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Jennifer Nathanson is a functional medicine provider and parenting coach. She firmly believes feeling confident in parenting impacts our overall well-being by decreasing/removing one of our main stressors – self doubt as a parent. This episode focuses on the struggles of parenting and more specifically, the struggles of parenting children who are neurodivergent or sensitive. Download and listen here or find wherever you get podcasts. Key Topics: Components of the Nurtured Heart approach …

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health innovator and founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC, dedicated to reshaping mental health perceptions and treatments. Through her Neurotastic Brain Formulas and trademarked BrainBehaviorReset® method, she provides science-backed holistic therapies to tackle conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, OCD and PANS/PANDAS. Author of three books including “It’s Gonna be OK!”, and podcast host of It’s Gonna be OK!: Science-Backed Solutions …

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Here’s my controversial opinion: we don’t need more mental health awareness. We need more tools to get well and stay well. We need practitioners willing to think outside the box, beyond the checklists and low-efficacy treatments.  At 18, I met the criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. When I was diagnosed, I experienced symptoms of hypomania and mania that impaired functioning for weeks at a time, …

Naketa Ren Thigpen is the world’s number one Balance and Relationship Advisor. With a groundbreaking approach that merges psychotherapy, trauma expertise, and relationship wisdom, Naketa challenges norms and ignites transformative change. She’s the host of the Balance Boldly Podcast and author of “Selfish: Permission to Pause.” This episode covers the complex topic of managing your stress so that you can better show up for your relationships. Naketa provides many inspirational, realistic, and practical …

Dr. Tabatha Barber, known as The Gutsy Gynecologist, has dedicated her life to giving women a voice and a choice when it comes to their health and well-being. Overcoming struggles as a young girl, including self-esteem challenges and the hurdles of being a high school dropout and teenage mother, she emerged as a successful physician through faith and perseverance. Her unwavering commitment to women’s health is evident through her triple board certifications in …

Yep, I’ve been there. I’ve ridden the insanity train with my health, trying to feel better (with all the quick fixes)–but always getting the same result.  Does the following scenario sound familiar to you? You go to your health provider, because you know something is off. You don’t feel like yourself. You get the lab tests. The report? Everything is “fine.” You may hear something like, “You’re a mom with young kids. It’s …

I would love to partner with you! As a survivor of bipolar disorder, I found that it takes many tools to manage the symptoms of chronic illness. One tool I believe strongly in is kitchen therapy. What you eat can directly impact your mental health and well-being. Likewise, your relationship with food and mindset toward it can impact your mental health and well-being. Individualization is key, and like I always say, “a body …

22 years ago, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (or manic depressive illness, as they called it back then) based on a set of symptoms, according to the DSM and failure to respond well to SSRI medication. My identity is not in my diagnosis, and neither is yours. Imagine if we also said, “I am depression,” “I am anxiety,” “I am Hashimoto’s,” or “I am diabetes.” The phrasing doesn’t work for any other …

What’s Behind Your Anxiety? If you struggle with anxiety or depression, you know it affects your entire life. It affects how you move (or don’t move), your concentration, your ability to sleep, your interactions with others, even your bathroom habits. Because anxiety is on the rise, and won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, I want to share some little-known triggers for anxiety that you may not be hearing about from anyone else!Like everything …

This little girl didn’t know that in 10 years she would wish for death. She loved her family, her new siblings, and Jesus, too. Much like the Tom Petty song, she was about to take a free fall – down the path of a broken brain. She was a preacher’s daughter with a genetic disposition to mental illness. Add on to that various health issues like chronic ear infections, asthma, allergy shots, antibiotics …

I was medicated for bipolar disorder for 18 years. Ten years ago, I went off anti-psychotic medication. Eight years ago, I weaned off my remaining medication, an SSRI antidepressant. Today, I am mentally healthier than I’ve ever been, particularly in the last five years, since I have been (mostly) gluten free and eat a lower carbohydrate diet. In fact, my husband would agree that since I changed my eating habits, there has been …

To all my hard-working, go-getting, goal-digging female friends: Oh, how I wish I could sit you down and tell you how amazing you are and how hard your body works for you to keep you alive. How I wish you could truly see yourself the way I do. I would tell you to take a big deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. I would remind you that your …