The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan

• Why modern humans are experiencing so many mineral deficiencies
• The reason modern humans can’t get enough minerals from food
• How minerals impact mitochondria and why this is so important
• Your body makes amino acids but minerals must be ingested
• We are often operating at 40% of the mineral levels we actually need
• Symptoms of mineral deficiency
• How mineral depletion affects the nervous system and cellular health
• Her own experience with mineral depletion
• How to get minerals back into the cells correctly
• What fulvic and humic minerals are and what they do
• Macrominerals vs microminerals
• The problem with megadosing minerals - your body is not a car

Resources We Mention

• Beam Minerals
• Caroline Alan - Website
• Caroline Alan - Instagram

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko

• What resilience is and why it is important
• Common traits of people who are resilient
• What kinds of things can lower our resilience
• How the language we use toward ourselves and our children can impact us drastically
• A way to become the observer in a situation to shift focus and become more resilient
• Ways to cultivate resilience with small daily practices
• How resilience can help us when we go through difficult situations

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Olga Stevko - website

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko

• What emotional intelligence is and how it affects all areas of life
• We need to be able to feel to have emotional intelligence
• What happens when people feel too little or too much
• Problems that can arise if someone has very high emotional intelligence
• Ways to improve emotional intelligence
• How unconscious programs are formed from trauma and life events or passed genetically
• What mirror neurons are and how they can be helpful
• How pets can help with emotional intelligence
• Ways to deal with unconscious programming
• Her term: what artificial emotional intelligence is
• How she helps people with the unconscious level without using hypnosis
• Genetic trauma and how it can affect the unconscious level without you even being aware of it

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Olga Stevko - website

Episode Highlights With Veronica

• How we can befriend our bodies and nervous systems to help create the life we want
• The pitfalls that women especially can fall into when it comes to nervous system health
• How this relates to reproductive health, especially for women
• Deeper nervous system healing that goes beyond just affirmations and talking
• How to make amends with your body and start to signal safety
• Ways to build a nervous system healthy environment in our homes and teach our kids good nervous system habits from a young age
• How to integrate nervous system health into your whole day
• What co-regulation is and how to create it with your partner and kids

Resources We Mention

• Veronica Rottman - website
• Veronica Rottman - Instagram

Episode Highlights With Veronica

• What somatic healing is
• The way this ties into nervous system healing
• Somatics is a broad term that includes all things that mean healing through the body
• Modalities that are included in somatic healing
• What somatic experiencing is
• How we can use the body to help resolve trauma and promote mental wellness
• What polyvagal theory is and why it is important
• 80% of thoughts, emotions, and experiences are moving from the body up
• Why nervous system healing isn’t just deciding not to be stressed… we have to show our bodies that we are safe
• What the “four Fs” are and why they matter: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn
• A ventral vagal state is a state of safety
• How to build capacity for safety in the nervous system

Resources We Mention

• Veronica Rottman - website

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina

• How hormone changes affect the skin
• Why the skin changes at menopause and what to do about it
• The reason menopause isn’t a bigger part of the conversation
• Why acne can happen again in menopause
• The reason hair loss happens sometimes during menopause
• What to know about different skincare procedures
• Procedures that can be helpful and what to avoid (plus risks and downsides)
• At-home devices that work and ones to avoid

Resources We Mention

• The Skin Real
• Mito Red Light

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina

• What a minimalist skincare routine is and why keeping it simple can be best
• Skincare is self-care but it doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive
• The basics of a skincare routine that works and what you don’t need
• Products that can help you age gracefully without any extreme procedures
• Over-the-counter products that can work
• How a vitamin A cream can be beneficial
• Vitamin C serums and if they can be helpful
• What different skin types actually need and the real truth about skin types
• How to build skincare habits around your skin type and skin goals
• An inside-out approach to good skin
• Skincare is whole body care

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Mary Alice Mina
• Eidon
• OneSkin

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme

• You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve
• The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world
• Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body
• The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally
• How emotions come into play here
• What brain freeze teaches us about the vagus nerve
• Where Western medicine recognizes the connection of emotions to the vagus nerve
• Liver toxicity can lead to wakeups from 1-3 a.m.
• Ways to support the vagus nerve
• How we can sometimes intuitively avoid foods that are harmful to the vagus nerve

Resources We Mention

• Migraine Test
• Nectar Health

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme

• She speaks seven languages
• English is actually her third language
• The genetic aspects of migraines and why they're so intense
• The health benefits of letting go and how this relates to migraines
• Hope for migraine sufferers and how to actually resolve migraines through a root cause approach
• How not letting go impacts our brain and also our body in a massive way
• An incredible story about someone completely recovering from migraines
• The actual process of letting go and some easy tactics to use to do it
• Why emotions are actually positive but staying stuck in a single emotion is detrimental
• How to consciously change emotions
• Practical suggestions for processing and moving emotions
• How to use foods to help dissipate negative emotions

Resources We Mention

• Nectar Health - Diane Ducarme
• Migraine Test
• The Migraine Heroes Podcast
• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R Hawkins, MD, PhD

Episode Highlights With Robby Besner

• Creating the safest home environment for healing
• The difference between infrared and red light and how to use them both
• What full-spectrum infrared is and how it includes near, mid, and far ranges
• Ways to create a healthy home environment with protective healing frequencies
• How sleep drastically impacts healing and how to support deep sleep
• Ways to reduce EMFs in our home environment without going crazy
• What EMF harmonizing is and how this can be helpful
• How we already have more than just 5G around us
• What PEMF is, and how it's beneficial
• The eight pulsed frequencies that he includes that are the most beneficial
• 2 PEMF frequencies for parasympathetic, the 2 that work for focus and motivation, and others that are helpful for pain relief
• What ozone is and how it can be beneficial
• Many of us age, in part, by lack of oxygen being held in our blood cells
• Why the order of things matters and how to use these optimally
• How he stacks all of these modalities for the most effect
• Why he recommends sauna in the morning for optimal effect and how to stack it with other modalities to make it more effective

Resources We Mention

• Therasage