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Colleen Kuhn, a Registered Dietitian and Plant-Based Health Coach, hosts The Nutrition Translator Podcast—a show dedicated to exploring what it truly means to live a nutritious life. Beyond just food, this podcast delves into nourishing all aspects of well-being, including emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
In each episode, Colleen either engages in enlightening conversations with unique guests on a range of topics such as neuroscience, yoga, psychology, trauma, body image, relationships, sacred plant medicine, and plant-based nutrition, or shares deeply personal insights in solo episodes about her own health journey.
This podcast offers a blend of functional and spiritual guidance, providing listeners with actionable advice and transformative insights to enhance their overall health and life.
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Embarking on a 10-day dieta with Noya Rao, the "Tree of Light," of the Amazon jungle, was a profound journey into the depths of my being. Known for its luminescent leaves that glow in the darkness, Noya Rao symbolizes illumination and truth. Throughout the dieta, I experienced a profound challenges, confronting and releasing deep-seated emotional blockages of betrayal, lonliness, and abandonment. The spirit of Noya Rao guided me to face my inner shadows, illuminating aspects of myself that ha...
I was so honored to have Yael Joffee, PhD of 3x4 Genetics, join my 2024 cohort of the Sacred Food Journey. Join my 2025 cohort! NOW ENROLLING and starting in March. Click here
Join us for the Sacred Food Journey, a 4-month live online course, including an in-person Sacred Plant Medicine retreat with both Ayahuasca & Huachuma, designed to break free from the confines of diet culture and cultivate a healthier relationship with food and body image. This unique program incorporates trauma-informed practices, shamanic journeying, Sacred Plant Wisdom, and empowering somatic techniques. Learn more: https://www.nutritiontranslator.com/sacredfoodjourney What is in...
I tried out the precision health company, Wild Health, for 3 months and it was incredibly impressive. I even made shocking nutrition changes you won't believe, based on my personal genetic testing results. I don't promote services on this podcast unless I stand by what they offer, and have tried it myself. I had Dr. Matt Dawson on the show to talk about Wild health. Wild Health is a genomics-based precision medicine program that provides personalized care based on genetics. The program analyz...
My Ayahuasca teacher, Jess Gold, interviewed me for her podcast, the Cielo Community Podcast! I decided to share the interview here as well. I have been working with Jess the past 4 years and now helping to facilitate ceremony. Jess has been serving the Medicine and leading ceremonies for the last eight years and she is currently continuing her medicine path to become a Tabaquera under the tutelage Maestro Tabaquero Ernesto García de la Torres in Iquitos, Peru.
Which is better, the in, or the out? It's actually both together. Proximity and separation. The heat and the cooling. The forgetting and the remembering. We are participants and creations of the cosmic f**k. Where we get stuck is preferring one place over the other.
The yearning, the longing, the ever becoming. It is not a singular fixed location of attaining, it's the spaces in between. Where the meadow meets the forest. The tidal pools, the transition between land and sea is where most life is born. The backing the for-thing. Which is better, the in or the out? It's actually both together. Proximity and separation. The heat and the cooling. The forgetting and the remembering. We are participants and creations of the cosmic f**k. Where we get stuck is p...
My love affair with Ayahuasca continues... This song was adapted from the original by Johanna Warren, White Owl
Podcast Today’s guest is Mohini Gima. She does work with women of color to reclaim their roots, intimacy, voice and womb so they can thrive in all relationships. In today’s conversation we dive deep right away talking about toxic wellness culture and structural systems of oppression, and how that affects BIPOP communities. We discuss how systemic, ancestral, intergenerational trauma affects how we show up today in our bodies and what we can do to make a change within ourselves and also cultur...
What if our wellness culture isn't making us well. We live in a society haunted by the idea of wholeness, perfection, getting finally getting into an untraumatized body. But what if this ideal of self actualization & getting to the highest version of ourselves is actually making us sicker, more separate & less compassionate? What about those with sicknesses with no remedies? What about those with limited resources and socioeconomically disadvantages? What if instead of looking u...
