Healin Podcast

This is a follow up episode to the previous episode on Friendship Matters, where we talk about what are all the necessary skills or areas that we need to strengthen or to increase awareness around to be able to deepen our current relationships with our friends, romantic relationships or at home. I talk about the importance of mindset and the awareness of our thoughts when we are making the effort to make new friends or deepen the connection, about the need to have a vison and awareness of what we need and are looking for on a friend, about green flags in relationships to look out for and what are some of the areas that might need healing to increase our levels of adaptability, flexibility, trust and vulnerability, that are crucial in the formation of deeper bonds. If you want to learn more, please listen to the previous episodes on the importance of attachment theory  "Attachment Styles and AEDP Therapy with Christy O'Shoney" and Healing from Complex Trauma with Attachment Informed EMDR with Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown. If you also find this episode please share it with your friends and family to help us all achieve deeper connections in our lives. 

his is extremely helpful conversations with friendship experts, if you are curious or interested in making new friends, or deepening your connections with existing friends!  My guest, Karen Riddell is a public speaker and Psychology Today blogger on the topic of friendships and the Author of the book, "Friendship Matters".  We had a fascinating and helpful conversation on WHY friendship matters, the multitude of physical, emotional and professional benefits that having friends has,  the scientific research behind the power that friendship has, e.g. people's presence, their touch and connection fuels our bodies with oxytocin and we discussed the evidence and statistics on how it improves our health and longevity. We talked about how and where to find new friends, about the skills needed to grow and deepen friendships, and what we can proactively do to make and deepen the relationship with our friends to feel better and live longer!   To learn more about Karen Riddell and book her as a speaker, please go to her website at karenriddell.com or on social media at @thefriendshipmattersbook.   With the current loneliness pandemic, please share this episode with as many people as possible to support us in inspiring as many of us to HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with your health, with your relationships and in every area of our lives.   

Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained board-certified Psychiatrist and professional chef and nutritional specialist who is considered a Nutritional Psychiatry Pioneer and the author of "This Is Your Brain On Food" and of her latest book "Calm Your Mind with Food" .   We spoke about her journey into incorporating nutrition as a fundamental foundation of mental health and her psychiatry practice, how many physicians are unaware of the role that nutrition plays and how that is changing with over 20% of medical school having a robust nutritional component in medical education, why what we eat is so important to our mental health, how when you start to improve what you eat it works as a catalyst for healthier habits and better physical and mental health, why sugars and carbs have a negative effect on our anxiety and tips on how we can enjoy small amounts of the carbs that we love, and more tips about what to eat to avoid and treat both anxiety and depression.    To learn more about Dr. Uma Naidoo please check our her website at https://umanaidoomd.com, follow her at @drunanaidoo on all social media platforms, if you want to eat foods for your brain and health but don't like to cook please try out her Mood Food Meals with the Daily Dose - delivering freshly prepared meals using her brain food recipes and spices, and please subscribe to Dr Uma's newsletter on Substack and if you are a physician or a student in training Dr. Uma is an instructor with her own @MasterClass - see her classes on Brain Health and sign up for Dr Uma's course on  Nutritional Psychiatry.    Please share this episode with everyone who is facing anxiety or depression and can benefit of this information to healIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with there health and relationships. 

This is a helpful and inspirational episode with Leanne Townsend, a Family Lawyer, who felt that she was stuck on a hamster wheel and decided to prioritize her health and wellbeing attaining amazing results, not just in weight loss but in every area of her life, including love.   We talked about her health journey, what helped her and how it is never the right time to prioritize ourselves and our health, but when we decide to do so, and focus on planting and watering our own garden, doing the work, and what is needed to establish the right habits for her successful results.    You can learn more about Leanne, her law practice, Townsend Family Law, and her growing Facebook Health & Wellness Group at @leannetownsendlife on Instagram, Leanne Townsend on Facebook and Linked IN at www.townsendfamilylaw.ca.   If you find this episode as helpful as I did, please share it with your friends and colleagues to help us inspire as many people as possible to invest in themselves to and HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with their health, their relationships and with every area of their lives.  

