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Holiday Self-Care Tips: This can be a stressful time of year for everyone. Add chronic illness to the mix and it can be totally daunting. Like, is there a cave I can hide in until January 2nd daunting. Join me and Eva Hagberg Fisher as we embark on a discussion about holiday self-care tips and […]
Listen NowShow Notes: Samantha Story (samanthastory.com ) is an acupuncturist, specializing in cosmetic acupuncture and a breathwork healer. Samantha became passionate about natural beauty as an aging woman for personal reasons, but her passion grew as she worked with more and more women displaying self-esteem issues. This is an episode about tapping in to the reservoir of […]
Listen NowAmy Marcs, Sex and (Self) Love after a Double Mastectomy: In 2009, Amy received a breast cancer diagnosis and intuitively knew that a double mastectomy was her best option—no easy decision for “a petite Jewish girl with great boobs.” (No easy decision for anyone, ever). Marcs loved her breasts—her journey through the grieving process is […]
Listen NowShona Curley’s Lyme Journey: Shona is one of the seemingly lucky ones: She found the tick and pulled it out. But, even that didn’t stop chronic lyme disease symptoms from appearing, and, surprisingly, it also didn’t streamline her diagnosis. There’s no doubt that, in Northern California where Lyme disease is prevalent, Shona should have been […]
Listen NowGraves’ Disease The autoimmune version of hyperthyroidism, Graves’ disease affects mostly women and many people go misdiagnosed. For Dominique, a stressful event in her junior year of college marked the beginning of Graves’ symptoms—she was plagued by heat intolerance, weight loss, insomnia, tremors, and anxiety. Because Graves’ is often genetic and Dominique’s mother also […]
Listen NowAfter two decades of harsh and debilitating symptoms, Jill Skibba finally got the Lyme testing she had been begging doctors for all along. The test came back lit up like a Christmas tree: Positive and then some. Find out what test was taken to get the reliable results, what Jill did/does to get better, […]
Listen NowI saw the Facebook statuses—my newsfeed was full of brave women coming forward, openly talking about personal experiences with sexual harassment… #metoo, and then some. And it made me—me the “healing out loud” girl—uncomfortable. What in the fuck? I couldn’t believe that this patriarchy-conditioned part of me that I thought was dead was suddenly awake […]
Read More“Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down was playing as a crowd pleaser in-between sets at a Maui music venue. It was 2011—too many years since Kryptonite had been popular. But that’s typical of time-lagging-feet-dragging island life. I rolled my eyes because I was an artsy snob from New York City, but secretly I loved the song. […]
Read MoreWe left early in the morning for Sequoia National Park last Tuesday. I woke up excited for an adventure—a new place, lots of rocks, big trees, and people I love to share life with. I showered, put on in-the-car clothes, double-checked my suitcase for hiking boots, warm socks, an iPhone charger, and sunscreen. We had […]
Read MoreStored trauma is Lyme disease’s best friend. They play off of each other like school yard bullies relentlessly tormenting the mind, body, and spirit. Lyme is an opportunistic disease and tends to jump on those whose systems are already compromised. Personally, I had a weakened immune system from years of infections and antibiotics, I had […]
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