Since coming back from the jungles of the Amazon, I have had A LOT to reflect on and integrate. What is not talked about enough is the, "rough landing," coming home from a psychedelic or transformational experience. Along with the rough landing, the concept of spiritual materialism and spiritual bypassing can be easily missed in the spiritual community. Walking the spiritual path can be very slippery & a subtle process. We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing, when instea...
Sweet Marosa, you had me look at all the times I've been hurt, & sit with deep sadness, grief, loss, abandonment, boundary violations, disrespect & dishonorable treatment from others & broken heartedness. I've forgiven them & myself. I saw how & where my walls of protection were built & how to let them down, one by one. I now feel a full-bodied certainty of value in this world & feel available to experience & share my love in healthy ways. I feel a sense of dee...
My Peru adventure was not what I excepted. Some things went terribly wrong, and I was put in some very dangerous situations. The jungle did eat me alive, and it made me stronger. Though the journey was unbelievably challenging on every level possible, I came out on the other side changed and completely transformed. I am glad the expedition wasn't what I expected, because in the end, it was better than I could have ever imagined. 5 weeks in the Jungle, 1 week in the mountains of Peru, 3 shaman...
I got to meet the spirit of Redwood this past July, AKA a shamanic dieta with Rojo Caspi (Redwood). Redwood's teachings and wisdom came through my dreams, through the whispers of nature, meditation and synchronicities during our communion together. I had dreams of my dog & sister dying which felt so real I cried for hours. I had visions during my meditations of red blood washing down a wall, symbolizing the red in redwood, blood, death & beauty in what can come from death. I pulled th...
Liminality is the place of no longer and the not yet. Liminal spaces are where the magic happens. This can also be a place of great discomfort. A place sometimes called, ‘crazy space.” Being in a liminal space can be incredibly uncomfortable for most. Brains crave homeostasis and predictability, and liminal space is everything but this. Death, divorce, loss, illness, the space in between making a decision are considered liminal spaces. This Ayahuasca path that I am on is forcing me to find wa...
Ayahuasca icaros, or ikaros, are traditional indigenous Amazonian songs that are performed as accompaniment to sacred plant healing ceremonies. They are musical prayers that embody the powers of spirits of plants and animals, deities, ancestors, and elemental forces. Channeled into this reality by Ayahuasca facilitators and Shamans, they are employed as efficient healing agents, powerful spirit weapons, or ineffable realm creators. Shamans learn icaros through years of training and communing ...
Today I have on the show Andrea Lee. Andrea Lee, B.S.N., R.N. is the founder and CEO of Mindful Cube, a consulting company dedicated to helping individuals learn skills to live more fully in the present moment by skillfully working with difficult thoughts, sensations and emotions that arise. She is also an RN who has spent the majority of her career building oncology nurse navigation programs that bridge gaps in our fragmented healthcare system and improve quality of care for patients and pro...
This podcast is an update on my life and musing on Ayahuasca's teachings, following your calling/purpose, different types of relating - monogamous and non-monogamous, conscious relationships, manifestation, courage, trauma healing, interoception and faulty signals our bodies can give us due to past trauma, and how to listen your intuition & following your heart. Note: I know that Top Gun is the Navy, not the Air Force! This podcast is a vulnerable one & it's not perfect & much mor...
Ayahuasca forms the foundation of the indigenous plant medicine traditions of the Western Amazonian Shamanism, but the dieta plays a crucial role in building upon that foundation. It could be considered the support beams of the tradition, upon which the rest of the structure is built. So what is a dieta? In simple terms, a dieta is a contract made between a curandero, or student of curanderismo, and a particular plant spirit. For several days the dieter communes with the plant with no other d...
Today I have on the show Randy Havens! You may know him best from Stranger Things (2016) playing middle school teacher, Mr. Clarke, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) playing Dr. Tim Mancini, and Instant Family (2018) playing Michael. I know Randy because we have been drinking Ayahuasca together for about a year. I wanted to invite Randy on to talk all things, stranger things…including the very strange world of Ayahuasca! https://www.instagram.com/mrrandyhavens/
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