This is a solo episode that you and everyone you know will find extremely helpful. I talk about the importance of getting "Curious, Not Furious" , a term I first heard from one of my guest in this podcast, Johanna Lynn, and I wanted to use it when it refers to dealing with our angry emotions. I talk about why feeling anger is a positive thing, I explain how we learned to deal with anger and we explore all the reasons why it is important to get Curios and not Furious. I then explain all the different ways that we can get curious and what it means and share helpful coping mechanisms to deal with difficult emotions when they arrive. To learn more, or to work with me go to Linkedin at Karen Millon or Instagram at @karenmilloncoaching and send me a DM. Please support me in inspiring others to HealIN to achieve greater levels of satisfaction in every area of their lives!    The information in this solo episode is based on my years as a coach and learning from my clients and the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Aaron Beck.. Principles that I was trained and certified on, and the Trauma Informed awareness that I have learned from the many guests that I have had in the podcast and the many trauma informed books, and tedtalks, and youtubes that I have read or heard. Detail references available upon requests.  Books include "The Myth of Normal' By Gabor Mate, "What happened to you?" by Dr. Brice Perry, How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera, TedTaks by Juna Mustart, and Mike Goldman and YouTubes by Mark Tyrell,  an Anger therapise and anger researched Ryan Martin.

It there is anything that you want to work on, heal from, or dimmish an anxiety without having to talk about it or "go through it" or "feel it to heal it" this is the episode for you.   On this episode, I had an in-depth conversation about his background, the difference between Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Solution-Focused Clinical  Hypnotherapy he practices today, and how and why it works to re-program your subconscious mind by quieting down the judgmental pre-frontal cortex without having to go through what happened to you.  We discussed that for the cases where we do have to "go through it" how he has experience that Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is the fastest and safest way to go through a trauma to heal it. To learn more about Paul and to work with him you can find him on his website https://CohesiveSOULutions.com/about.  If you are interested in his Executive Coaching or Team/Culture Building, they can go to https://cohesivecoaching.com and please visit his Facebook at CohesiceSOULutions.   I you find this episode as helpful as I have, please share it with friends, family and co-workers and please subscribe to help us on our journey to inspire as many people as possible to do this work to HealIN to achieve greater levels of satisfaction in every area of their lives.

If you have heard many of this podcasts previous episodes on coaching, CBT, 6 on EMDR, IFS, Hypnosis and more, you know that the key to healing, or one of the first steps of a healing journey, it gaining an awareness of what happened to us, or the origin of our fears, anxieties, or symptoms.  On this episode, I was super excited to introduce you to a new therapy modality for me and for this podcast, Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations,  that provides us with clues or a deep dive into where else might fears or anxieties that we are experiencing, come from, when we can not remember its root within something we personally experienced in the past that we can actively heal, or if you are ready to explore coaching or therapy for the first time.    I had this extremely interesting conversation with Johanna Lynn who is the Founder of The Family Imprint Institute Training and who has over 15 years of experience in this modalities since becoming certified in them with The Family Constellations Institute and The inherited Trauma Institute.  Before focusing on Inherited Trauma she was a Clinical Hypnotherapist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotherapist and she has a Masters in Neurolinguistics Programing.   On this episode we spoke about the history of Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations, and why and how it works. We also spoke in detail about one of her expertise, how to use family constellations when healing money issues and why we can't save money or we can't stop spending.  Is this fear or anxiety mine? Or where does it come from? We talked about how despite us trying to avoid family sometimes, there is no avoiding .. epigenetically, biogenetically we carry our family with us..and hence, the importance of staying curious versus furious and how to successfully navigate this important territory.   You can learn more about Johanna Lynn and find her courses at johannalynn.ca or on social media @thefamilyimprint_institute   I truly loved this episode and if you loved it too, please do me a favor and share it with a friend or colleague or anyone who you think will find it helpful to simply help us in our quest to help others to feel better, do better and be better and HealIN to achieve in every area of their lives. 

