A Woman Worth Healing: An Autoimmune Healing Journey

Are you suffering from an autoimmune disease?

You are trying to heal from it but it is so difficult for you to make hard or even simple lifestyle changes in your healing journey?

You are not alone!

If you try to jump in headfirst without preparing yourself for these changes, you are bound to struggle with it.

The key to doing hard things is to align your mindset to the success of these lifestyle changes. If you don’t believe you can do it or you don’t believe you can be a healthy person, you will prove yourself right every time.

Listen to today’s episode with guest, Mesha McKittrick to learn how you can change your mindset to help you become successful in achieving your health goals.

Mesha is a mindset coach and creator of the podcast, Mindset Check. Through her brand My Friend Mesha, she is a Coach, Social Influencer and Public Speaker. Her passion is teaching people that they have more power than think they do.

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Before you dive into this episode, I just want to warn you, that you may become hungry while listening to this episode with our guest, Susie Miles.

Since food is medicine, I asked Susie to come on the show to give us ideas and pointers for navigating the kitchen.

We have so much stress in our lives, adding one more thing, like cooking to our to-do list can increase our stress levels and that is the last thing we need because stress is what helped us get sick in the first place.

The intention of this episode is to alleviate this stress and give you ideas to make your experience in the kitchen less overwhelming and so delicious!

If you are new at cooking, we highly recommend starting with simple meals until you get the hang of it.

Susie Miles lives in Northern Virginia with her husband & two children. She is the host of the 'Cooking and Convos’ podcast.

Susie has also written a children’s book (published in 2021) ‘My Friend, the Light’. The book is available online at Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes and Noble. She’s in the process of writing her 2nd book in the ‘My Friend’ series.

Susie has been so gracious to offer her kitchen tool list and her recipe for turkey sausage pasta with peppers & onions to us.

**Note: If you are on an anti-inflammatory diet or meatless diet, you will need to find alternatives for certain ingredients in Susie’s recipe. For example, use gluten-free pasta or spaghetti squash as an alternative to regular pasta.

When it comes to eating for enjoyment and to nourish your body, it is all about getting creative and finding alternative ingredients that support your mind, body, & soul.

Susie’s Offerings

Living with an autoimmune disease, do you feel like your body hates you or is working against you?

I’ve had autoimmune clients say…

“Why does my body hate me? It’s literally attacking me from the inside!” or

“It’s a struggle just to do normal things.” or

“My body is falling apart on me.”

Have you ever felt this way? 

In this unscripted inspired action episode, I address these very thoughts my clients have expressed to me.

I flip the script to show you a different reality of the relationship you can have with your autoimmune disease.

What if your body wasn’t working against you? What if it was trying to work for you but you keep getting in its way?

How would it feel if you had a loving, vibrant relationship with your autoimmune disease?

Listen to today’s episode to see my take on autoimmune disease and how you can think differently.

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Do you feel there are some blockages in your body that are stopping the flow of your natural healing mechanism?

Are you even aware if there are blockages that are keeping you stuck in your healing process?

Have you tried everything your doctor has told you to do but you don’t seem to be getting better or are you trading one symptom for another?

Listen to this episode with my guest, Rachel Brumberger to see if these healing tools, she offers can help you move the needle forward in your health. (pun intended)

Rachel Brumberger is a master acupuncturist, herbalist, Chinese nutritional therapy practitioner, and wellness coach. She specializes in women's health, digestive disorders, and mental health conditions. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes, hosts the healing and wellbeing podcast, UnscRxipted, and is an adjunct and clinical faculty member at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. Rachel has been featured in publications and received rewards for her work in the healing space.

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Do you feel like life is a constant struggle for you?

Do you find yourself putting yourself last?

Do you push through your pain and fatigue?

Or do you get creative and find ways to give yourself what you need & also take care of your responsibilities and stay true to your promises?

For this week‘s episode, this is exactly what I had to do. I had to get creative and allow myself the grace to show up as my authentic self in the moment.

