EP 97: A Holistic Health Perspective On COVID-19 With Danielle Melanson

Danielle Melanson is a licensed acupuncturist in Portland Oregon. Danielle received her master’s degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of the American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM) and board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She has additional certification in Chinese herbal medicine and the ability to prescribe custom Chinese herbal formulas for her patients. She is also a member of the Oregon Association for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (OAAOM).

Danielle’s priority as a health care provider is to take the proper time to listen and establish a relationship with each one of her patients. She believes the journey to health is unique for each person, and that Acupuncture and Chinese herbs have the ability to heal on many different levels. With an open heart, in a supportive environment, her experience has taught her that every person can become more aware of their bodies and find a more optimal state of health through Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM.)

When not caring for patients, Danielle enjoys a lifestyle of hiking, skiing, mountain biking, boogie boarding and cooking with her son, Harry.

Connect with Danielle at:

Website: https://daniellemelanson.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellemelansonacupuncture/

What is Qi?

The Classical Chinese explanation is that energy (Qi) flows in channels (meridians) throughout the body and over its surfaces. The Chinese have identified 71 of these rivers of energy which is a basic energy map for all people. The meridians are often compared to a series of interconnected highways. Each of the major organs is associated with its own highway. Through this network, internal organs are connected to certain areas and parts of the body including the muscles, bones, joints, and other organs.

When the body is internally balanced and in harmony with the external environment, Qi flows smoothly through the highways to nourish the organs and tissues. If an obstruction occurs it causes a traffic jam, the Qi is disrupted and cannot flow properly or has to flow in the opposite direction. Just like a ten car pile up would stop the flow from one part of a city to the other, resulting in stress, delays and potentially accidents, the body’s innate balance is disrupted and disease (or dis-ease) results.

Acupuncture points are the specific points on the meridians where the Qi is both concentrated and accessible. Qi is engaged and flow is returned by inserting needles at specific points. As the body regains its natural balance and Qi flows freely, well-being and health return.

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EP 96: How To Physically & Energetically Ground, Connect & Align Yourself

In today's episode I share a holistic perspective on how you can perceive your time in quarantine and the coronavirus. How to transmute our fears into love, abundance and creativity.

I talk about how you can begin to build trust both your body and with your own inner voice again with some practical daily embodiment practices and journaling.

This will help you connect with yourself which spills into connecting with others. Alignment can only happen when we begin to examine what no longer serves us in our lives on an individual level first and then as a collective. In other words, you have to get clear on you first.

In part two I go into more of the physical ways you can support your body’s natural immune response by supporting your metabolism.

References mentioned in this episode:

The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter

By McKeown, Patrick

Living Libations sunlight protocol:

http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/nadine-artemis-on-wise-interaction-with-the-sun

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EP 95: Stepping Into 5D Consciousness with Rosanne Grace

As an Intuitive Holistic lifestyle coach specializing in inner child integration and Quantum healing hypnosis practitioner she’s been able to support her clients heal the root cause of their stories (whether it be in this lifetime or another).

According to Rosanne, ascension does not have to be so challenging...

Having experienced overwhelming pain and suffering on her journey of awakening, she realized that there had to be a better way. An easier more graceful way. This is her purpose here.

Rosanne’s mission is to support the individual and collective in their healing and ascension. As an Ascension Advisor and Metaphysical Coach Rosanne has successfully connected and guided thousands of clients to their higher self, inner child, divine intelligence of the physical body and their true Source Consciousness to facilitate the deepest, easiest and most graceful healing and integration possible.

Connect with Rosanne at:

Website: https://www.rosannegrace.com/
Instagram: Instagram@rosanne.grace
Facebook: Facebook@rosanne.grace.home

In This Episode we talk about:

• What is 5th dimensional consciousness

• How are perception of ourselves impacts and directly influences our external world

• What you can do right now to bring yourself out of fear and into love, compassion and creativity

• How play and imagination can lead you to becoming more innovative, calm and grounded.