In the last few episodes of the HealIN Podcast, we start to understand the relationship with how our life experiences and traumas can affect our physical health, and in this episode, we expand the conversation to how nutrition and mindfulness can affect it too.  I had a great conversation with Dr. Basma Faris who was my OBGYN here in NYC and we talked about her journey to include a nutritional lense into her OBGYN practice, and why there is sadly so little emphasis on the importance of nutrition in medical training. We discussed the importance of certain foods to support different stages in our lives, and particular foods that we can decrease in our lives to prevent the formation of fibroids or the hardening of our arteries.  We talked about the importance of understanding the barriers to change in the adoption of better eating habits before knowing how to support someone and she shared her personal journey into mindfulness and how this has transformed her to the person and excellent physician that she is today. More importantly, she shared how she is now merging her two passions as the Founder of  PollyPrepMD, supporting women with PCOS! You can learn more about Dr. Basma Faris on her website at www.pollyprepmd.com and on social media at @drbasmafaris or @pollyprep or Dr. Basma Faris on LinkedIN.

In this episode, we talked about her journey into incorporating the effects of trauma and mental health into her pediatrics practice and her passion for treating the whole person holistically. She explained how so many headaches, and tummy aches are caused by emotional and mental health issues, and we had a comprehensive discussion on how she treats them.  We discussed the biggest factor affecting children and teens these days and what to do about it, and why it was important for her as a pediatrician to also prioritize her wellness in many ways, including  working with a professional coach and prioritizing living as her most authentic self through her own healing and growth. 

This is a fascinating discussion with clinical Cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Fisher, in which he shares the struggles that arise from the rigorous medical school education and practice and shares with us how getting support and working with positive psychology, mindfulness, compassion, and many other practices, especially mindset work - using the  awareness of our thoughts and how they affect our feelings and actions - helped him to to become more present, productive, and fulfilled physician and person. This initially self-directed work led him to become a recognized well-being leader, to write his upcoming book "One Heart, A Cardiologist Guide to Healing, Health and Happiness," and established him as the head of a wellness program in his institution. His transformational programs have helped hundreds of leaders.  Order his book at www.justoneheartbook.com and learn more about Dr. Fisher by following him at @happyheartmd on Instagram and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd.

I had an educational and fascinating discussion with Dr. Arielle Schwartz about her journey into the amazing work that she is doing today, which included the trauma experienced as a result of being the child of a healthy divorce, and how living in two households impacted her psychologically and psychologically.  She explained how we store trauma in the connective tissues, the fascia, how this affects our bodies, and how this leads to headaches, migraines and chronic pain. She shared the why and how therapeutic yoga works and how the poses and breathing truly helps with healing our bodies from whatever we have experienced in the past. We talked about why EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which it was the first time that I learned this, and why vagus nerve exercises should be part of our daily self care routine! Dr. Schwartz, is a psychologist, an internationally sought-out teacher, a yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma. She is the author of six books, including EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery that I just finished reading and loved. You can find and learn more about Dr. Schwartz on her webside at www.drarielleschwartz.com on Facebook or on YouTube where she has many recordings of her yoga practice and more. Please look into her upcoming Vagus Nerve Course in August of 2023!   I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did, and if you did, please share it, and rate it to help me and my guest inspire as many people as possible to do this work.

Episode 100th is celebrated by having a very special guest for me, one of my most active and favorite clients, my beloved husband of 10 years, Dr. Paul Haser.  We talked about his path into self growth, why it is hard for medical professionals to get support,  all the areas where coaching has been very valuable to him, and all the key take-aways!  We also shared some insights and wisdom on why I and anyone who knows him, considers him an amazing husband, father, friend and doctor. 

I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Aimie Apigian, who is a physician turned trauma expert and who explained, at a deeper physiological level, what happens to our bodies when we experience trauma and share with us what I consider is a complete and comprehensive (mind and body) approach to healing trauma. We talked about her journey from medicine to trauma healing, we discussed what trauma is, the differences between a stress response and a trauma response, how experiencing trauma affects our entire metabolism, digestive systems, our lungs, and cardiovascular system, and her approach of the 3 essential pillars to addressing and treating trauma.  You can learn more about Dr. Aimie her work, her 21 Day journey program, her certification courses and her upcoming Biology of Trauma Summit being held this coming August 2023 on her website at www.traumahealingaccelerated.com ,  On all podcast platforms at The Biology of Trauma Podcast, and on Instagram at @draimie.

