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When “Healthy Living” Isn’t Enough: Chronic Infections, Immune Dysfunction & Rebuilding Resilience

Jamie had done all the “right” things—gluten- and dairy-free, focused on gut health, and living a holistic lifestyle. Yet she still struggled with recurring illness, fatigue, IBS symptoms, anxiety, and inflammation despite normal lab work.

In this episode, Elizabeth and Jamie explore how chronic infections, immune dysregulation, and unresolved pathogen burden can be the missing piece behind long-standing health issues. After a difficult season of strep, mono, walking pneumonia, Influenza A, and repeated antibiotic use, Jamie discovered deeper factors affecting her recovery, including Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses.

Together, they discuss functional immunology, clinical and classical homeopathy, rebuilding immune resilience, and learning to trust your body again.

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Nourishing the Nervous System

Bless you.  What's that?  You didn't sneeze?  Well, let's pretend you did.  While your lungs and nose were involved, it was your immune system telling the nervous system to make a sneeze happen: air intake, lungs contract with force, throat open, yada..yada…. The immune system sensed a possible invader or cell/pathogen/mucous that needed expelled from the body and ordered up a sneeze that the nervous system made happen.  

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When Your Child’s ADHD Symptoms Lead You to Your Own Healing: A Mom + Two Daughters’ Story

In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Kelly Riley, MS, NTP, founder of Foundations Nutritional Wellness and Osteostrong Westfield Indiana, about the healing journey that unfolded across her entire family. What began as support for her daughter Sloane’s anxiety, gut issues, and inattentive ADHD quickly uncovered deeper patterns of Lyme, Babesia, Mycoplasma, strep, immune dysregulation, and chronic inflammation affecting multiple family members — including Kelly herself after a Botox-type filler injury.

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Why Some People Stay Sick: Immune Imbalance, Chronic Infections & the Missing Piece in Healing

Why do some people recover from illness while others stay stuck in cycles of fatigue, allergies, gut issues, anxiety, chronic infections, or autoimmune symptoms?

Why do others who get a tick bite contract Lyme Disease and others don’t?

In our season opener, we're unpacking the immune system, chronic inflammation, triggering events, and the functional immunology lens that drives nearly every client success story we see.

Your body isn't broken. Your symptoms are communication.

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From the Inside Out: Building Immunity by Addressing the Root

You've been trying to figure out your kiddo's health thing or maybe even your own… Is it my mold or is it the food sensitivities, maybe its the MTHFR genes, or maybe it's just perimenopause or her puberty setting in….  SURPRISE: it's everything! (But mostly your immune system).  

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Can you feel that it's Allergy Season?That happened quick!

Allergy season is upon us, and many people begin noticing symptoms like sneezing, watery eyes, nasal congestion, itching, and fatigue. As trees begin to pollinate in early spring, these symptoms can flare quickly—especially for those who are sensitive to environmental allergens. Supporting the body early in the season can often help reduce the intensity of symptoms and make the season much more manageable.

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How NET Therapy Can Help Set the Body Free: How Emotions Get Stuck in the Body with Sara Semenick

What if the pain or illness you’re facing isn’t just physical — but emotional too?

In this episode, Elizabeth sits down with Sara Semenick, LMFT of Deeper Roots Counseling to explore Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) — a mind-body therapy that helps release emotional stress stored in the body.

They discuss how emotions can become “stuck” in specific organs, how trauma patterns create physical tension and disease, and how NET can help the body remember what safety feels like again. Sara shares incredible client stories — including one woman who used NET as part of her cancer-healing journey and is now cancer free and how PANDAS parents can use NET for emotional support on their care journey. 

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When Emotions Block Fertility — and How Somatic Therapy Opens the Body to Life

Can emotions actually block fertility? In this episode, Elizabeth sits down with her dear friend Dr. English Goldsborough - a Naturopathic Doctor, Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Practitioner - to explore how unprocessed emotions and chronic stress can quietly signal the body that it’s not safe to conceive.

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When Love Hurts Your Health: Healing from Toxic Relationships, Reclaiming Your Power and Health

Toxic relationships don’t just break hearts and stretch our souls - they break down the body.  They deplete nutrients, activate autoimmunity and ignite chronic infections like Epstein Barr and Shingles.  

In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Kristina, coach, speaker, and author of Rise Up and Thrive: How to Break Cycles of Toxic and Traumatic Relationships to Create Healthy Love.

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Holiday Boundaries - Protecting Peace for You and Your Kids

The holidays can bring warmth and joy - but also pressure, guilt, and emotional overload.

In this episode, Elizabeth sits down with Brooke Ervin, owner of Apricus Counseling Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, to talk about what happens to our bodies when we overextend emotionally - and how healthy boundaries can protect both our peace and our physical health.

They unpack how chronic stress around family, travel, and expectations can disrupt the nervous system, immune balance, and even children’s emotional regulation. Then, they share practical, compassionate ways to simplify, say no, and model emotional safety this season - with confidence! 

If you’ve ever left the holidays feeling drained, resentful, or overstimulated, this conversation will help you reimagine what “making it magical” really means - for your whole family’s well-being.

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