). She has additional specialized training in Cultural Approaches to Health, Nature-Based Healing, Reiki I and II, and Mindfulness Facilitation (via Enhanced Stress Resilience Training).

Megan brings a decade of experience community-building and healing through storytelling in the arts, and she has cultivated an artistic lens she uses in her coaching, facilitation, and mentorship work.  She allows time and space for immersive and embodied creative activities to tap into one's inner wisdom and intuition. This whole-person and compassionate approach has guided her to coaching, facilitation, mentorship, and now teaching initiatives throughout the arena of health and wellness.

Her coaching experience includes: NWHSU Integrative Clinic of Minnesota (formerly Pillsbury Clinic); BeWell program at UMN; VA Medical Center; HennepinHealth; Minnesota Head and Neck Pain Clinic; Mettacool International; The Driven Mama; and her own private practice, Harvest Health and Wellbeing LLC.

Megan's Private Practice - Harvest Health and Wellbeing LLC
Northwestern Health Sciences University Free Coaching

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Wellspired Membership
Coaching Through Emotions & Trauma - Kris Kniefel & Kerri Weishoff
Cultural Humility w/ Leslie Atley 
Mental Health Action Planning w/ Amber Reed

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Interview with Stacey Degen about blending Eastern philosophies and Western knowledge to provide drug-free wellness care for all her clients and how her passion for health supports women during their menopausal transition.

Stacey Degen is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Empowerment Specialist and Health Advocate conveniently located in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis. Her practice includes acupuncture, therapeutic movement, herbal medicine, and nutrition.

Stacey has spent the past 25 years as an empowerment specialist and health advocate inspiring people to live their best life possible regardless of their current physical and emotional health. She has built a loyal and expansive base of clients who value her background and ability to help them gain relief from pain, support their emotional health, and integrate healthy lifestyle choices into their daily lives.

Stacey is dedicated and committed to inspiring her community to live their best lives by applying safe, natural, and drug-free health and wellness care. Her practice blends traditional Eastern philosophies and practice with modern Western knowledge and experience to provide the highest level of care and professionalism.

Her recent personal life journey through menopause has fueled her passion to support women through this transition. Her accomplishments to support this work include a master’s certification on menopause and women’s health during the mid-life transition from the Eastern medical perspective, as well as a certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition on hormone health.

Stacey and is now one of a select few practitioners in the country certified to perform pelvic floor acupuncture to address many of the chronic pelvic floor conditions that naturally occur with the aging process. Her continued advance study of these areas positions her as a leader in the industry to offer natural health care solutions, inspiration, and support to her community.

Stacey complements her acupuncture practice with the continued study of various disciplines of nutrition, hormone health, yoga, and nature therapy.

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Interview with Dr. Katie Eagle about her work both in a traditional clinic and in her private practice to provide holistic, integrative care to her patients and clients.

Dr. Katie Eagle is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who holds a doctoral degree in Nursing. She is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Regenerative Health Practitioner and Clinical Iriologist. She currently works at New Kingdom Healthcare and also owns her own holistic practice, Waning Moon Wellness. 

When Katie isn’t in clinic, she is with her sweet boys playing outside or constructing lego empires. She enjoys working out, yoga, traveling and reading and learning as much as she can.

Websites:
waningmoonwellness.org

https://newkingdomwellness.com/

IG: krunchy_katie

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Interview with Chadd Burckhardt, owner and chiropractor of The Wellery MN, exploring what whole family chiropractic care can look like for your family.

Chadd Burckhardt has been practicing since 2008, treating people from all over the world. He is serious about providing the best chiropractic care and experience to his patients, and appreciates the value of good will and good humor. He believes your family will find The Wellery to be an effective, yet fresh and fun approach to chiropractic.

Through 2016, he practiced in Maple Grove, Minnesota, specializing in women and children’s health. From 2016 to 2019, he and his wife Melissa moved to Bangalore, India where he practiced full-time. In India, he also volunteered weekly at Accept Society Orphanage for children with HIV, as well as Sukrathum Home for Boys where he provided chiropractic care to the children, residents and staff. This experience further strengthened his love for caring for children and solidified his plan to open a practice dedicated to serving families upon return from India.