I’m on a healing journey just like all of you. I want to be an example for you all, to show you what it means to fully take care of yourself & to love yourself so that you can heal.

In this episode, I get honest with you & model for you the real process that is needed when it comes to healing.

We all tend to make things harder than what it has to be.

This habit of ours leads to unnecessary stress that can lead to chronic illness.

How about we break this bad habit that has gotten us sick in the first place and do the opposite?

Let’s make things as easy as possible by allowing things to be as they should (this means surrendering, trusting & believing in yourself & that you will always be taken care of, & receiving flow & ease into your life) & allow your inner guidance to lead you.

Your inner guidance will never steer you in the wrong direction even if it doesn't seem like it at the moment.

There will be many times during the healing process when you need to listen to your body and slow down. It’s important to do this.

This is what I needed to do this week.

This whole healing journey is about learning who you are & what you need, so you can properly support yourself to get back to homeostasis where the healing happens.

It’s about filling up your cup so you can fully show up in this world as your best self where everyone receives the best parts of you.

There will always be responsibilities for you to take care of.

It's about prioritizing your health as your first responsibility.

When you attend to your first responsibility of getting better, all your other responsibilities fall into place much more easily.

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Have you or someone close to you had major health issues or nearly died from health issues, conventional doctors couldn’t explain or help with?

You are not alone.

Rachael Malet’s husband nearly died 15 years ago due to his health issues. When they sought help, they found conventional doctors couldn’t help him so they had to look outside the conventional medicine box in search of healing.

Listen to this week’s episode to learn how she and her husband were able to nurse him back to health and the adjustments they’ve made to sustain optimal health.

Rachael’s best talent is bringing people together and connecting them to things that interest them.

Rachael is a Homeschool mom, Minimalist, Lives a Whole Food Lifestyle, Juicing Enthusiast, Photographer, Videographer, and she is an identical triplet.

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Marcia Lee decided enough was enough and she was going to make changes in her life to start feeling better no matter what.

When is your, “enough is enough”?

When are you going to rearrange and prioritize your Health?

There are no excuses that could ever measure up to keep you from living a great life in your body.

Start investing in yourself so that you can start feeling better again and show up in this world as your best self and live your best life.

Marcia’s passion for health and wellness began in 2009 when she had an epiphany about her weight. She had been struggling with her weight since childhood. Marcia was able to lose 80 lbs and keep it off for 13 years!

Learning to feel safe in your body through sexuality, trauma, & motherhood.

In today’s episode, I have a deep and vulnerable conversation with Dr. Sara Vogel. I’d like to warn you in advance, the topics we talk about and some of the language in this episode may not be suitable for children. These topics may be hard to listen to because they often are not discussed every day, because we like to hide them away in the darkest corners of our minds, because they make us feel shameful.

But the opposite is what should actually be done, due to the fact that we experience them every day and holding onto the feelings that accompany these experiences are negatively affecting our mental and physical health. Studies and data show trauma can trigger autoimmune diseases.

Fully coming into ourselves, embodying and loving who we are, including our sexuality is an area we must address if we are to heal completely and become vibrant.

Dr. Sara Vogel is a dynamic, trauma-informed educator, who is focused on creating a world where women understand their potential, value, power, and worth.

She spent the past five years working with survivors of sexual harassment, sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking.  Dr. Vogel is now democratizing her education and research, by bringing her teaching outside of the university walls and into the world.

In today’s episode, I have a loving, compassionate conversation with a heart-warming lady, named Elizabeth Krause. We talk about why self-compassion is important for your healing, how the healing process requires us to forgive ourselves, and how our own healing journey becomes teachings and tools for our children.

Is your ego addicted to choosing suffering over joy? Could this be one of the things blocking you from true healing?

Listen to this episode with guest, Christina Vine to see if this is true for you and how you can start to overcome this blockage.

We discuss Christina’s healing journey that led to her spiritual awakening.

Her deep, trusting spiritual connection has created a sense of peace, trust, and safety within her body. She has learned to surrender her fears and irrational stories, created by her ego, to her higher power so she can come back into alignment with herself.