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EP 94: Anti-Factory Farm Shopping With Eugene Trufkin

Eugene Trufkin was born and raised on an off-grid biodynamic farm in Ukraine and is the author of "Anti-Factory Farm Shopping Guide". He graduated from the University of California, Irvine and is a Chek Trained Professional. He currently operates www.trufkinathletics.com

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In this Episode we discuss:

• The difference between free-range, cage free and pastured eggs.

• The difference between factory, organic and biodynamic farming methods.

• What is 100% grass fed beef and what that environment looks like.

• The implications for our health and environment if we depend only on factory farmed foods, including vegan stand in’s like the Impossible Burger and The Beyond Burger.

• How to easily decrease your toxic load by changing your food quality.

• Why buying organic is not more expensive than buying conventional.

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References mentioned in this episode:

• “Nutrition, The Dirt Facts”, by Paul Chek

• The Meat Racket, by Christopher Leonard

• Scan your produce, on demand, and it’ll provide you with the exact nutrient profile of that specific crop.
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• TeakOrigin

EP 93: Natural Foods Entrepreneurship & Motherhood With Junea Rocha

Junea Rocha is the Co-founder and CMO of Brazi Bites. Junea Rocha moved to the US in 2005 after graduating from college in Civil Engineering and took a job in construction management in Portland, Oregon.

She rose through the ranks quickly, and hit a career-high, yet she felt unfulfilled. It would have been easy for Junea to lean into the success she found in engineering, but when she imagined her future she knew she would rather reflect on taking a risk and following her dream than looking back with regret by playing it safe and sticking with a career she wasn’t passionate about.

Not having any immediate background in the culinary or food space, Junea’s love and passion for her homeland ignited an idea. In 2010, she and her husband started Brazi Bites with the hopes that Americans would love Brazilian Cheese Bread (“Pão de queijo”) as much as they did.

In 2015, Junea and Cameron had the opportunity to pitch Brazi Bites on ABC’s Shark Tank. 9 million viewers watched the Sharks fall in love. Brazi Bites sold out nationwide and became a freezer aisle must-have in grocery stores across the country.

Shark Tank Episode

Website: www.brazibites.com

instagram: @brazi_bites

In this episode we talk about:

• What Brazilian cheese is and the culture that’s been built around it.

• Junea shares her experience of going from knowing nothing about the natural food industry to owning a successful natural food business called Brazi Bites.

• What inspired Junea to bring Brazilian cheese bread to the US.

• What it’s like to be a female founder and a mother at the same time.

• Why great products don’t always make it and how you can support them.

• Junea’s experience on Shark Tank.

• How Junea creates a successful self care practice amidst her career as a company founder, CMO and a mother.

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EP 86: How To Represent Yourself Courageously With Jator Pierre

Jator Pierre is a self proclaimed eternal seeker, vlogger, comic-obsessed hockey player, and a certified lifestyle & wellness coach. He’s dedicated to helping is clients understand all the parts of themselves because he believes it’s only through curiosity and self understanding that you can make the best choices for your health and well-being to truly thrive.

About Jator

Jator has been in the practice of transforming lives since 1999. Using a vast toolbox of modalities to bring about lasting change in his clients his work primarily focuses on emotional trauma, auto-immune issues, digestive disorders, chronic stress, and chronic pain.

He is passionate about seeing the bigger picture and how that trickles down to the underlying mechanisms which lead to pathology, disease, and symptoms.

His purpose is to help people examine and understand not only how the body functions but how each physical symptom correlates to and is expressive of underlying mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns.

Jator works globally through Skype and in person in Denmark and his clientele is usually those searching for answers after working with many other healthcare professionals.

He is a facilitator for you to uncover your way and a teammate to help you follow that path to your ultimate self expression.

