EnVibe Life Conversations

For today’s EnVibe Life Conversations, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn are joined again by Lahana Vigliano. She is a clinical nutritionist and the CEO of Nuvitru Wellness. Lahana is also currently completing her Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. During this episode, Lahana will give tips for eating well during the busy and festive holiday time. They also discuss food testing, making choices that are right for you, and the importance of being prepared to eat and live healthy.

In this episode:

01:48 – Lahana shares a bit about her background and gives some eating tips for the holiday season.
03:25 – How you approach holiday eating depends on where you are in your health journey.
05:00 – What people need to avoid differs vastly for each person.
06:00 – The importance of being mindful of what your own body likes and dislikes.
06:45 – View your body’s reactions as lessons.
08:24 – Amy talks about her son’s journey to eating healthy and weight loss and what you can learn from eliminating foods from your diet.
11:30 – Learning to feel your body. Learning what optimum health feels like.
12:31 – The importance of being ready to eat healthy when you embark upon a new eating plan.
16:00 – Why do people often wait until something bad happens or they are ill to change their eating?
16:35 – Modifying the food at the holiday table to make it healthier.
20:30 – Lahana explains their testing process and the three categories of food reactions: (1) food allergies, (2) food sensitivities, and (3) food intolerances.
24:00 – How long does the elimination phase of an elimination diet last?
24:55 - What are the foods you can and cannot eat while you’re in the elimination phase of an elimination diet?

To learn more about Lahana Vigliano and Nuvitru Wellness, visit her at Nuvitru Wellness. 

For today’s podcast, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn are joined by Kelli Porter of Modern Women’s Health. Kelli is a Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Menopause Practitioner. They discuss the symptoms of menopause and its stages. Kelli also discusses what they do in their clinic, what happens to our bodies during menopause, and the various treatments available to help women.

In This Episode:

01:32 – Kelli’s background and training.
02:36 – Modern Women’s Health approach to practicing gynecology.
03:30 – The symptoms and stages of menopause.
04:15 – Every woman’s experience is different.
05:22 – Common symptoms of menopause (night sweats, insomnia, hot flashes, pain with intercourse, headaches, depression, etc.).
07:20 – How does a past hysterectomy affect the stages and symptoms of menopause?
07:40 – “Surgical menopause”.
08:10 – Common lab tests to determine menopause stage:  FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) and Estradiol.
09:45 – Other conditions that can mimic menopause.
11:10 – Treatment options to help women with menopause and perimenopause symptoms.
13:30 – You don’t have to accept the symptoms of menopause! There are treatments to help.
14:35 – Testosterone therapy. Symptoms of low testosterone in women.
15:28 –Options for women who can’t tolerate hormone therapy.
18:18 – The causes of vaginal dryness and treatments for it.
19:30 – GSM (Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause).
20:30 – Vaginal Estrogens and the MonaLisa Touch® laser as treatment options.
21:30 – Votiva vaginal rejuvenation.
22:20 –The O-Shot and the use of PRP (platelet-rich plasma).

To learn more about Modern Women’s Health, their care options, and treatments, visit Modern Women's Health.

For today’s EnVibe Life Conversation, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn chat about being stressed out and over-scheduled. They touched on how people are adjusting to life after Covid-19 and the stress that comes with it. They also discuss the importance of having quiet moments and the intentionality of what you really want to do.

In this episode:

01:07 – Cheryl and Amy discuss the anxiety everyone is feeling coming out of Covid-19.
02:12 – Multi-tasking and its consequence. Just because we are able to multi-task doesn’t mean it’s good to function like that.
04:00 – Living lives of intentionality.
04:44 – The value of saying no sometimes.
05:00 – How we are coming back “full force” after COVID and bursting at the seams.
06:00 – Why do we feel like we need to do it all?
07:10 – Stresses of parenting.
13:00 –Stress and its negative effects on us.
16:58 – The lessons from emotional and physical triggers.
17:47 – Why do we over-schedule ourselves?
20:15 – Positive lessons from the pandemic.
21:26 – Strategies to avoid over-scheduling.