He is certified in the Webster Technique, a specialized prenatal chiropractic method that helps ensure the pelvis and surrounding structures are properly supporting the growth and development of the baby. He is also an active member in The Pediatric Experience, an organization dedicated to bringing top pediatric chiropractors together for training and further education. In March 2022, he received his Certificate of Proficiency in Pediatric and Family Chiropractic Care by the Life University Department of Postgraduate Education and The Pediatric Experience.  

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Interview with Owner and Founder of Well Connected Twin Cities, Alex Stalberger sharing her Provider Interview Guide to help you and your family find the right provider fit. 

As an emerging integrative health coach in November of 2017, Alex quickly discovered that supporting the healing of a human and running a healing business were very different things. She quickly began gathering professionals to connect, support, and learn from each other. These gatherings started humble and would become the collaborative force behind Well Connected Twin Cities. 

Together with health and wellness practitioners across the metro we are spreading the message of empowered wellbeing–Alex’s original motivation to become an integrative health coach.

When she isn’t developing the next phase of Well Connected Twin Cities, she’s most likely chasing her tiny humans, attempting to keep her house plants alive, or convincing her partner they should rescue a dog. . .  or a goat. 

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“...when the body is out of balance, the endocannabinoid system tries to rebalance it. We have an actual retrograde signaling with the endocannabinoid system so that if there's some imbalance and the body wants to try to bring it back to homeostasis, you're going to see this signaling.” ~Heidi Irene Martell, MA, BSN, BA, RN, HWNC-BC, HNB-BC, CCBCP, CYT

Ah-has

• Nurses must learn about the endocannabinoid system.  It is integral to practice.
• Nurse Coaching allows Nurses to combine the science and art of Nursing together with healing and desires in a holistic perspective
• A Nursing career lets us to adapt, change, and adjust to our personal and professional goals
• There can be a deep grief when a Nurse leaves the bedside to find another Nursing role

Resources and Links

CannyNurse® Specialty Program with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy

Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program

American Cannabis Nurses Association

Colibris Canna Consulting

Speak with Heidi as an INCA Admissions Specialist at hmartell@inursecoach.com

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Dr. Dagmara Beine is not only an amazing practitioner, but she truly understands what a family goes through as her daughter Zuza was diagnosed with cancer AND given a very poor prognosis at 3 ½ years old. 

Having worked in emergency medicine for 12 years, Dagmara understood the value of western medicine and how it could save her daughter's life. However, as her daughter moved through her treatment and recovery, she was shocked at how western medicine failed to care for Zuza as a whole person. She knew as a mother and clinician that she needed to incorporate other tools to guide Zuza through treatment and help her thrive as a cancer survivor. She is going to share with us today the tools she found and uses today in her practice.

Updates on the release of Dagmara's pediatric cancer book can be found on social media (Instagram and Facebook):  Zuza's Way Integrative Care

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To celebrate the conclusion of the first season of Mirror and a Flashlight, community members and the podcast team gathered for a virtual event reflecting on the surprises, inspirations, and challenges of making this podcast and sharing the stories of Chicago Women’s Health Center. This bonus episode brings listeners a recording of the panel discussion featuring our producer Ariel Mejia, Collective member and podcast collaborator Terri Kapsalis, and Staff members Leslie Fiedler and Scout Bratt, as well as the Q & A from that event. 

Learn more about Chicago Women’s Health Center and this podcast on our website at chicagowomenshealthcenter.org

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Thanks to our event moderator, Scout Bratt, and our panelists, Ariel Mejia, Leslie Fiedler, and Terri Kapsalis. Special thanks to Catherine Plonka for generously sharing her wisdom and insight with us all, and to Ari's mom, Kathy, for her participation. 

We want to hear from you, our listeners, about your thoughts on this season - and if you want to hear more from us! Share your ideas and feedback using our Listener Survey here. 

This podcast was produced by Ariel Mejia - learn more about her work here. This episode was edited by A.J. Barks, Sarah Rebecca Gaglio, and Terri Kapsalis, with additional editorial support from Lisa Schergen.

