This is a follow up episode to the previous episode on Friendship Matters, where we talk about what are all the necessary skills or areas that we need to strengthen or to increase awareness around to be able to deepen our current relationships with our friends, romantic relationships or at home. I talk about the importance of mindset and the awareness of our thoughts when we are making the effort to make new friends or deepen the connection, about the need to have a vison and awareness of what we need and are looking for on a friend, about green flags in relationships to look out for and what are some of the areas that might need healing to increase our levels of adaptability, flexibility, trust and vulnerability, that are crucial in the formation of deeper bonds. If you want to learn more, please listen to the previous episodes on the importance of attachment theory  "Attachment Styles and AEDP Therapy with Christy O'Shoney" and Healing from Complex Trauma with Attachment Informed EMDR with Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown. If you also find this episode please share it with your friends and family to help us all achieve deeper connections in our lives. 

his is extremely helpful conversations with friendship experts, if you are curious or interested in making new friends, or deepening your connections with existing friends!  My guest, Karen Riddell is a public speaker and Psychology Today blogger on the topic of friendships and the Author of the book, "Friendship Matters".  We had a fascinating and helpful conversation on WHY friendship matters, the multitude of physical, emotional and professional benefits that having friends has,  the scientific research behind the power that friendship has, e.g. people's presence, their touch and connection fuels our bodies with oxytocin and we discussed the evidence and statistics on how it improves our health and longevity. We talked about how and where to find new friends, about the skills needed to grow and deepen friendships, and what we can proactively do to make and deepen the relationship with our friends to feel better and live longer!   To learn more about Karen Riddell and book her as a speaker, please go to her website at karenriddell.com or on social media at @thefriendshipmattersbook.   With the current loneliness pandemic, please share this episode with as many people as possible to support us in inspiring as many of us to HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with your health, with your relationships and in every area of our lives.   

Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained board-certified Psychiatrist and professional chef and nutritional specialist who is considered a Nutritional Psychiatry Pioneer and the author of "This Is Your Brain On Food" and of her latest book "Calm Your Mind with Food" .   We spoke about her journey into incorporating nutrition as a fundamental foundation of mental health and her psychiatry practice, how many physicians are unaware of the role that nutrition plays and how that is changing with over 20% of medical school having a robust nutritional component in medical education, why what we eat is so important to our mental health, how when you start to improve what you eat it works as a catalyst for healthier habits and better physical and mental health, why sugars and carbs have a negative effect on our anxiety and tips on how we can enjoy small amounts of the carbs that we love, and more tips about what to eat to avoid and treat both anxiety and depression.    To learn more about Dr. Uma Naidoo please check our her website at https://umanaidoomd.com, follow her at @drunanaidoo on all social media platforms, if you want to eat foods for your brain and health but don't like to cook please try out her Mood Food Meals with the Daily Dose - delivering freshly prepared meals using her brain food recipes and spices, and please subscribe to Dr Uma's newsletter on Substack and if you are a physician or a student in training Dr. Uma is an instructor with her own @MasterClass - see her classes on Brain Health and sign up for Dr Uma's course on  Nutritional Psychiatry.    Please share this episode with everyone who is facing anxiety or depression and can benefit of this information to healIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with there health and relationships. 

This is a helpful and inspirational episode with Leanne Townsend, a Family Lawyer, who felt that she was stuck on a hamster wheel and decided to prioritize her health and wellbeing attaining amazing results, not just in weight loss but in every area of her life, including love.   We talked about her health journey, what helped her and how it is never the right time to prioritize ourselves and our health, but when we decide to do so, and focus on planting and watering our own garden, doing the work, and what is needed to establish the right habits for her successful results.    You can learn more about Leanne, her law practice, Townsend Family Law, and her growing Facebook Health & Wellness Group at @leannetownsendlife on Instagram, Leanne Townsend on Facebook and Linked IN at www.townsendfamilylaw.ca.   If you find this episode as helpful as I did, please share it with your friends and colleagues to help us inspire as many people as possible to invest in themselves to and HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with their health, their relationships and with every area of their lives.  

This is a solo episode that you and everyone you know will find extremely helpful. I talk about the importance of getting "Curious, Not Furious" , a term I first heard from one of my guest in this podcast, Johanna Lynn, and I wanted to use it when it refers to dealing with our angry emotions. I talk about why feeling anger is a positive thing, I explain how we learned to deal with anger and we explore all the reasons why it is important to get Curios and not Furious. I then explain all the different ways that we can get curious and what it means and share helpful coping mechanisms to deal with difficult emotions when they arrive. To learn more, or to work with me go to Linkedin at Karen Millon or Instagram at @karenmilloncoaching and send me a DM. Please support me in inspiring others to HealIN to achieve greater levels of satisfaction in every area of their lives!    The information in this solo episode is based on my years as a coach and learning from my clients and the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Aaron Beck.. Principles that I was trained and certified on, and the Trauma Informed awareness that I have learned from the many guests that I have had in the podcast and the many trauma informed books, and tedtalks, and youtubes that I have read or heard. Detail references available upon requests.  Books include "The Myth of Normal' By Gabor Mate, "What happened to you?" by Dr. Brice Perry, How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera, TedTaks by Juna Mustart, and Mike Goldman and YouTubes by Mark Tyrell,  an Anger therapise and anger researched Ryan Martin.

