Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 3 Episode 8: Today's is special Meet Your Herbs episode, when I introduce you to another of my favorite plant friends. Since this season's theme is Get Moving, this is an herb that will help you repair your injured bits if you've gotten moving a bit too much. She's blowsy, spiny, voluptuous, a bit of a misunderstood outcast. Meet controversial Comfrey- poor thing, it's not her fault. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 3 Episode 4:: Today’s episode is a special one. It’s a Meet Your Herbs episode, because I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite friends- Solomon’s Seal. Here's the thing: If hydration is life, damage causes dryness. Stuck, constricted, restricted, uncomfortable, lingering dryness can make joints crack repeatedly, restrict our physical and emotional resilience and recovery, reduce circulation and healing, and impinge on our ability to shift between movements and from stillness to movement. Solomon's Seal root slowly, gently, gets down into the stuck dryness and goes to work. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 3 Episode 3:: It can be really helpful to talk about who exactly needs pelvic floor support, because there's classic pelvic floor dysfunction issues, but there's also less obvious, or less common things that come up with less optimal pelvic floor positioning and support as well. So, while you might not actually have full blown pelvic floor dysfunction, a lot of things including the last year of the pandemic has been pushing people over the edge into less common pelvic floor issues. So that's we’re going to talk about today so you can figure out whether or not that means you.| Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 3 Episode 2:: This season I’m talking about How to Get Moving. Today’s episode is about intentional conveniences and inconveniences- I introduced these back in season 1, and I’m going to share more of my favorite tips, but also ways that you can come up with your own, personal ones that are perfectly personalized for you! | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 3 Episode 1:: I was in my 20’s, or maybe even my early 30’s, before I discovered that ‘hypermobility’ is a thing. Before that, I just knew that my ankles and shoulders would come apart at inopportune times, and that while I was quite un-athletic in gym class I could beat the gymnasts in the sit-n-reach! Welcome to my hypermobility story. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 11:: Next week, I'm going to launch a free challenge all about breathing better. So this week, I want to teach you a tiny step about breathing, so that when you take the challenge you'll know exactly what you're working towards.

Today I'm going to teach you how to breathe with your rib cage. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 10:: What happens if you don't breathe well? Now, if you don't breathe at all, you're going to pass out! If you breathe super shallowly, you're going to hyperventilate. But in between the extreme of not breathing enough and being a perfect breather, there's a lot of room for error, and there's a lot of room for interpretation, and most of us fall somewhere in there. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 9:: Breathing helps everything. Last week I talked about having a holistic perspective to health and wellness and how the foot bone is connected to the head bone, and how it's not just a cliché to say that everything is connected. Breathing helps everything in your body. But what does this have to do with your pelvic floor? | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 8:: A holistic perspective to health and wellness is kind of a buzzword, it's becoming a bit of a cliché, but when I talk about this, I really mean it. What does it look like to me, what would that look like for you in your own body? Let’s dig into what it actually means and what it actually looks like to have a holistic perspective to your health and wellness. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 7:: Today,  I'm going over some herbal remedies that can help the same head and neck pain issues. Some are easy, some don't taste good, but all have had good success helping me out of my own pain! | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 6:: If you've ever experienced TMJ, tongue tie, or headaches coming from your face and neck tension, you know what I'm talking about. The best graphic I ever saw of it showed the tension lines going over the jaw and coming out of the eyeballs like lightning. That was perfect to me. 

Today I'm going to talk to you about some of the factors that contribute to exacerbating your discomfort, that you probably have some control over. I'm also going to talk about some stretches and moves, that might help you be less uncomfortable when you have an episode. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Season 2 Episode 5:: Emotional stress, postural stress, and exercise stress create different kinds of work in your body, and all of them can impact your pelvic floor. I want to normalize talking about this, and also talking about the fact that you don’t have to live with it. Just getting by isn’t good enough for me. Let’s improve your stress responses, and your pelvic floor function, and live the fullest life you can.| Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Today's episode comes from a recent conversation I had about how we all have Living Pains, and that we tend to just accept them instead of doing the hard work to move past them because so many other things are on fire in front of us already. We often put our aches and pains and not-quite-healed places back into service of our regular lives, at least until a crisis point where we can't go on just getting by. When you're ready to face your Living Pains is where I come in, and I've got your back. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

It's time for me to introduce myself again, and I've been thinking about what to say. There’s lots of things to know about me... When it comes to working with me, there’s another big NOT to understand right away: I'm No Guru! What do I mean, and what does it mean for working with me? Find out, and also find out about our Spring 2021 theme coming up soon- STRESS. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

I have seen a HUGE trend lately. Yes, it’s tied to the great you-know-what mess of 2020, but it’s causing problems that we can reverse. The problem is sitting, and the trend is a clear line between increased butt-time and increased nose dives over the edge into full-blown Pelvic Floor problems. What does this look like? Can you do anything about it? I'll discuss on today's episode. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Here's my first mailbag episode! Inquiring minds want to know- what does wearing flatter, and thinner, shoes do for your feet and the rest of your body? Listen in to find out! It's simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Lots of people WANT to meditate, but not all are successful. Today I'm sharing my own secret to actually meditating, instead of just wanting to. I also describe the benefits of floor sitting as an Intentional Convenience. It's simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Today's episode brings you two tips. First, an Intentional Inconvenience to get more movement while you're in your home- move frequently used items to different parts of your home. Second, a Lifestyle tip describing silicone toe spreaders, and the practice of easing into them with yoga socks and short practice stints. They're simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Today I bring you TWO Intentional Conveniences! Linking familiar, common actions that you do routinely in your day to additional actions is a great place to start building new habits. And simple gait changes while you're out walking gives your body more texture to build strength and resiliency. They're simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

It can be SO hard to drink more water, especially when you don't like how it tastes. Here are some making and flavoring ideas from me, straight from my herbalism skills! It's simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more. | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Intentional Conveniences and Intentional Inconveniences are two of the primary types of lifestying tips I'll be sharing in this podcast- but what exactly are they? Simply, they're ways to make things easier or harder for you, so that it's easier or harder for you to do them! When it comes to influencing new habits, these are my favorite ways to support change. They're simple, and that's the point. Join me at paulasherbals.com for more.  | Holistic Lifestyling with Paula Billig

Welcome to the Holistic Lifestyling trailer, previewing my show about my whole body approach to living with more ease and grace!

I’m Paula Billig, your Holistic Lifestyling host, coach of the Your Pelvic Matters pelvic floor training program, and creator of the Foot to Forehead Fix, my signature program for your whole body wellness.

Holistic Lifestyling is all about setting up your normal, day to day life so that you can practice whole body wellness without extra exercise time.

In today’s episode I’ll tell you about the Your Pelvic Matters program that I teach, and give you a preview about the main topics this show will cover- the Intentional Conveniences and Intentional Inconveniences you can use to change or add to your daily routines.