“Sleep quality and duration should be considered a vital sign, as they are strong indicators of overall health and quality of life,”

As a society we’re sleeping less, in shorter durations, and it’s poor quality sleep. We’re dependent on sleep aides, now more than ever, which actually makes our sleep processed and artificial.

So why is this happening? Why are so many people not sleeping?

In this episode, you’ll hear me:

• Share my personal struggles with sleep

• Discuss all the ways poor sleep stresses our body

• How poor sleep affects our hormones

• List eight tips that help me get a better night’s sleep

You’ve probably heard about blue light, but just how much do you really know about it?

In this episode, I'm joined by James Swanwick, an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker, former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN, host of The James Swanwick Show podcast and the author of The 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge. He’s also a founder of Swanwick Sleep, a company dedicated to helping people get a restful night’s sleep by providing blue light protection glasses.

In this episode, you’ll hear James share:

• What exactly is blue light and how it affects our bodies

• How blue light blocking glasses work and what are the most effective kinds for helping with sleep

• What apps supplement blue light blocking glasses

• And he even shares his gold standard for getting a good night’s sleep

We're wrapping up our 4-part mini-series on taking a Functional Nutrition approach towards skin health

In this episode, I pull back the curtain and share:

• My decades-long struggle with chronic skin problems

• How I came to Functional Nutrition

• How reverse engineering my health helped me uncover the root causes of my chronic skin (and other health!) problems

• How you can learn this for yourself through my Beautiful Skin for Life Bootcamp program

When it comes to your chronic skin problem have you ever been advised to focus on repairing your gut health?

But what does that even mean? What does your gut health have to do with what’s going on with your skin? How are these things related?

In this episode, Part 3 of this 4-part mini-series on taking a Functional Nutrition approach towards skin health, we’ll explore something called a “Leaky Gut” and in doing so, hopefully, make the skin + gut connection.

You'll hear:

• What is a Leaky Gut

• How does a gut become "leaky" with a mini anatomy lesson

• The problems a leaky gut can cause

Contrary to popular belief, skincare doesn’t start at Sephora, nor does it start with Beautycounter. Skincare begins with what you’re feeding your body and what your body can with what you’re feeding it.

Because your diet and lifestyle habits - sleep, stress, and even the beauty products that you’re using -influence how your internal systems and organs in your body function - and your skin is the largest organ in your body.

In this episode, Part Two of this four-part mini-series on taking a Functional Nutrition approach towards skin health, we’ll examine four common mistakes that you’re making in your skincare and a better approach to take instead.

“I have cystic acne but my skin is super dry too.”

“Most of the time my skin is okay but I have breakouts around my cycle. I know its hormonal.”

“I have keratosis pilaris on my arms which is why I always wear long sleeves. I really want to be able to wear t-shirts and tank tops this summer.”

“I have eczema / psoriasis / rosacea, and none of the products I’ve tried has helped.

These are the kinds of things so many people have come to for looking for help with.

So in this episode, we tackle:

• The two types of skin problems we struggle with

• How even the best, safest products are only the first step in trying to address chronic skin problems

• How to take a functional approach toward resolving skin issues

Are you a Type A person who's always-on-the-go, crossing off *our* (because I’m one of ‘em 🙋🏻‍♀️) to-do lists and attached to your phone, tablet, or laptop - or maybe even all three at once?

Then when you start to shows signs of stress, like breakouts, fatigue and other health issues and you’re asked, “How’s your stress levels?”  you might not even realize that you're stressed...#amright? 👀

So we’re told that we have to slow down and take it easy, but neither comes naturally to us. In fact, it’s a learned behavior that we have to constantly and actively work on. 💆🏻‍♀️

In this episode, I'm sharing ten simple ways to slow down for Type-A people!

When you look for the root causes for illnesses and diseases and even skin problems like acne, eczema or even psoriasis, you always want look at one’s diet, their gut health, what kinds of toxins they’re exposed to, and the root cause of all root causes stress!

We can avoid foods that cause inflammation, avoid using products with harmful ingredients, but when we need stress relief we typically head straight to the spa for a massage. #AmIright

But there’s other types of “body work” and in this episode, we’re going to learn about CranialSacral therapy.

Prior to this episode I didn’t know what cranial sacral therapy was so we’re going to learn about it together.

So joining me to teach us about it is, Mindy Totten, a CranialSacral therapist who’s been practicing for the past 15 years.

In this episode, you’ll hear Mindy share:

• How she went from being an English and Humanities teacher to becoming a cranial sacral therapist

• What is cranial sacral therapy and how its different from other types of body work.

• Who it’s best for, how does it work, and even how to find a legit cranial sacral therapist and what to expect in your first appointment.

So much of what a cancer patient faces feel beyond their control. But there are some things can be done that will bring feelings of empowerment and support healing.

Back with us for her third and final episode this month is Katie Leadbetter of Clean Eating with Katie. In Part 3 of this four-part series, Katie speaks to those who are fighting cancer on how to bridge the gap between what doctors tell you, and what they don’t.

Katie also wrote a blog post titled, “What Will Be Your Catalyst for Change,” discusses “pink-washing” and why we don’t need more breast cancer awareness, but rather, breast health education and prevention.