The Real Mind Body Connection: Polyvagal Theory & How to get out of chronic stess with Gail Willmore

We wrap up this incredible season 7 with a brief recap of all of our amazing guests and topics. And we explore depression, anxiety, and why love, kindness, and self-compassion are the integral ingredients to healing. Kendra interviews me about my own struggles and triumphs with a lifelong challenges with anxiety, depression, and emotional eating, and I share how I have worked through them myself. I also share my top recommendations from my clients dealing with the same. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

Counselor Gail Willmore and I tackle the issue of reducing our stress and explore how the vagus nerve may be the key to unlocking the mind-body connection. We know stress is a major issue in health, healing, and happiness, and yet when your doctor says "just reduce your stress!" what the heck can you actually do about that? Turns out polyvagal theory may be just the key to unlocking the actual physiologic reality to healing trauma; embodying our emotions; and how we can live from the experience of connection, belonging, and love to do just that: be less stressed and still live full busy kick ass lives. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

Dr. Kate Lund and I discussed building resilience for children and families. In this challenging time of transitioning out of the lockdowns of Covid, many families are working out how to get back to normal, and discovering normal is not what it used to be. Dr. Lund shares with us her best resources for how to support your children and yourself to navigate challenging circumstances, making major life decisions on how to tune into your own unique context to maximize your individual potential in life. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

In this episode, we get to nerd out with a dear friend and client of mine, Liz Lund. Liz shares her own story of healing with polycystic ovarian syndrome, multiple joint injuries and subsequent surgeries, her and her husband's journey with infertility and what it took to create their family of five, all the while living a paleo based gluten-free life. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

We have the pleasure of talking with Siri Wieringa, energy healing practitioner and reader of Human Design charts. Do you feel like you are an empath or highly sensitive person? Do you have the experience of feeling everyone around you or feel like you're easily influenced by their thoughts, ideas, or energy? Then this episode is for you! Human design is an incredible system that has you see how you may have specific empathic tendencies and sensitivities to others, and helps you understand where you are more solid in trusting yourself and where you can work on boundaries and relating to others. We also dive into the healing power of nature and how Siri chose to change careers after a traumatic brain injury and step fully into practicing the healing arts to empower others to live their best lives. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

We talk to Jason Dombrow about his new children's book about death and grief. How do we talk to our children about what they're dealing with and going through when a loved one dies or when they're dealing with grief? Meet Jason, meet his real life dog Disco who plays Jason in the book and join us for the conversation. Get all the show notes and more at SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

We talk with my personal physician and mentor of 17 years, Dr. Dick Thom. Dr. Thom was one of my very first professors in naturopathic medical school, and I was hooked from the start. Together, in this episode, we explore the core foundations of what it takes to heal, to rebuild health, and discuss some of the fundamental aspects of what has caused our epidemic of poor health and disease in the modern world. From core naturopathic philosophy, to right here and now actions you can take to increase your vitality and resilience to heal and prevent illness, Dr. Thom and I are gonna talk about it all! See all the show notes and more at SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

Dr. Dennis Godby shares about his third walk across the United States. This time to promote awareness of health equity: that all people of all races, class, genders, and economic status have access to just. fair, safe, and highly effective medical care and health education. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

I have the privilege to interview my longtime coach and mentor Jeff Willmore on how do we transform the current reality of running a business, avoiding burnout, and making a living making our life, versus sacrificing our life for making a living. For all the shownotes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.

We talk all things mushrooms with ethno-micologist Jeff Chilton, the forgotten food, edible non-psychedelic mushrooms are packed with nutrition, antioxidants, immune-boosting, cancer fighting compounds that according to Jeff (and me!) should be a part of our daily diet. To be honest, there wasn't a big focus on medicinal mushrooms in med school, so I jumped at the opportunity to pick the brain of a guy with over 50 years of experience in the mushroom industry. For all the show notes and more, visit SarahMarshallND.com/podcast.