Feeling safe and at peace is required for healing. It shifts your autonomic nervous system from the sympathetic state, the fight or flight/survival mode to the parasympathetic/rest and digest state where your body can repair itself.

In the rest and digest state, Your body can fully relax and focus its energy away from looking for danger and preparing yourself to fight off an attacker, to focusing your energy on healing.

There may be some spiritual topics we discuss in this episode that may challenge your beliefs and trigger some people. Christina and I ask you to keep an open mind and take what resonates with you and leave what doesn’t.

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Have you ever wondered if toxins, such as mold or heavy metals, could be the cause of the current state of your health?

Or do you have unexplained health issues that none of your doctors can figure out?

If so, listen to this episode to learn more!

I have a special guest, Shannon Martin, on the show to talk about what it means to be Tox-Sick.

Shannon is an Integrative Health Coach and Mineral Balancing Practitioner. Her interest in a holistic approach to health started when she realized that environmental factors were contributing to her gut health issues.

Shortly after finishing her coaching certification, she and her family began to develop new symptoms due to toxic mold in their home. This experience deepened her knowledge on the importance of environment, detox and how nutrient deficiencies play a role in your ability to heal.

Shannon now educates about toxins and how they impact other body systems. She coaches privately on how to safely detox toxic mold, heavy metals and chemicals through a holistic approach that includes replenishing nutritional deficiencies so that your body can heal.

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How can Functional Medicine support you on your autoimmune healing journey?

Why would someone choose a Functional Medicine practitioner over a conventional doctor?

Listen to this episode with Amanda John, PA-C to find out!

Amanda’s story and knowledge are so inspiring and bring us hope that healing is possible for each and every one of us.

Amanda is a functional medicine Physician Assistant currently practicing at Integrative Family Medicine of San Antonio.

She is passionate about helping people uncover the root cause of their diagnoses and steer them back toward a path of health and well-being.

The goal of this episode and any other episode is to help move the needle towards taking action that leads to better health and understanding you are worth investing in your health to become a healthier, better version of yourself.

Each day you do not take action towards supporting your health, you and your loved ones are missing out on the best parts of you.

My hope and wish are that you find this worthiness within yourself to invest in yourself and take actions towards becoming this healthy, wonderful, beautiful, amazing version of yourself.

Don't give up on yourself, you are worth it

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You have the power to make a difference in your health. It’s about not giving up on yourself and finding ways to support your body in healing itself.

In this episode, Jessica Carter shares her own autoimmune journey with us. She and I have a conversation about how she never gave up on herself by constantly searching for what her body needed in order for her body to start healing. This included becoming a scientist of her own body.

Jessica is an army veteran. She and her husband have been to all 50 states and 50 counties.

She’s in the top 1% at her company, dōTERRA.

She taught elementary music for 13 years. She now teaches about the life-changing benefits of essential oils, mindfulness, and yoga.

She is a 500-hr yoga teacher. She published 2 Amazon number one best-selling books on her trademarked system ōmmYōga® which combine essential oils, meditation, mantras, and yoga to work through difficult emotions so they aren’t stored in the body.

She’s a mindfulness and personal development coach. Her passion is guiding women to better health, to their strengths, and how to find the steps into their calling.

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References:

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.:

If you want to explore a different side of healing, tap into your sexual, pleasurable side.

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I invited Krista Biglin on the show to explore sex, sexuality, human connection, trauma, and healing with us.

Krista Biglin is a Registered Nurse, a certified Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach, a mother, a wife, and a lover of all dogs. She is the host of Searching for Self Podcast. Krista began her own journey to find herself after feeling lost, unfulfilled, and unhappy with her own life. She now encourages women to go within to seek answers, to be still and listen, to love themselves, live authentically, and learn to listen to their inner voice.

You may be wondering how these topics pertain to autoimmune healing. But you see, we are complex creatures, and every part of our lives, every part that makes us human, affects our health.

