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The Integrated Bodies Series: Why Naming Your Trauma Isn't Enough to Change, with Jennifer Schlueter
A woman walks into a session with endometriosis pain at a 10 out of 10. She has done the nutrition changes, the exercise, the journaling, the therapy. None of it has moved the number. One to three hypnosis sessions...
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The Integrated Bodies Series: What the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain Actually Means for Your Body, with Jess Mather
A woman in her 30s had already been told she needed knee surgery. Getting it scheduled in Canada was going to take too long, so she was looking at flying to a clinic in Pennsylvania and paying close to $10,000. Before...
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The Integrated Bodies Series: How Gina Marie Boyd Survived Burnout to Build a Whole-Person Health Framework
Gina Marie Boyd was president of a company managing an IPO when her life fell apart. A few weeks earlier, a woman she'd met by chance in a coffee shop had told her, "I'm in AA. If you ever need anything, call me."...
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The Integrated Bodies Series: Integrative Practitioners, One Book, and What They're Trying to Support, with Jess Verrill
There's a component of what you know about your own body that no lab test and no expert can hand you. That's one of the things Jess Verrill says in this conversation, and it reframes self-advocacy in a way that isn't...
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Foundations Series, The Hormone Hierarchy: Why Cortisol and Insulin Come First
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If you've been prescribed thyroid medication or hormone replacement therapy, watched your labs move to where your doctor wanted them, and still felt exactly the same ā€” this episode explains why. The short version:...
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The Self-Care Trap: Why High-Achieving Women Burn Out and What to Ask Instead, with Carrie Holland, MD
The skill that helped you succeed at work, the ability to ignore your own needs, is the exact thing keeping you stuck now. That's one of the sharpest observations Carrie Holland makes in this conversation, and it...
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The Gut-Brain Connection: Why Anxiety and Depression May Start in Your Gut with Jenny Olson
Forty percent of Americans have quietly stopped doing their normal routines because of digestive symptoms, and most of them never mentioned it to their doctor. That stat stopped me in my tracks when Jenny brought up...
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Why Am I Always Bloated? A Q&A on Leaky Gut, Nervous System Digestion, and the Two Habits That Actually Move the Needle
Eating six times a day, something many of us were literally taught to do, turns out to be one of the worst things you can do for your digestive system. In this solo Q&A episode, I work through the most common...
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A Short Note from Charis
No episode this week, I recorded a short note instead.
See you next Tuesday.
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Foundation Series, Nervous System: Why Your Body Runs a Safety Check All Day and How to Regulate Your Nervous System from the Ground Up
Breathwork, cold plunge, and meditation are not where nervous system regulation actually starts. Most people skip the layer underneath all of it, and that missing foundation is exactly why those tools keep falling...
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Foundations Series, Gut Part 3: Why Diversity & Abundance Matter, and How to Actually Get Enough Fiber
Your gut microbiome contains more cells than your entire human body, and without enough bacterial diversity, even a client with near-perfect gut diversity can still suffer chronic headaches, fatigue, and a stalled...
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Foundations Series, Gut Part 2: How to Heal Leaky Gut: The Trifecta Behind Autoimmune Disease, Skin Issues, and a Gut Barrier That's Already Broken
Having Hashimoto's in remission for seven years with clean bloodwork is not just luck. It's what happens when you treat leaky gut as a foundational issue instead of a side note. That's the lens I bring to this...
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