It there is anything that you want to work on, heal from, or dimmish an anxiety without having to talk about it or "go through it" or "feel it to heal it" this is the episode for you.   On this episode, I had an in-depth conversation about his background, the difference between Clinical Hypnotherapy and the Solution-Focused Clinical  Hypnotherapy he practices today, and how and why it works to re-program your subconscious mind by quieting down the judgmental pre-frontal cortex without having to go through what happened to you.  We discussed that for the cases where we do have to "go through it" how he has experience that Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is the fastest and safest way to go through a trauma to heal it. To learn more about Paul and to work with him you can find him on his website https://CohesiveSOULutions.com/about.  If you are interested in his Executive Coaching or Team/Culture Building, they can go to https://cohesivecoaching.com and please visit his Facebook at CohesiceSOULutions.   I you find this episode as helpful as I have, please share it with friends, family and co-workers and please subscribe to help us on our journey to inspire as many people as possible to do this work to HealIN to achieve greater levels of satisfaction in every area of their lives.

If you have heard many of this podcasts previous episodes on coaching, CBT, 6 on EMDR, IFS, Hypnosis and more, you know that the key to healing, or one of the first steps of a healing journey, it gaining an awareness of what happened to us, or the origin of our fears, anxieties, or symptoms.  On this episode, I was super excited to introduce you to a new therapy modality for me and for this podcast, Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations,  that provides us with clues or a deep dive into where else might fears or anxieties that we are experiencing, come from, when we can not remember its root within something we personally experienced in the past that we can actively heal, or if you are ready to explore coaching or therapy for the first time.    I had this extremely interesting conversation with Johanna Lynn who is the Founder of The Family Imprint Institute Training and who has over 15 years of experience in this modalities since becoming certified in them with The Family Constellations Institute and The inherited Trauma Institute.  Before focusing on Inherited Trauma she was a Clinical Hypnotherapist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotherapist and she has a Masters in Neurolinguistics Programing.   On this episode we spoke about the history of Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations, and why and how it works. We also spoke in detail about one of her expertise, how to use family constellations when healing money issues and why we can't save money or we can't stop spending.  Is this fear or anxiety mine? Or where does it come from? We talked about how despite us trying to avoid family sometimes, there is no avoiding .. epigenetically, biogenetically we carry our family with us..and hence, the importance of staying curious versus furious and how to successfully navigate this important territory.   You can learn more about Johanna Lynn and find her courses at johannalynn.ca or on social media @thefamilyimprint_institute   I truly loved this episode and if you loved it too, please do me a favor and share it with a friend or colleague or anyone who you think will find it helpful to simply help us in our quest to help others to feel better, do better and be better and HealIN to achieve in every area of their lives. 

In the last few episodes of the HealIN Podcast, we start to understand the relationship with how our life experiences and traumas can affect our physical health, and in this episode, we expand the conversation to how nutrition and mindfulness can affect it too.  I had a great conversation with Dr. Basma Faris who was my OBGYN here in NYC and we talked about her journey to include a nutritional lense into her OBGYN practice, and why there is sadly so little emphasis on the importance of nutrition in medical training. We discussed the importance of certain foods to support different stages in our lives, and particular foods that we can decrease in our lives to prevent the formation of fibroids or the hardening of our arteries.  We talked about the importance of understanding the barriers to change in the adoption of better eating habits before knowing how to support someone and she shared her personal journey into mindfulness and how this has transformed her to the person and excellent physician that she is today. More importantly, she shared how she is now merging her two passions as the Founder of  PollyPrepMD, supporting women with PCOS! You can learn more about Dr. Basma Faris on her website at www.pollyprepmd.com and on social media at @drbasmafaris or @pollyprep or Dr. Basma Faris on LinkedIN.

In this episode, we talked about her journey into incorporating the effects of trauma and mental health into her pediatrics practice and her passion for treating the whole person holistically. She explained how so many headaches, and tummy aches are caused by emotional and mental health issues, and we had a comprehensive discussion on how she treats them.  We discussed the biggest factor affecting children and teens these days and what to do about it, and why it was important for her as a pediatrician to also prioritize her wellness in many ways, including  working with a professional coach and prioritizing living as her most authentic self through her own healing and growth. 

This is a fascinating discussion with clinical Cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Fisher, in which he shares the struggles that arise from the rigorous medical school education and practice and shares with us how getting support and working with positive psychology, mindfulness, compassion, and many other practices, especially mindset work - using the  awareness of our thoughts and how they affect our feelings and actions - helped him to to become more present, productive, and fulfilled physician and person. This initially self-directed work led him to become a recognized well-being leader, to write his upcoming book "One Heart, A Cardiologist Guide to Healing, Health and Happiness," and established him as the head of a wellness program in his institution. His transformational programs have helped hundreds of leaders.  Order his book at www.justoneheartbook.com and learn more about Dr. Fisher by following him at @happyheartmd on Instagram and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd.