Your health starts in your mouth. Jessica shares her expertise as a former dentist, oral health expert and health coach, highlighting how oral health impacts your overall health. You may have heard of leaky gut, but are you familiar with leaky mouth? Your mouth has a microbiome just like your gut. Jessica offers practical tips about eating habits that allow saliva to do its job correctly and her other pillars for maintaining excellent health, sleep, breathing, and movement. Oral bacteria infection impacts your brain and heart health, and prioritizing the mouth is just as important as prioritizing good sleep.

Jessica shares her unique perspective as a Swede living in the USA and how the cultures differ around eating. We discuss the American phenomenon of snacking and how the digestive system, along with the microbiome of the mouth, prefers time in between meals and eating to reset for optimal function and health. The functional nutrition rhythm is eat, digest, rest.

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Topics Covered:

• From Sweden to gold pro to American dental school
• Disconnection between medicine and dentistry
• Ingest, digest, rest
• Importance of gathering when eating
• Growing microgreens
• Gum recession
• Value of health tracking
• Four pillars of sustainable health

Connect with Jessica Lederhausen DDS, MPh:

• Follow Jessica on Instagram
• Learn more on Jessica’s website
• Connect with Jessica on Linkedin
• Read more on the Lago Method blog
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• Buy Jessica’s book on AMAZON

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Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

Marie Helene is a true innovator in the wellness space. We discuss Marie Helene’s early years working in dolphin rebirthing therapy. Part of the healing comes from the environment of being in the water, which is like being in the womb. There are so many lessons communicated through nature that are not available in most normal modern environments. Wild environments truly bring wild experiences!

Dolphins aren’t always immediately available, of course, and we discuss an immediately accessible technique for reconnecting with nature called the sit spot. Reconnecting with nature is essential to reconnect with our essence. This is the path to aging with grace and part of Helene Marie’s mission to re-educate people about aging. Instead of experiencing aging as approaching the end of life, it’s the time when we can experience the most beautiful aspects of life and expand into who we’ve always wanted to be.

Marie shares a powerful practice for redefining your purpose and bringing your real motivations to the surface so they can be celebrated or worked on. Attitude is everything when it comes to aging, and I hope this episode inspires you to lean into your age, whatever that may be!

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Topics Covered:

• Marie Helene’s wellness journey
• Dolphin therapy for healing
• The Sit Spot practice
• Changing the aging conversation
• Redefine your purpose
• Asking the why five times practice
• Being an eternal student

Past Episodes Mentioned:

• Gestalt Equine Therapy with Melissa Clary

Connect with Marie Helene Roussell:

• Learn more on Marie’s website
• Connect with Marie on Facebook
• Follow Marie on Instagram
• Connect with Marie on LinkedIn
• Follow Marie on TikTok

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Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

After catching up with my friend Amy Boyle recently, whom I’ve known since 2010, I felt compelled to share her full circle story and how it relates to a woman’s lifecycle. Amy’s story reminds me of how remarkable women are. At every stage, from mom to caregiver, from artist to teacher, from professional to being in service, women have the capacity to shapeshift to whatever situation presents at any given time.

Amy vulnerably shares how the experience of caring for her mother as she prepared to transition became a treasured gift of service. Instead of halting her career or fighting what was happening, she simply allowed its trajectory to shapeshift. There’s so much wisdom in allowing for life’s great unfoldings.

As a photographer, Amy recalls that the lens is an extension of her heart. Through it, she sees and captures the goodness, beauty, energy, and spark of the world. Her vision is contagious! She then walks us through how she decided to take a leap into journalism, first as a student and now as a teacher.

The story of the courage and curiosity that runs through Amy’s family, from her mother to her son, will warm your heart. Don’t miss this positivity boost!

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Topics Covered:

• Women’s extraordinary shape shifting capacity
• Caring for family while caring for career
• Life’s invitations to be present for others
• “It’s my superpower to freeze time.”
• Learning to embrace life’s nebulousness
• The freedom to be unapologetically yourself

Connect with Amy Boyle:

• Enjoy Amy’s project, 52 Phenomenal Women
• Connect with the project on Instagram
• Learn more on Amy’s website
• Follow Amy on Instagram
• Connect with Amy on Linkedin
• Check out Amy’s podcast, Speaking of Phenomenal

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• Download the Daily Vitality eBook at https://mailchi.mp/danafrost/vitallyyou

Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

With anxiety and depression at an all-time high, adapting our lifestyle to better deal with these symptoms has never been more important. Carrie Bailey joins me on Vitally You® to investigate the root causes of anxiety and depression, what she’s learned through healing her own, and how making small shifts in food choices can leave a huge impact.

Carrie shares practical insights on food combining, such as the importance of eating fruits and vegetables away from fats. This simple adjustment can significantly improve digestion and energy levels, particularly in the liver. She also explains why fresh produce is superior in nourishing the body, the connection between oxalates and fatigue, and the body’s affinity for food-based cleanses. Carrie concludes with her transformative morning routine and two actionable lifestyle tips for those battling anxiety and depression.