These topics can be triggering or uncomfortable because society has deemed them shameful, especially for women. When we feel shame and unsafe to fully express ourselves, including our sexuality, we start to abandon ourselves. Each time we abandon ourselves, a piece of us dies. Each time we deny ourselves pleasure, we suffer.

This creates dis-ease within the body.

When it comes to healing, we have to heal and love every piece of ourselves.

Listen to find out more!

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Sources Krista refers to in this episode:

Netflix: Sex, Love & goop

Energic Sex: Jaiya https://missjaiya.com/what-is-energetic-sex/

If you are interested in learning more about the topics Krista and I discussed, you can reach out to her directly.

Why should you advocate for your health? Maria McKeon, a certified Hatha Yoga and Radiant Child yoga teacher, personal trainer, mentor, pilates teacher, coach, wellness activist, and entrepreneur, is on a mission to help others prevent disease from ever starting.

For the past 10 years, Maria has co-founded and ran a successful non-profit, Mary’s Place by the Sea, that has had a pivotal role in the healing process of women living with numerous forms of cancer. This non-profit has inspired Maria to share the story of her journey with as many people as she can and to create Maria McKeon Wellness, an online community.

Maria is currently working professionally as a Registered Yoga (RYT-200) and Pilates Teacher at numerous studios in the New York Metropolitan areas and Health coaching virtually or in-person.

She spends her time on the Jersey shore enjoying her husband and four children, volunteering, and reminding herself that is it important to fill her cup up so she can continue to give in a meaningful way.

She believes we must be the change we want to see in this world and we must be our own Health Care Advocates.

Her Health is her Wealth, and she will do everything in her power to become rich.

Maria loves Motivating people all over the world with new tools for their personal wellness toolbox, no matter their personal circumstances.

Maria’s “Tool-Box”:

Faith

• Believing in something or someone to cultivate Hope.

Gratitude

• We are extremely fortunate for the life we are given.

Nutrition

• Food feeds the mind, body, and soul. It is our medicine.

Exercise

• Moving our body is vital to get the emotions out and to create a strong immune system.

Yoga /  Breathe Work / Connection / Support

• We are social beings and need each other more than ever to lean on for support.

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Listen to today’s episode to find out how I became my own science experiment to discover new ways of healing!

As I persevere on my healing journey, I accumulate healing tools to share with the world.

Come along with me on my healing journey so you can find ideas to help navigate your healing journey!

This episode is the continuance of last week’s episode (episode 2), The Death Of My Old Self- My Autoimmune Story.

If you haven’t listened to it yet, go check it out to get a better understanding of my story.

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How can you find missing links to your health so you can properly address them to ignite your healing? Start learning about yourself and your past experiences.

In this episode, I get vulnerable with you guys. I share the first half of my autoimmune story with you, the experiences in my life that lead to the death of my old self. These are parts of my life that played a big role in the development of my autoimmune disease. Our health is affected by every aspect of our lives and we must address them in order to move forward.

I hope you enjoy this episode and feel seen and less alone after listening to my story and that any missing pieces to your healing journey come to light for you.

In the next week’s episode, I will get into the story of what I did after being diagnosed and how I approached it. I call this my rebirth, my healing journey

Come along with me on my healing journey so you can find ideas to help navigate your healing journey!

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Happy 2022! New Year New You! Starting Your Year Off Right!

How can you start making simple changes today to begin your healing process?

In this episode, I offer you 6 simple steps you can take today to start moving forward towards optimal health on your autoimmune healing journey.

Come along with me on my healing journey so you can find ideas to help navigate your healing journey!

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Welcome to the A Woman Worth Healing: An Autoimmune Journey podcast! 

This short episode will give you a glimpse of what this podcast is all about!

This podcast is a safe space for women with autoimmune diseases to start their natural healing process. We all have an innate ability to heal, we just need to give our body what it needs to heal. This podcast will help you think differently so you can find what you need to trigger your healing process.

Come along with me on my healing journey so you can find ideas to help navigate your healing journey!

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