If you’ve noticed that your anxiety is affecting your complexion with irritation, dryness and breakouts, you’re gonna want to tune into today’s episode as we explore the power of aromatherapy in skin healing. Our inner world affects our outer beauty which in turn impacts our sense of self and self-esteem. Today’s guest, founder of Fleurissent Skincare, Tracey To shares her journey from disabling anxiety and depression to finding her passion, purpose and mission to share one of the most ...
If you’ve never heard of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS), you’re not alone, but more than likely you know someone who may be silently suffering with this chronic inflammatory skin condition. HS can affect our most intimate places on our physical body causing pain, discomfort and disability. HS also can have a profound impact beneath the surface on our psychosocial wellbeing. Even if you don’t have HS, no doubt at some point in your life you have experienced a felt sense of shame, a universa...
How do you have a “healthy” relationship with your family? With yourself? How do you repair a relationship with someone you love? Is it even worth repairing and how do you know? If you seek therapy, what needs to happen inside and outside the therapeutic relationship to help all of your other relationships be more successful? This episode takes the plunge into the topic of relational trauma: what it is, how it happens and what you can do about it and will help you answer all of these quest...
If you've got a sweet tooth or have struggled to break up with sugar, you're gonna want to play this episode on repeat. My guest, Danielle Daem, is a Sugar Freedom Expert & Somatic Embodiment Coach who is passionate about helping women heal their relationship with sugar and themselves so they can reclaim control over their health and energy once and for all! This episode is stripping down the root causes of sugar dependency and revealing the path to total body health and well...
After diving deep last episode into how society’s whispers manifest on our skin and souls, my daughter Kelen is back and we’re zooming in closer, peeling back yet another layer: relationships. Have you ever thought about how the relationships we cultivate directly influence our comfort or discomfort in our own skin? Let's be real, no textbook out there can prep us for the rollercoaster of interacting with other humans. But we can make the ride a little less daunting and scary by ta...
For many women, there’s a complex tapestry of societal messages influencing not just our skincare routines, but our self-worth. This can create layers of anxiety, insecurity and shame that can weigh us down. In this episode, my daughter Kelen joins me as we go beyond the surface to explore the topics we are often too afraid to talk about and often too painful to admit. Kelen holds nothing back as she brings her first-hand experience and heartfelt thoughts on all the things that can make us fe...
Have you ever felt anxious? Or perhaps a better question to ask is how often do you feel anxious? Research shows that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older which is equivalent to 30% of adults being affected at some point in their lives. What that really means is that if you’ve struggled with anxiety, you’re not alone. And it’s totally understandable with current events, living through the pand...
Every year, people with uteruses will go through menopause—that’s an estimated 1.3 million women (and some trans men) in the U.S. alone who enter menopause. Rather than this natural biological transition being weighed down under layers of anxiety, stress and overwhelm, my guest today is offering an approach for an alternative experience. Menopause health coach, mindfulness practitioner and neuroscientist, Clarissa Kristjansson PhD is daring to bare all about how mindfulness can make the...
In this episode, we’re shedding the layers of trauma – using biology. Just think about how many hours, or worse YEARS, you have spent feeling anxious, overwhelmed and exhausted. Feeling uncomfortable in your skin and wondering why no matter what pill, potion or procedure you try nothing seems to change. That ends today. Today my guest is Dr. Aimie Apigian, a double board-certified medical physician in both preventive and addiction medicine and holds double master’s degrees in biochemist...
I’m so excited Katie Fogarty is our guest today. She is all about stripping away the idea that midlife is a crisis and why it’s a time of confidence and opportunity instead. I knew I had to have her on the podcast and get her message out to my Skinny Dippers, so she is joining me on this episode to share more about the work she is doing to inspire women all over the world to “age out loud”. Katie Fogarty is the host of A Certain Age - an age-positive podcast that helps you l...
