The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Laurie
What children are subtly learning about being human by our own presence and reactions
Our children can bump into places in us that are not resolved
What they learn about if sadness or anger is welcome even within themselves
How to shift so your child isn’t inadvertently responsible for managing our nervous system for us
The most powerful things we can model for our children and it isn’t being perfect
How can my child know what I feel without making them responsible for what I feel
Children don’t need a parent who never gets activated; they need to know that they won’t be abandoned because of the activation
How do we listen and communicate in a way where each person is taking responsibility for their perspectives
Empathy and boundaries can exist together, and the downside of doing everything for our kids is that it makes us feel good, but they learn that we don’t think they are capable
Not every childhood pattern looks dysfunctional from the outside. Maybe I became patient because anger wasn’t safe. Or I do everything because being needed feels like love
Questioning: “Am I choosing this or am I compelled to do this?”
Our job is not to make our children happy, it is to alow them to struggle and teach them they can handle it, to teach them all parts of them are welcome and they are still responsible for their actions 
Moving away from reactive parenting to intentional parenting and how to repair when needed
“Who are we committed to being as a family?”
Learning and teaching the distinction between doing and being
How to repair when we don’t handle things like we wish we had
Resources Mentioned
The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
The One Thing Underneath Everything
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! book
Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.
Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

Episode Highlights From Laurie
Why just knowing why we do something isn’t enough to shift it
Her start in psychology and what she learned through her own experience as well
How to be freer inside moments that used to run you 
What does the body have to do with changing emotional patterns
It isn’t that behavioral change is unimportant; it is just a doorway, not the destination
Often, the pattern starts in the body before the mind, but we think it starts in the mind, and that we can change it only with the mind
The body becomes a doorway into slowing down and how this is so important
Can you notice what is happening inside of you without trying to change it or explain it
Experience is made up of three things: thoughts, feelings, and physical experience
What does SEE - BREATHE - STAY look like in an ordinary moment?
Differentiating what happened vs. what we make it mean
Healing in a relationship: Can I bring those old activations into the relationship 
The difference between mindfulness and actually staying with ourselves in emotional moments
Being aware of not bypassing or abandoning when staying with a feeling
Not “can I get rid of this feeling” but “can I remain with myself while the feeling is still here”
We spend so much of our life trying to control our external world so we don’t have to feel certain things, and how to shift this
Resources Mentioned
Follow her on Facebook, and Instagram
The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
The One Thing Underneath Everything
BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama
LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Angel
What iridology is and how it actually works
Her work with thousands of people and how the eye can be an insight into health
How she got into this work and how this has been practiced for centuries
There are 28,000 nerve endings that come into the eye
Iridology can’t see blood pressure or blood, but can see most other things
This is not a diagnostic tool but a complementary one
What stress lines are in the eyes, and what they can indicate
Personality lines in the eyes and what they can tell you about someone 
What shows up most in women and moms, and the patterns she sees most
Her Iris-Hormone map and what she can see based on these
Cortisol is the base of the hormone hierarchy, and she sees this in many people
Her one-week plan to help start moving cortisol in a positive direction
Eyes do not lie (but people can)
There are four spots in the eye that show the pancreas and can indicate a person is consuming too much sugar for them, even if they think they are low-carb
Importance of real food protein
Thyroid deep dive related to the eye
Some easy and free tools to improve insulin sensitivity 
Too much exercise and under-eating can be big problems, especially for women
She looks at the gut whenever the thyroid is off
Resources Mentioned
Dr. Angel's website and free gift
Follow Angel on Instagram and Facebook
Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order.

Episode Highlights With Laila
How to create a strong family foundation with structure, values, healthy habits and connection
Boxing was her outlet when she was younger and what she learned through that
Why she wrote a children's book to inspire kids to follow their spark
The importance of physical outlets for kids 
Why her dad didn’t want her to box and why she did it anyway
Resources Mentioned
Connect with Laila on Instagram and Facebook
A Spark of Greatness: The Autobiography of a Fighter by Laila Ali
Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit and Personal Power by Laila Ali
Free signed, personalized book plates from Laila
Laila Ali Lifestyle - Spice blends
Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

Episode Highlights With Lora and Elmira
How they got into looking deeper at the oral microbiome and the connection to oral health
Root cause factors of oral health that many people don’t realize 
Oral health can be a missing part of the puzzle that most people don’t look into
What oral testing is and what it can help reveal
The specific pathogens they test for and the ones they actively work on
Oral environment is microbially rich and the balance of bacteria matters
Most common things they see flagged on oral tests and which ones they take seriously 
A big myth about oral microbiome balance 
H. pylori can appear in the mouth and be linked to periodontal disease
How the airway can impact oral health and why this is important, especially with kids
Resources Mentioned
Orobiome Test
Follow Laura on Instagram
Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 
LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.