Wellness Wisdom

The lives of young people today are full of uncertainty and stress. They are making decisions on relationships, schooling, and career paths and then there is the stress of the pandemic and social disconnection. Wendy Van Dam focuses on helping young women in the millennial generation live their life fully through trusting divinity. Wendy (Ms. Divinity) shares her own life path and how she got caught up in other people's expectations. She talks about how she was living roles she thought she wanted but she still didn't feel satisfied with her life. She said she felt like a "robot" going through the motions. She eventually sought out a business coach who helped her "bring her soul alive" through learning how to trust divinity. She felt empowered to create her own life and leave her limiting beliefs behind. Ms. Divinity helps young women find and pursue what makes their spirit soar. She is a mentor who helps young people follow their heart in choosing their career and life path. Wendy talks about "turnin

This week, I had the opportunity to guest on the Are You Happy in Your Heart? podcast! I talked with Sarah Worlton about my experience as a wellness coach, and how I've learned to fight off anxiety and be more present.

Holly is a Certified Master Level Coach through Health Coach Institute and helps highly driven women build resilience to toxic beauty and diet messages. She uses an intuitive and spiritual approach that guides her clients towards self trust, confidence and Sovereignty over their entire being; body, mind and soul. From this place, her clients are able to make self guided decisions and finally live the life they desire in the body they live in today. In this episode Holly shares her personal journey with her body image beginning with dieting at the age of 8 years old to try to change her body. Holly talks about cultural messages that condition us as women with a message that you need to "stay pretty, stay conventionally attractive, stay small." The 70 billion dollar beauty industry promotes women being dissatisfied with their looks. Holly shares how she chose a career in fashion a highly "image centered" industry and found herself struggling with disordered eating and dissatisfaction with her body that led to

I had the opportunity to guest on The Big Self Podcast! I shared my experiences with anxiety and the tremendous freedom that comes when you can confront it. See all of The Big Self podcasts on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creating-new-beliefs-shifting-mindsets-camille-kennard/id1485907203?i=1000474955740

Are you experiencing mood swings, food cravings, fatigue, irritability, depression and or anxiety? If you are a woman these can be signs and symptoms of PMS or changes in your hormones. Women are more likely to have mental health issues because they linked to hormonal changes. Dr. Allyce K. Jones, is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner specializing in women’s mental health. She is especially interested in treating women during reproductive transitions including with mental health symptoms premenstrually, in pregnancy and the postpartum period, and during perimenopause. Dr. Jones will address the significant mental health challenges for women through the life cycle of changes in hormones from puberty to menopause. She reports that changes in hormones can be a "high stakes" time women's mental health. During puberty young women have double the rates of depression as young men. Dr. Jones states this is because during hormonal fluctuation the brain is more sensitive. She will talk about connecti

A health challenge for many people is the struggle with trying to lose weight. Many try diets, supplements, work outs, fitness trainers, and pills to get the weight off. It can be an emotional roller coaster. You may experience success, discouragement, and a cycle of ups and downs. The journey of weight release is personal, it's self-discovery, it's transformation, and it's about self-love.Brandon Halford is a the manager of commercial sales at Larry H. Miller Subaru, he is an entrepreneur, a Utah State graduate, a book club goer, and someone who has "remade himself" through the journey of weight release. Brandon shares with us his personal journey with anxiety, overeating, and physical health problems. He will shares how he made ONE simple New Year's resolution to stop eating sugar because he was unhappy and had no energy. He will inspire us with his journey to ultimately release 95 lbs of weight and the emotional and mental burdens tied to it. He shares how his desire to "be better" overwhelmed his des

Aida Woodward, is a DoTerra Wellness Advocate who lives what she promotes. She loves to teach about healthy lifestyle habits and how essential oils can promote health in the body. Aida will tell us about her own struggles with weight, stomach issues, Epstein-Barr, body fatigue, and colds that just wouldn't go away. Aida will share how beginning whole foods supplements improved her mood, energy, immune system, and overrall health and well-being. Aida shares how taking a whole food supplement promotes healthy hair, skin, bones and nails and that it will give your body what it needs. Aida has a passion for wellness including eating whole foods, moving her body, and learning what herbs and plants can help with certain health issues. Aida says that we are never to old to start taking care of our health. She encourages people to think about how they can prolong their life and have a better quality of life through taking care of yourself. Aida explains how important it is to put our health as a priority in

Where does health start? Is it in your gut, your brain, your body? What if it all starts in your mouth? For the past two decades, Janice King has carried out extensive research on oral health and its connection to systemic deseases. Together with co-founder Dale Winetroub, Janice developed a breakthrough patented oral therapeutics system: TRI-OLOGY (used and recommeded by dentists for 10 years). “TRI-OLOGY” technology addresses a key risk factor linked to chronic diseases - inflammation. Janice informs us about the importance of balance in our gum health in having the right balance in the microbiom and necessary bacteria in the mouth. Janice says that for years we have been using products for our hygiene that are full of chemicals that kill good and bad bacteria as well as destroying human cells. Janice talks about how in our quest for improved health we must look at what we put into our mouths. She says that we need healthy saliva to heal our bodies and ultimately influence our overall health. She share