Have you ever felt anxious? Or maybe a better question to ask is how often do you feel anxious? And how do you even know it’s anxiety? Well, today we’re diving into all of it and I’m stripping down why anxiety happens, how you know that what you’re feeling is anxiety and a step-by-step process to guide you through it. I’ll also share 5 ways you can help relieve that anxious feeling on the spot. So if you struggle with anxiety, or feel anxious sometimes, this episode gives you tool...
No matter what stage of life you are in, there are so many things we experience on a daily basis that make us wonder…is this normal? Am I normal? And then if you’re like so many of us, you spin in anxiety, worry and overwhelm thinking about how you’re probably the only one experiencing it, leading to feelings of shame, isolation, frustration and perhaps fear. That’s exactly why I am beyond thrilled to have a conversation with my guest today, because she literally wrote the book ab...
If self-doubt, shame or anxiety are holding you back from applying for that promotion, getting on that zoom call or speaking up at a meeting, this episode is for you. In this episode, you will learn how to deepen your healing by understanding how your childhood and lived experiences may have created your “skin story” that is still impacting you as an adult. Today, we are stripping down how your childhood and life experiences are impacting the way you see, feel and think about yourself a...
Today’s episode is a masterclass on making your mess your magic, listening to your body and living your best life now (no matter what other people say about menopause). Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is optional and my guest today is stripping away the myths and misinformation that is keeping too many women on the struggle bus. I’m thrilled that my guest today is Dr. Anna Cabeca, a triple-board certified physician in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti...
Today we are stripping away the myths and misinformation surrounding beauty fads, trends and “skinfluencers.” Buckle up, because my guest, Alexandra Engler, is stripping it all down for us. Alexandra is a veteran beauty writer, senior beauty editor of Mindbodygreen and host of Mindbodygreen Clean Beauty Podcast. In this episode, hear how Alexandra cuts through the noise of the beauty industry when it comes to clean and green ingredients, beauty products, and social media fanfare so listeners ...
Are you tired of spending a sh*t ton of money on lotions, potions and procedures trying to achieve glowing skin and not seeing a return on your investment? I get it, and you’re not alone. Did you know the average American woman spends upwards of $250,000 or more on her appearance and yet studies show that less than 5% of women would consider themselves beautiful? It’s frustrating, but there’s also an explanation for it that we strip down in this episode. I had the pleasure of bein...
I’m so excited Susan Hyatt is our guest today. She is all about ditching deprivation and diet culture and making pleasure a priority. I knew I had to have her on the podcast and get her message out to my Skinny Dippers, so she is joining me on this episode to share more about the work she is doing to inspire women all over the world to stop shrinking their bodies and start expanding their lives. Susan Hyatt is a Master Certified Life and Business Coach who is helping thousands of ...
I’m so excited for our guest today who I know is going to change the way we deal with women’s sexuality. I knew I had to have her on the podcast and get her message out to my Skinny Dippers, so she is joining me on this episode to share more about the work she is doing to change the conversation about sex for midlife women. Dr. Sonia Wright is a board-certified radiologist, a trained sexual counselor and a life coach (rumor has it, she has also worked in a sex toy store). Dr. Sonia is on a mi...
JJ Virgin is a triple-board certified nutrition expert, four time New York Times bestselling author and host of the popular Ask the Health Expert podcast, with over 13 million downloads and growing. JJ Virgin is a passionate advocate of eating and exercising smarter and helps people stay fired up and healthy as they age, so they feel the best they ever have at age 40+. If you’ve been wanting to know the skinny on diet and acne, the truth about foods that affect your skin and the number #1 thi...
I was riding my Peloton this morning, and all of a sudden it hit me… If I ever want to live the life of my dreams, I have to say F*** it to this. You do too. What do we need to say F*** it to? Dreaming, visualizing, and fantasizing about your future self. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for having big dreams and ambitious goals and putting a plan into action to accomplish them. What I’m not for is consuming all our time and energy with these things at the expense of being in relationship with our...