For today’s EnVibe Life Conversation, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn chat about being stressed out and over-scheduled. They touched on how people are adjusting to life after Covid-19 and the stress that comes with it. They also discuss the importance of having quiet moments and the intentionality of what you really want to do.

In this episode:

01:07 – Cheryl and Amy discuss the anxiety everyone is feeling coming out of Covid-19.
02:12 – Multi-tasking and its consequence. Just because we are able to multi-task doesn’t mean it’s good to function like that.
04:00 – Living lives of intentionality.
04:44 – The value of saying no sometimes.
05:00 – How we are coming back “full force” after COVID and bursting at the seams.
06:00 – Why do we feel like we need to do it all?
07:10 – Stresses of parenting.
13:00 –Stress and its negative effects on us.
16:58 – The lessons from emotional and physical triggers.
17:47 – Why do we over-schedule ourselves?
20:15 – Positive lessons from the pandemic.
21:26 – Strategies to avoid over-scheduling.

For today’s podcast, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn are joined again by Karen Cooper. Karen is a psychic medium, an intuitive healer, and a Reiki master. They discuss Intuitive Healing and how it differs from Karen’s other practices. They also share how all of us can access and trust our intuition.

In This Episode:

01:38 – What is Intuitive Healing?
02:35 – The difference between Reiki and Intuitive Healing.
03:53 – Opening our connection to our divine self and trusting our intuition.
06:00 – Using intuition to make choices.
06:10 – Intuition as a gut feeling.
07:30 – How society sometimes teaches us to ignore our intuition.
08:33 – Why do we sometimes feel guilty for following our instincts.
11:30 – Physical manifestations of intuition and how our body tells us what we need to know.
14:12 – Karen shares a story about how following her intuition as a mother (“mother’s intuition”).
18:00 – The importance of differentiating your intuition from your fears. How to do so.
19:35 – What is intuition and where does it come from?
21:17 – How is intuition different or related to ESP?
22:30 – What are some things you can do to open your channels of intuition?
24:44 – Does intuition only come in the form of feelings or can it come as external signs?
27:04 – Intuition as inspired action as a part of the Law of Attraction and Law of Manifestation.

To learn more about Karen Cooper, visit Karen Cooper Healing

To view the EnVibe Life Conversations podcast on Psychic Mediumship with Karen Cooper, click here.

For this episode, Amy Parker and Cheryl Dunn discuss emotions and how they manifest in the body. Our emotions can affect the mind, body and spirit and having them in balance is important. They touched on their physical and emotional pains, the struggles that they experienced and the adjustments they had to make to overcome them. Theyalso shared how their emotions help guide them in their life paths.

In this episode:

01:48 -Cheryl explains how human emotions show up as pain in the body.

05:42 – Using physical movement as a medicine.

06:56 – Teaching people how to feel and to use their feelings to guide them.

08:37 – How the physical and the emotional bodies are intertwined.

09:26 - The importance of emotional, physical and spiritual wellness and of finding joy in the things that you do.

11:16 - Amy talks about the things she learned being with Cheryl over the years and the importance of nurturing the mind, body and spirit.

12:20 – John Barnes and his work on myofascial release. 

13:42 - Brent Baum and his work on healing trauma and holographic memory resolution. 

15:14 - Listen to your body.

15:47 - Do a self-check.

16:44 - Amy and Cheryl explains how emotional triggers can be gifts to help people focus on what needs to be healed within themselves.

18:27 - Amy and Cheryl share their own pains and their struggles to overcome them.

20:57 – Using emotional and physical cues

to make decisions.

24:25 - How Amy and Cheryl use emotions to guide them in their lives and the adjustments they made after following it.

Amy and Cheryl are joined by chiropractor, Dr. Jon Swanson. Dr. Swanson practices chiropractic medicine and acupuncture. He discusses chiropractic care and what to expect from the practice and also dispels a few myths about it.