What are your New Year's Resolutions? What do you want to BE, DO, or HAVE in 2020? It seems like every January we are excited to leave the old year behind and start anew. We are motivated and ready to make change. When February comes we lose our steam and our inspiration and all our goals go out the window. Does it have to be this way? Can we find consistent motivation to not just reach our goals, but transform our lives? Christine Lavulo from "A Beautiful Life Coaching" is a Transformation Coach who is passionate about helping people create their most beautiful and authentic life! She has been engaged in personal development since a very young age. But it wasn't until she found various energy modalities and hired a life coach that her life really began to change. Christine shares with us her challenges with depression, being a single mom, and having her own emotional and mental blocks. Christine helps people have better relationships and "create their best life." Christine will share how her challenge

Am I beautiful? Am I as beautiful as others? What does being beautiful mean? Loving ourselves is a life long journey. For many women the subject of beauty can be painful. Rachel Buchanan has a long history of supporting women's health. After having an Acupuncture practice emphasizing natural remedies for women's health she noticed how each woman's environment, including her beauty and personal care products, were effecting her physical health. Rachel reports clients being diagnosed with diseases where the environment contributed to the decline of their health. Rachel shares about how many beauty products contain harmful ingredients and there is a lack of government regulation in personal care products. This led Rachel to finding a natural beauty product line that advocates for skin health in Washington D.C. Our skin is the largest organ in the body and absorbs whatever we put on it into our system. Rachel reports that 90% of products have not been tested for human safety. She feels it is a basic righ

Wade Lightheart is a 3-Time Canadian All Natural Bodybuilding Champion who competed as vegetarian, former Mr. Universe Competitor, and host of The Awesome Health podcast. Wade Lightheart is one of the world’s premier authorities on Natural Nutrition and Training Methods.In this episode Wade with share with us his experience with transforming his body and health through exercise, vegetarian diet, and body building. He will show us how to build the body from the inside out to feel more energy, vitality, and become our best. He explains how health is not about what we look like, but what we put into our gut. He will educate us on how our body converts enzymes into energy and how to improve our digestion and absorption of food through nutritional supplementation including enzymes, probiotics, and hydrochloric acid. Wade shows us how to rebuild our digestion to get more out of life. He will help us explore how to get rid of gas, bloating, constipation, acid reflux and other symptoms that many of us live with

You are what you eat, right? So if you want to be strong eat the strong foods. If you want to prevent disease, impact aging, and improve your mental focus, clarity, and mood, eat superfoods! What are superfoods anyway? Melissa Lambson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Energy Worker, and promoter of holistic health and nutrition. Melissa has always believed that what we put in our body influences our brain chemistry. She became really passionate about this when her 6 year old son was diagnosed with Autism. As a mother she was looking for anything she could to help her son improve his physical and mental state. She tried diet modification, pills, and behavioral interventions. Melissa's quest led her to learn about the inflammation of the brain effected by poor nutrition. She discovered that our soil is depleted and our food doesn't have all the nutrients we need. Sometimes our bodies can't absorb what we do eat. Melissa was introduced by her nurse practitioner to something new. A superfood supplem

Shantel Reitz was crowned Mrs Premier World 2019, and is known as the "Blue Haired Beauty Queen." Shantel's platform, "Embrace Your Inner Weirdo" is about empowering others to becomethe person they were always meant to be. She says we are living our lives based on other people's idea of who we should be, making choices rooted in someone else's agenda for our lives. Shantel shares the pain she experienced after suffering serious abuse in her childhood and wondering if she would ever be able to overcome the shame. Shantel talks about how she transformed her story from feeling like a victim, to feeling empowered to be herself. She talks about how she set boundaries and released relationships that didn't serve her. Her story propelled her desire to help women be empowered to find and live their own their self worth. To learn how to love and care for themselves. Shantel helps women experience exercise and fitness as a way to love themselves, not something else to shame themselves about. She teaches people to

Integrating skilled physical therapy with the latest advances in modern pain neuroscience, McKay Murdock offers a personalized and empowered approach to your health and healing, with a special emphasis on helping people with chronic pain conditions.McKay’s treatment approach has evolved and expanded with time and experience, being informed by both western and eastern medicine philosophies. He is a doctor of physical therapy, board certified as an orthopedic specialist, received postgraduate training to perform dry needling (a deep muscle technique using acupuncture needles), regularly performs spine and joint manipulations (similar to chiropractic adjustments), and uses other soft-tissue techniques such as myofascial cupping and IASTM. Skilled hands-on treatments can be very effective in restoring healthy movement and catalyzing your body’s natural healing process. However, McKay is always intentional to not allow a relationship of dependency with these modalities. True healing happens from the inside out. It