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Topics Covered:

• Lifestyle-based tips for anxiety and depression
• Genes and epigenetics relative to anxiety and depression
• Food combining to support liver function and assimilation
• Amino acids and protein in the body
• Midlife anxiety, oxalates, and fatigue

Resources Mentioned:

• The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates
• The Medical Medium

Connect with Carrie Bailey:

• Learn more on Carrie’s website
• Follow Carrie on Instagram
• Connect with Carrie’s content on Youtube
• Download Carrie's gift: A Step-By-Step Plan To Help You Ditch Anxiety, Panic Attacks & Depression Symptoms For Good

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• Download the Daily Vitality eBook at danafrost.com/daily-vitality/

Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

When was the last time you felt stressed out? How about real inner ease? Katie Richardson joins me on Vitally You® to talk about how we can feel at ease in stressful situations. Today’s episode marks the beginning of Vitally You® conversations around building resilience, calm, and inner ease.

Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it is when allowed to stay past it’s welcome. Katie shares ways that she supports clients to reframe stress as a catalyst of growth and instead choose to confront it with her V.I.T.A.L. framework. Katie tells the story of how she took hold of her life and business piece by piece, learning to intentionally create herself. Her experiences in business, moving around the world, and as a busy mother have shown her that in order to move forward in our lives, we must establish the truth of our present reality. By walking toward what feels scary or sticky, we become someone stronger and changed in the process, and that’s where the real magic of growth lives!

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Topics Covered:

• The root cause of stress
• Lessons learned in choosing the unknown
• Katie’s V.I.T.A.L. framework to find agency among stress
• Attuning the body to the truth
• Taking action to intentionally create yourself
• How Katie works through negative emotions
• The importance of body acceptance

Resources Mentioned:

• Josh Tap, The Lucky Titan podcast
• Dr. Martha Beck
• Byron Katie and The Work

Connect with Katie Richardson:

• Learn more on Katie’s website
• Follow Katie on Instagram
• Listen to the What’s Working Now podcast

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Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

My childhood friend and accomplished poet, Michelle Delaine Williams, joins me on Vitally You® to talk about her poetry chapbook, Good Work for Small Hands.

Her book centers around her childhood in Missouri and her relationship with her mother. She shares that reflecting on those memories was profoundly cathartic, which really comes through in several of the poems she recites for us.

Michelle’s poem, Sprout, which she reads beautifully, transports the listener into a young person’s world of feelings. Sprout invites a conversation about taking responsibility for our own lives no matter how they began. Since becoming a grandmother twice within the last 18 months, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we come into this world and the importance of our upbringing in shaping our future. Michelle’s poems are portals to reconnecting with our younger selves and learning the ways that they wish to be present in our lives.

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Topics Covered:

• Michelle’s inspiration behind Good Work for Small Hands
• Michelle’s path to becoming a writer
• Writing rituals and journaling practices
• Exploring beauty alongside pain in memory
• How Michelle finds feeling younger while growing older

Resources Mentioned:

• Learn more about LifeWave
• Read Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood
• Read The Creative Act: A way of being by Rick Rubin

Past Episodes Mentioned:

• Vitally You Episode 25 Healing Your Inner Child to Thrive as an Adult

Connect with Michelle Delaine Williams:

• Good Work for Small Hands is available from Finishing Line Press, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble
• Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn

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Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

Did you know that your “vibe” is a real, palpable thing? This week, I'm sharing how you can neutralize triggering emotions and calm your body when you feel anxious, stressed, and depleted using very simple science-backed breathing techniques.

Your heart is so smart that it knows your feelings based on the vibration broadcast throughout your body. All feelings either fuel positive or negative charges in the body. How people experience you is through this vibration; the energy that is broadcast emanates from your heart rate variability.

I share the story of how I first discovered this connection and how healing the heart has more to do with the mind and emotions. This ultimately led me to discover the HeartMath®️ Institute. Through HeartMath®,️ I discovered their scientific breathing techniques that taught me how to calm triggering emotions and restore coherence throughout my mind and body system.

HeartMath® techniques neutralize triggering emotions during stressful periods, which will otherwise negatively impact your heart rate. This is important because the brain decides the next best action based on your heart rate. The techniques restore coherence between the heart and the brain rhythms by promoting positive emotional states such as appreciation, compassion, and gratitude.

I then introduce the emotional compass, which illustrates how certain emotions impact the nervous system. This framework gives a deeper understanding of how, why, and when the brain releases either stress hormones or happy hormones. To encourage the happy hormones, I offer detailed instructions on how to perform three HeartMath®️ breathing techniques: Heart-Focused Breathing®, the Inner Ease®, and the Heart Lock-In®.

Our nervous system can get stuck in flight, fight, or freeze, and can potentially compromise our health and immunity. I leave several questions for listeners to ask themselves to gain deeper insight into their own connection between heart and brain, as well as breath, body, and emotions.

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Topics Covered:

• How I discovered the heart’s connection to our emotional system
• Restoring coherence between heart and brain rhythms
• The emotional compass framework illuminates stress and happiness triggers
• 3 HeartMath®️ breathing techniques
• Links between emotions, breath, and disease

Resources Mentioned:

• Learn more about LifeWave
• Read The Heart Speaks by Mimi Guarneri
• Learn more about Inner Balance

Get in Touch:

• Become an insider and sign up for My Newsletter — scroll down to the box "Don't Miss A Thing"
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Special offers:

• Download the Daily Vitality eBook at danafrost.com/daily-vitality/

Credit:

• Podcast Production by the team at The Wave Podcasting
• Music by Phoebe Greenland
• Photography by Amy Boyle Photography
• Podcast art by SimplyBe. Agency