The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Katie Why, after 1,100 episodes, health was never really the destinationHow my view of the body shifted from something broken to fix to an intelligent, adaptive systemThe difference between supporting your body and obsessively monitoring itWhy optimizing health is a means to living more fully, not the end goalHow attachment to identity and others’ perceptions can quietly create sufferingThe freedom of not needing everyone to understand youWhat the Stoic idea of amor fa...

Episode Highlights With Peter Humans are photosynthetic and why this is important to understandPhotosynthetic means synthesizing usable energy from photonsWater is photoelectric and what this meansHumans are photosynthetic because water is photoelectricWe are 99% water by molecule count and 70% by weight so we are essentially a water solar panelWhy many humans are a solar battery operating at 1% of their optimal solar energy intakeWhat happens with mitochondria and ATP when we interact with l...

Episode Highlights With Laurie What children are subtly learning about being human by our own presence and reactionsOur children can bump into places in us that are not resolvedWhat they learn about if sadness or anger is welcome even within themselvesHow to shift so your child isn’t inadvertently responsible for managing our nervous system for usThe most powerful things we can model for our children and it isn’t being perfectHow can my child know what I feel without making them responsible f...

Episode Highlights From Laurie Why just knowing why we do something isn’t enough to shift itHer start in psychology and what she learned through her own experience as wellHow to be freer inside moments that used to run you What does the body have to do with changing emotional patternsIt isn’t that behavioral change is unimportant; it is just a doorway, not the destinationOften, the pattern starts in the body before the mind, but we think it starts in the mind, and that we can change it o...

Episode Highlights With Angel What iridology is and how it actually worksHer work with thousands of people and how the eye can be an insight into healthHow she got into this work and how this has been practiced for centuriesThere are 28,000 nerve endings that come into the eyeIridology can’t see blood pressure or blood, but can see most other thingsThis is not a diagnostic tool but a complementary oneWhat stress lines are in the eyes, and what they can indicatePersonality lines in the eyes an...