Mirror and a Flashlight is made possible by our community of support. Our special thanks to Corbett Vs Dempsey, Women Unite!, Early to Bed, Women & Children First Bookstore, Laura McAlpine Consulting for Growth, and Mats Gustafsson and Catalytic Sound. 

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In this final episode of the season, Mirror and a Flashlight brings listeners a story that exemplifies CWHC’s integrative approach to health care and shows what is possible when the entire individual is considered and engaged along the winding road of healing. Chiara Francesca generously shares how, since 2009, she has collaborated with her providers across programs, and what this approach has meant for her health and her ability to show up for herself and others.

Learn more about Chicago Women’s Health Center and this podcast on our website at www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org

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Endless thanks to Chiara Francesca for sharing her story with us. You can learn more about her work via her Instagram account at Instagram.com/chiara.acu

We want to hear from you, our listeners, about your thoughts on this season - and if you want to hear more from us! Share your ideas and feedback using our Listener Survey here. 

This was the final episode of this season of Mirror and a Flashlight. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who listened, shared, and supported this project. Special shout outs to Jaya Sahihi, Cameron Burnette, Antonia Willnow, and Camille Slater for their work and insight.

This podcast was produced by Ariel Mejia - learn more about her work at arielmejia.com. This episode was edited by A.J. Barks, Sarah Rebecca Gaglio, and Terri Kapsalis, with additional editorial support from Lisa Schergen.

Mirror and a Flashlight is made possible by our community of support. Our special thanks to Corbett Vs Dempsey, Women Unite!, Early to Bed, Women & Children First Bookstore, Laura McAlpine Consulting for Growth, and Mats Gustafsson and Catalytic Sound. 

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We’re having an event! Join us on March 24th from 7-8:15pm CST for a live, virtual event reflecting on the making of Mirror and a Flashlight! We'll be listening to compelling moments from our podcast's first season, and talking through the questions it has sparked for listeners and creators alike.

Tickets are $10 and you can get yours here today! The event will feature a Q+A and we want to hear from you! Submit questions about the podcast and/or CWHC using this form.

What does integrative health mean, and how is it part of feminist care? What are the barriers to accessing - and providing - a wider range of frameworks and resources for healing? In this episode of Mirror and a Flashlight, we talk with Clinical Services Director, Leslie Fiedler, about CWHC’s Integrative Health Program (IHP). Learn about how this program is advancing CWHC’s model of care by ensuring the clients have access to a range of healing options, including acupuncture, Pelvic Floor Therapy, and an Intuitive Eating framework of nutrition.

Learn more about Chicago Women’s Health Center and this podcast on our website at www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org. 

Special thanks to Leslie Fiedler for sharing her wisdom with us for this episode.

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We’re having an event! Join us on March 24th from 7-8:15pm CST for a live, virtual event reflecting on the making of Mirror and a Flashlight! We'll be listening to compelling moments from our podcast's first season, and talking through the questions it has sparked for listeners and creators alike.

Tickets are $10 and you can get yours here today! The event will feature a Q+A and we want to hear from you! Submit questions about the podcast and/or CWHC using this form, or by sending a voice memo to us at podcast@chicagowomenshealthcenter.org.

Mirror and a Flashlight is made possible by our community of support. Our special thanks to Corbett Vs Dempsey, Women Unite!, Early to Bed, Women & Children First Bookstore, Laura McAlpine Consulting for Growth, and Mats Gustafsson and Catalytic Sound. 

This podcast was produced by Ariel Mejia and edited by A.J. Barks, Sarah Rebecca Gaglio, and Terri Kapsalis, with additional editorial support from Lisa Schergen and Leslie Fiedler.

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For more information on some of the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend the following resources:

• Pacific College of Health and Science
• Health At Every Size: Resource Page
• National University of Natural Medicine
• Bastyr University
• Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine
• Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

CWHC’s Collaborating Providers

• Martha Burla, MPH, CHES is a certified health education specialist and intuitive eating counselor. Martha works from a fat positive, Health at Every Size, trans inclusive perspective.
• Ariel Wynne PT, DPT is a physical therapist specializing in the pelvic floor.

Learn more about CWHC’s Integrative Health Program and services:

• Acupuncture and Bodywork
• Nutrition Counseling and Intuitive Eating
• Pelvic Floor Therapy