Kat Keddington is the CoFounder of True Love Skin Care, Speaker, and Podcaster. Being the CoFounder of True Love Skin Care and the head of sales has brought a desire to put her dreams into tangible results, the dream of true and pure success in everyday greatness. She has always had a desire to make a difference in this world for better and TLSC has given her that amazing opportunity. Kat shares with us her passion for natural skin care and the ingredients that make for healthy vibrant skin. She will share how she transformed her health from the outside in through her skin. After significant allergies to preservatives she was looking for natural skin care. She will share with us how she and her sister started a natural skin care product line for everything from wrinkles, eczema, warts, dandruff, bug bites and everything inbetween. Do you want to have healthy radiant skin fed with the pure nutrition (skintrition)? Kat will explain how True Love Skin Care started with a wart paste made of plant extracts, min

Dr. Tom Incledon is recognized as one of the world's leading experts in the areas of human health and athletic performance and is spearheading cutting-edge wellness and cancer treatment as the founder of Causenta Wellness. Dr. Tom will share how he became passionate about the science of wellness. He talks about his own experience with illness and being able to improve his health by giving his body what it needs. He shares how every human biology is unique and that health care should be a personalized process. Dr. Tom helps people explore what micro nutrients the body may need. Dr Tom will talk about exploring threats to your health and how illnesses can be healed through giving it the right environment. Dr Tom works to improve your unique biology and physiology. He talks about eliminating guess work in health care and testing each individual to know what foods have negative and positive impacts on their health. Dr. Tom talks helps people explore their individual health needs and to not get distracted or

You've heard it before. You are what you eat. Food can "kill" or it can "heal." Tune into this episode and learn about the secrets of the fabulous Vilia Van Tonder, a chef and culinary artist for our Mindfulness in the Mountains Retreats. Vilia joins us live at the Utah Podcast Summit to share her wisdom and expertise in the wonders of food creation from the garden to the plate. Vilia grew up in France where she ate food straight from the garden and she will share the joy of eating whole living foods and preparing them in a way that everyone will enjoy them. Vilia has taken vegetables from bland to fabulous is cooking vegetables with special pots to keep the nutrients and flavor of the natural food.When we don't eat right we can feel it. When we are eating living foods we take the energy from the food into our lives. Food can be an amazing experience of taste, color, flavor, and nutrition. Vilia will share her passion for food, cooking, spices, and mindfulness in enjoying and savoring delicious whole food

Carlyn Shaw is an Synchronicity Simulator, Connection Coach, Motivational Writer and Speaker and the Founder of "Strangers To Friends." At 19 years old, Carlyn was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, followed by the death of two best friends in separate accidents. This profound physical and spiritual awakening ignited her intuitive super power. Now self healed from MS, Carlyn trusts nothing happens to her, rather for her. Carlyn shares how awareness and action in face of adversity propelled her forward. She talks about the power of our stories and how we can shift the stories to better serve us. Carlyn will share with us how she was able to let go of limiting beliefs and say YES to her life. Carlyn will share with us the ups and downs after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and what help and support she created and received. She will inspire us to recognize the power of choice over our thoughts and our situation. She will teach us how to open ourselves up to possibilities. When we connect and liste

Fifty Two Memories will start you on a journey to collect and share memories. DeVonya Madsen shares how her oldest daughter gave her this gift when she left for college. Every week, for a year, she emailed a memory of something done together. Those stories were just what she needed when her first child left home. After she finished, she decided to do the same thing for her mom. Every Sunday at dinner she set a typed memory on her plate before the family meal. She said, "this is a way for me to share how much our adventures meant to me and to create a legacy for our family to keep."Who do you want to learn more about? Could you make a difference in someone’s life by sharing your memories of them? “The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that we will remember.” What if you don’t write them down, who will? Devonya will share how her online course will get you started in documenting memories and creating connection! There are 52 topics and activities and approaches to getting and giving memories. You will be able t

Do you know how valuable you are? Do you struggle with depression, feelings of low-self worth, self-judgement, and hopelessness? Depression effects over 10 million Americans and has been called a National Health Crisis. We know this but why are we still afraid to talk about it? There are stigmas about depression including being a "lesser" person or "abnormal" and feeling shame about being depressed. Yet depression is so common. Lark Dean Galley is a strong business woman who recently lost her son to suicide. At first she tried to keep it a secret because of the stigma, shame, and judgement she feared. Many people reached out to her sharing their stories of depression, suicide, and anxiety. Lark then felt she had a responsibility, obligation, and mission to share her story and open up a vulnerable real conversation about mental health and suicide. Listen as Lark shares how to make this a "safe" conversation between parents, kids, family, and the community. Lark has a message to parents to help them be