Wisdom of the Body

Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews poet-author Meredith Heller about all the ways in which writing is therapeutic, and what the real job of the artist is. They discuss who gets called to write, why so many healers are also writers, and how to find your unique voice. They also chat about common misconceptions about writing and how to work with feedback and the inner critic. And Heather has a heck of a time trying to think of a metaphor for her heart when Meredith puts her on the spot.

Meredith Heller is the author of Writing by Heart, Write a Poem, Save Your Life, and several poetry collections. A poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature lover, and educator with degrees in writing and education, she leads writing workshops online and in-person at schools, juvenile detention centers, women’s prisons, and wellness retreats. Visit her online at http://www.MeredithHeller.com.

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

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Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

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Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych asks whether religion is helping or hindering fertility and reproduction today, considering that a large percentage of children today are actually born to unwed mothers. Religion and science can both shape one’s approach to their wellness, medical and even fertility journeys, including when it’s okay to have sex and who we can have sex with. While many aspects of religion may be beneficial, are they also limiting modern people? Do we still have to follow the rules of religion or our family culture and get married to have kids today? How can people build rituals for the rite of passage into becoming a parent outside of religion?

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews author Lee Kravetz about what makes people susceptible to psychological and emotional contagion, and what creates growth and resilience. Lee discusses his book Social Contagion, where he researched a mysterious string of suicides that occurred at a high school in Silicon Valley, and why bulimia began to increase worldwide once it became more discussed in the media. He also discusses his book, SuperSurvivors, where he wrote about positive psychology and post-traumatic growth vs. post-traumatic stress. They discuss how even the mental desires of getting married and wanting a baby can be a type of social contagion, and why Heather is afraid to read books about Sylvia Plath, including Lee’s most recent work, The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

Lee Kravetz is the author of the national bestselling novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., (The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A Good Morning America Reads Pick) as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, and PBS. He teaches at the Dominican University of California MFA Program, and lives in Berkeley, CA. www.leekravetz.com

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert and author Heather Grzych discusses how to listen to your heart from an Ayurvedic and yogic perspective, and explains why the heart is a connector of inner and outer intelligence. She guides you through a short heart opening chakra meditation, helping you connect better with your own heart and feel gratitude. She discusses healthy levels of attachment, and the benefits of connecting with your own heart when you want to connect with others too.

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Certified Lactation Counselor Hannah Bowers about the role of nutrition in fertility and health, and why it’s completely left out of modern medicine. They discuss what resources are available when a person gets a diagnosis of PCOS. Hannah is an example of a thin person who was diagnosed with PCOS, which breaks the stereotypes that people have about PCOS. Learn what a fertility awakening is, why fertility nutrition is dependent on your body type, and how a nutritionist prepares for labor and postpartum period.

Hannah Bowers is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Certified Lactation Counselor, host of the Baby Dust Fertility Podcast, and writer who is passionate about supporting women from preconception and infertility through postpartum. www.blissberrywellness.com

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses the topic of spirituality: what it is, how it’s different than religion, and whether there is really a split between the fields of science and spirituality. Heather discusses the meaning of the English words spirit, spirituality and materiality, and the Sanskrit words prana and vata. She addresses what influences our beliefs, the problems that so many many religiously unaffiliated people see today, and why they still crave a spiritual experience.

Heather Grzych, AD is an American author and expert in Ayurvedic medicine who was formerly the head of product development for a multi-billion-dollar health insurance company. She is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, serving on the faculty at Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda and on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Heather’s first book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and her writing has been featured in Sports Illustrated, Yoga Journal, and the Sunday Independent. Her podcast, Wisdom of the Body, holds an average rating of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. In addition to creating, supporting her clients, and leading an organization, she’s often helping out at her son’s baseball practices. Visit her online at www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych interviews author Scott Stabile about how to liberate ourselves to be able to love ourselves and others, and why it’s never too late to learn this. Scott challenges the idea that the body doesn’t lie, and points out that sometimes the body can be wrong. They discuss how minds work and how you can observe yours with lightness. You’ll get some tips on how to deal with people who don’t want to love and accept you, and how to deal with your mind when it’s beating you up.

Scott Stabile is the author of Enough as You Are and Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. He is a passionate love advocate who believes there is no force more powerful than love to create real connection and healing in our world. Scott guides transformational breathwork journeys and leads personal empowerment workshops internationally. His inspirational posts have attracted a huge and devoted social media following, including more than 350,000 Facebook fans.

Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and healthcare companies, and even ran an infant studies psychology lab in undergrad. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses what a vision board is, how it works, how to make one to create a powerful transformation in your life. Vision boards help the conscious mind observe subconscious desires, which leads to deeper self-realization. You’ll learn how to avoid the common pitfalls involving vision boards when you’re looking to manifest change in your life, health, career or relationships. She addresses the idea of fate vs free will, and stresses the importance of manifesting through striking a balance between making goals and making the unknown known.

Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. An Ayurvedic Doctor-level certified professional, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and health plans. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness author Heather Grzych interviews Richard Dixey about meditation as a fundamental necessity of being human. As a Buddhist teacher with a background as a biotech CEO, Richard discusses why, even though science is very valuable and useful, people are being duped every day into believing that science is the ultimate truth - when it’s actually the status quo. You’ll learn how long is a good time to meditate, and why it’s essential that educated people practice it in today’s world to live a fully human life.

Richard Dixey, PhD, is the author of Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life and a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. A research scientist and a lifelong student of Buddhism who holds advanced degrees in biophysics and the history and philosophy of science, Dixey directed a bioelectronic research unit at a London hospital before becoming CEO of his own biotech company. He moved to the US in 2007 to devote himself to teaching meditation, deepening his own practice, and running the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo, the eldest daughter of the well-known Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. For more information visit him online at http://www.richarddixey.com

Heather Grzych, AD is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. A board-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner at the Ayurvedic Doctor level, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and healthcare companies, and even ran an infant studies psychology lab in undergrad. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather to balance your health for your fertility:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Wellness expert Heather Grzych discusses the ways people heal from miscarriage and pregnancy loss. She addresses why it’s essential to recognize the emotional, physical and mental toll it takes on those who go through it, and why it’s so important to take some time for rejuvenation after a loss, even when it may be difficult to take time off from day-to-day work and duties.

Heather Grzych is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast. An Ayurvedic Doctor-level certified professional, Heather serves on the Board of Directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and has been a consultant for doctors, governments, and health plans. She offers virtual consultations and programs worldwide. www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather:

Instagram.com/heathergrzych

Facebook.com/grzychheather

Read the first six pages of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility for FREE:

https://www.heathergrzych.com

Connect with Heather for an Ayurvedic consultation:

https://www.heathergrzych.com/book-online

This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.