Connect with Jator at:

Website: https://wehlc.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorewithjator/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jatorpierrewehlc/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ExploreWithJator

Restore Sixty: https://jatorpierre.simplero.com/page/123166-restore-sixty-waitlist

In this episode we talk about:

• How your relationship with others uncovers deep truths about yourself.

• Co-dependency and how we can learn to reflect what’s going on within .

• The pitfalls of fitting in.

• How we can lose ourself in self help.

• How to represent yourself authentically.

• What trigger points represent and symbolize for us.

Episode 85: Just Be Your Own Guru With Rosanne Grace

Rosanne’s fathers death was a catalyst for her awakening. Then during a divorce and multimillion dollar lawsuit she realized she had two choices, heal or die. Rosanne chose to heal and became her own healer allowing her to learn from some of the best.

As an Intuitive Holistic lifestyle coach specializing in inner child integration and Quantum healing hypnosis practitioner she’s been able to support her clients heal the root cause of their stories (whether it be in this lifetime or another).

According to Rosanne, ascension does not have to be so challenging...

Having experienced overwhelming pain and suffering on her journey of awakening, she realized that there had to be a better way. An easier more graceful way. This is her purpose here.

Rosanne’s mission is to support the individual and collective in their healing and ascension. As an Ascension Advisor and Metaphysical Coach Rosanne has successfully connected and guided thousands of clients to their higher self, inner child, divine intelligence of the physical body and their true Source Consciousness to facilitate the deepest, easiest and most graceful healing and integration possible.

Connect with Rosanne at:

Website: https://www.rosannegrace.com/
Instagram: Instagram@rosanne.grace
Facebook: Facebook@rosanne.grace.home

Sedona Retreat: https://www.rosannegrace.com/e-v-e-n-t-s

In this episode we talk about:

• False spirituality - what that means and how we can create awareness

• Inner child work - how to listening to your inner children can help you heal

• Beliefs around suffering - unconscious behaviors and the influence they have

• How energy doesn’t lie - acknowledging the things we cannot logically explain or see

• How to be radically responsible - what do you want to create and what are you serving

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References Mentioned in this episode:

Doloras Cannon

“Hidden Messages In Water”, by Dr. Emoto

EP 84: Embodying The Masculine & Feminine With Maddy Moon

Maddy Moon is a guiding force for women who want to stop over-thinking their lives away and live with more trust, intuition and flow.

Maddy uses her knowledge of the Feminine and Masculine to help women of all ages learn how to build confidence in their voices, feel ALL of their feelings, let go of control in their day-to-day lives and enjoy an abundance of self-worth.

Her mission is to help you unify all the pieces that make you you including your Feminine with your Masculine, Light with your Dark, Introvert with your Extrovert and your Doing with your Being.

Through transformational experiences such as coaching, shadow work, spiritual healing, polarity, and Feminine // Masculine embodiment, Maddy will warmly guide you to see the beauty of what exists right now in this wildly beautiful and messy thing we call life.

Her work and story has been featured in hundreds of podcasts as well as various publications such as The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Thought Catalog, Nylon Magazine, The Daily Mail, Vice, Greatist, Men’s Health, PEOPLE and ABC News Nightline.

Through her weekly podcast Mind Body Musings, online platform MaddyMoon.com and ongoing retreats, thousands have come to self-reclamation and feminine embodiment.

In this episode we talk about:

• What is a healthy expression of feminine and masculine as opposed to an unhealthy expression

• Why embodying and embracing your shadow parts can be extremely healing

• What authentic self care is and we discuss what it means to us

• How true self care is about learning how to take good care of yourself

• Setting healthy boundaries so you have enough energy to be you

Connect with Maddy at:

Website: https://maddymoon.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madelynmoon/

Podcast: https://maddymoon.com/podcasts/

Retreats: https://maddymoon.com/events/

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

David Deida

The Way Of The Superior Man

John Wineland

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EP 83: Primal Birthing With Kimberly Nelli