I had a fascinating conversation with Performance Coach and expert in Polyvagal Theory about what happens to our bodies and our nervous system on "game day" and how Polyvagal Theory can significantly help for us to help our bodies find our homeostasis "game zone" so that we can be at ease, be in stillness and in the present moment and "show up" to our kids and at work the way we want to show up!  We had a conversation about his program called the PlayZone, how it works and how it can be applied to any profession and at home as parents. You can find Michael Allison and his program for coaches, therapists, leades, educations and performers at www.theplayzone.com or at the Polyvagal Institute where he is also an instructor.       

I had a heartfelt conversation with Kaity, a Somatic Yoga Therapist and the Founder of Her Temple Healing, were we shared our personal experiences with yoga in general and with Somatic Yoga Therapy, after I experienced it first hand with her.  We discussed what yoga and what somatics is, how it works and the 4 fundamentals of it and how they worked for me.  It is a transformative healing practice that I hope you get curious about. To learn more about Kaity, please find her at www.hertemplehealing.com or on Instagram at @her.temple.healing. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate it and please share it with as many people as you can.    

This is the first episode on a new series on how to heal trauma from our bodies. I had a very informative conversation with Dr. Kim Di'Re, an experience and reputable  Somatic Experiencing Practitioner,  who explained to us in detail, why and how we retain trauma in our bodies, our anatomic nervous system activation and the cycle of a trauma response, e.g. what happens in our nervous system when we get triggered, and most importantly, the many techniques available, that we can practice, to slowly but surely heal our nervous system.  You can find Dr. Kim DiRe's work at www.kimdire.com and the drawing of the anatomic nervous system activation cycle on my Instagram account at healinwithkaren.    

This is a continuation of episode #94 explaining why you are not broken, but that it is extremely rare for anyone to escape childhood without forming any kind or limiting or negative thoughts or beliefs that are affecting our minds and our nervous system today and driving all we do or don't do. This is an explanation of what trauma is, what all the different types of trauma are and a case of why increasing awareness and working around it will change your life.     

I am super excited about this episode as it was requested by many to be shared with anyone that you know who is convinced that they don't need any help or any support at all. They may be right! I share the times when you can work on yourself on your own, and when is the time that I personally and professionally believe that you can significantly profit from investing time and resources into getting support and why!  You are not alone, I have been there too, before. I hope you find this episode helpful! Please let me know what you think and if I missed anything by DMing me in Linked In at Karen Millon or at @healinwithkaren on Instagram. If you liked this episode or found it helpful, please share it with anyone you know and please give me a review so that you can support me in trying to inspire as many people as possible. 

I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya about her journey of loss and how intuitive principles of resilience and positive psychology helped her heal and thrive through all her challenges by reframing and finding meaning from all her life experiences into thriving and post traumatic growth that drove her to study Positive Psychology and many other modalities and founding the Flourishing Center that has now trained over 1,600 coaches in over 53 countries and continue on a mission to spread the flourishing to as many individuals, organizations and schools as possible.  We discussed in detail the principles of positive psychology, which include managing our mind, our emotions, our physical bodies and our social/spiritual needs as well as the importance of incorporating our bodies in the healing and thriving process.  Healing and mindset are a crucial part of personal growth, but principles of Positive Psychology is what gets us to thrive and flow! It is when we incorporate it all, when we can take healing and thriving to the next level!  You can find Emiliya at the www.theflourishingcenter.com and @theflourishingcenter on IG.

We continued our conversation from episode 91 on Mindfulness and discuss how she incorporates CBT, (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), that is also practiced by most Certified coaches, as well as ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) skills in identifying our core values, with also looking deeply to our old wounds with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) when is applicable. And when this also incorporates a Mindfulness practice it can be very powerful and take healing to the next level, especially when it comes to saving our marriages or in healing after divorce.