In this episode:

01:27 - What is chiropractic care?
04:29 - Dr. Jon explains why chiropractic care is a great option to help people to live better lives.
07:34 -Amy shares her experience with scoliosis and how chiropractic care helped her.
12:16 –The benefits of a holistic approach to wellness.
16:12 -Chiropractic care and the different approaches and techniques to its practice.
18:52 -What to expect at a chiropractic appointment.
23:22 – Dr. Swanson clarifies some misunderstandings around chiropractic care.
28:23 -Dr. Swanson discusses his background and how he got into chiropractic care.

To learn more about Dr. Jon Swanson visit https://swansonchiro.com/our-locations/bee-cave/.

For today’s podcast, Amy and Cheryl talk about intentionality and how it helps them live an EnVibe life. They share their individual struggles and how they have faced them. Amy and Cheryl also give tips on how to live with intentionality and recommend books that inspired them on their path.

In this episode:

01:41 - Cheryl shares Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, a book she recently read that has encouraged her to live an intentional life. 
08:01 - Amy discusses The Universal Human by Gary Zukav and how it helped her. 
10:05 - The power behind intentions.
14:46 - It’s ok to want things. How intentions fuel the Law of Attraction.
18:04 – Cheryl talks about how living with intentionality helped her life for the better.
23:18 – Strategies to bring intentionality in your life.

Today Amy and Cheryl are joined by EnVibe Life Conversations’ listener Cara Beth Cara Beth McLeod. Cara Beth is a busy mom, wife, and teacher who also live with a chronic health condition. They discuss the importance of having boundaries, being sensitive to your environment and the energy around you, and having the self-awareness to control our own lives and environments to help us feel our best. Cara Beth also shares her experiences living as a Type 1 Diabetic.

In this episode:

01:09 - Cara Beth tells her EnVibe Life journey.
05:38 - Strategies that Cara Beth uses to help her on her daily path.
07:12 – Cara Beth shares her experiences living with Type 1 Diabetes.
10:54 - The importance of cleansing and resetting your environment and the space around you.
14:06 - Amy shares how she has been influenced by Dr. Joe Dispenza’s book,  Becoming Supernatural.
16:51 - Cara Beth shares a resource that she has been influenced by as a teacher living EnVibe, The Calm Classroom.
18:27 – Having boundaries and how that can help with daily struggles and challenges.
25:09 - Controlling our own negative self-talk.

Today, we are joined by Courtney Gill, owner and practitioner of Refine Aesthetics, a boutique Med Spa.

Are you conscious about your skincare? Have you wondered what differentiates a Med Spa? Join Amy Parker, Cheryl Dunn, and Courtney Gill as they discuss trends and treatments in the medical aesthetic and beauty industries.

In this episode:

01:33 - Courtney introduces Refine Aesthetics and her background.
02:52 - What is a Med Spa? Why is this unique and important?
03:35 – Qualifications needed to be considered a Med Spa.
05:15 - Courtney talks about current face and body treatments.
06:20 – EmSculptNeo. Why Courtney thinks it is a cutting-edge treatment.      
08:45 – EmSculptNeo as a non-surgical treatment for diastasis recti, torn ACL, and other muscle toning needs.
14:00 - How Courtney decided to open a business in the middle of COVID.
14:20 – Courtney’s personal story of having a coronary incident and how that changed her perspective and goals.
16:30 – Refine’s desire to help their clients be their best selves. Why this is important to Courtney and her team.
21:09 -Courtney discusses Botox and neurotoxins.
23:07 – Medical indications and cosmetic uses for Botox.
26:54 – When should you start neurotoxins/Botox?
27:23 - Courtney discusses fillers, such as Juvederm and Restalyne, and when they are used.
29:53 – Is it ever too late to start Botox, fillers, and other aesthetic treatments?
36:18 – Medical grade skincare products.

To learn more about Refine Aesthetics and their offerings, visit them at www.refineaethetics.com and follow on Instagram @refineaestheticsatx.