Kimberly realized she knew nothing about pregnancy, childbirth, mothering and relationships when she became pregnant with her first born (2008). She considered herself a pretty educated woman during this time holding two degrees, one in communications and one in veterinary technology, she was running her own business in a gym, as a personal trainer and very informed about holistic lifestyle including: movement, sleep, food, water, stress, rest, thoughts, emotions, modern medicine…

She thought she was going to give birth with a doctor at the hospital like all the other women. Kimberly didn’t even know what a midwife was or the business of being born. Her partner at the time was encouraging her to explore natural birth outside of the hospital. Kimberly was unsure if this was safe and she had her mother’s and grandmother’s birth stories imprinted in her conscious and subconscious.

Kimberly’s mother gave birth to four live babies in which three were premature and two of the three passed away shortly after birth. She was the 4th and her mom was going to try for a vbac (vaginal birth after cesarean section). It ended up in an emergency c-section. Thus all four births were traumatic and scary for her mother and for her.

Because Kimberly was into holistic living, she was open to exploring birth centers and other options for childbirth besides the hospital. Little did she know that a birthing center was only a few miles away. Kimberly took a tour there and spoke to the midwives and that was it…she knew instantly that she wanted to birth there and she also enrolled into midwifery school at the same birth center.

What a blessing. During her first pregnancy, she had the opportunity to attend over 20 births. Birth became magical, beautiful, and mystical. Kimberly loved every birth and by the time she was 40 weeks, she was so excited to give birth and see how it feels!

At exactly 40 weeks Kimberly gave birth to her first born, in the warm water. It was the most empowering and difficult moment in her life. After she gave birth she looked back at her husband and said, we are not having seven of these and at the same time she was in deep bliss…the most present she’s have ever been.

Connect With Kimberly:

https://pregnancychildbirthourfuture.com/

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EP79: Harnessing The Energy Of Spring With Danielle Melanson

Danielle received her master’s degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

She’s a member of the American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM) and board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

She has additional certifications in Chinese herbal medicine and the ability to prescribe custom Chinese herbal formulas for her patients in Portland, Oregon.

When not caring for patients, Danielle enjoys a lifestyle of hiking, skiing, mountain biking, boogie boarding and cooking with her son, Harry.

Connect with Danielle at:

http://www.daniellemelanson.com/

In this episode Danielle and I talk about:

• How acupuncture works

• How acupuncture can aid in allergy relief

• What organs are related to springtime (according to Chinese Medicine) and why

• What spring represents from a Chinese Medicine perspective

• What we should be focusing on in the springtime for better health

• Strategies for letting go of the energy of winter and stepping into spring

EP78: Cultivating Courageous Habits With Kate Swoboda

Kate Swoboda is creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification at TeamCLCC.com and author of The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life. She helps individuals, teams, and companies see where old, fear-based habits have kept people stuck or started to limit what’s possible for an organization, and then start creating more courageous lives by getting into “the courage habit,” a four-part process for behavioral and organizational change.

Kate has appeared in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, Business Insider, and more, and her website Your Courageous Life was named a top-50 blog for happiness by Greatist.

She’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.

What The Courage Habit is:

• How we can recognize these fear patterns

• How we can better recognize fear;

• Ways that we can unhook from old fear-based habits;

• How to practice the four parts of it in doable ways in our lives.

Connect with Kate:

Website :: https://www.yourcourageouslife.com

Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/katecourageous

FaceBook :: https://www.facebook.com/YourCourageousLife

Community :: https://TeamCLCC.com 

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In this episode we talk about:

• How you can start making more progress on your goals

• Steps toward feeling more confident even when making difficult decisions

• Develop more emotional resilience: by understanding how habits work

• How fear patterns can keep you in a continuous feedback loop of unhealthy habits

• Four fear patterns that most people fall under and go unnoticed

• How habits are formed in the brain

• How any habit can be broken and changed for the better

• How community plays an important part in reflecting back to us what goes unseen

The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life

By Kate Swoboda

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