In this episode of IMperfectly Healthy, Faith interviews Kelly Fisher of SoCal Medium, a certified medium and psychic located in beautiful San Diego, California. She has sensed the spirit world for as long as she can remember.  Kelly has read for people all over the country to help them connect to the spirit realm. Her spiritual gifts allow her to connect to clients' loved ones who have crossed over. She brings through healing messages and evidence of existence on the other side. Kelly is able to convey clear messages from the spirit world through her readings. In this episode, you are going to hear Kelly share: her own journey of discovering, embracing and mastering her intuitive gifts. what it takes to develop and hone psychic abilities how personal growth and healing is crucial for intuitives the importance of mentors to assist you on the path of becoming intuitive how the work and evolution is never complete intuition is a combo of gift and skill how your personal development is crucial for honing the clarity of your intuition how Spirit tries to communicate with us how she speaks to her kids about Spirit and death how to start connecting to your own guidance Connect with Kelly: Website: https://socalmedium.com/ Facebook Instagram  Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

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#048 Connecting and Communicating with the Spirit World with Kelly Fisher, SoCal Medium

In this episode of IMperfectly Healthy, Faith interviews Carly Rose, an activation coach, mentor and teacher. Carly Rose brings 30 years experience in working with individuals to create their Best Life ever.  She has years of training in body mind practices, breath work practices, meditation, grounding and inner child work.  Her specialty is to assist others into stepping into Wholeness by releasing the obstacles of the past.  Go from stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and fear and into Clarity, Wisdom, Power, and a life of Ease.   So whether you are looking for a Renewed Sense of Self, Health and Well-being, or Honoring and Including yourself in the Equation of Your Life, Carly will support you in creating a Whole New You from the inside out and designing the Life that your Heart and Soul are calling you to. In this episode, you are going to hear Carly share: her own journey of recovering from self help exhaustion and claiming her wholeness an overview of the human bio-field flowing optimally and how it gets blocked the energetics of the nervous system how easy it is for people on a personal development and healing path to get stuck on the self help hamster wheel, going nowhere fast how to activate your own life force energy who you are at your core essence how to use breath work to clear energetic blocks in your body what true awakening is how to claim your wholeness no matter what is going on for you the importance of the heart and womb connection Visual of BioEnergetics Toric Field by Dr. Sue Morter   WATCH the interview Here   Connect with Carly: Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/carol.rothman333 Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/sacredrose333/ Email:  lifedesigners1@gmail.com   Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#047 Choosing Wholeness: Accessing Divinity within Your Own Body with Carly Rose

In this episode of IMperfectly Healthy, Faith interviews Julie Ryan -an inventor, entrepreneur and author who learned how to be a psychic and medical intuitive more than 25 years ago. After inventing a number of globally-used surgical devices and founding nine companies across the medical, long-term care, natural gas, advertising and data privacy industries, she settled into her talents as a psychic and medical intuitive, going on to write her books Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next and Angel Messages For Kids. Her podcast, Ask Julie Ryan, has listeners from all over the world, many of whom call in to partake in Julie's "buffet of psychicness". Julie Ryan can sense what medical conditions and illnesses a person has and facilitate energetic healings. She can tell how close someone is to dying, and can communicate with spirits both alive and deceased. Julie can communicate with and medically scan animals, access people's past lives and remove spirits from homes and buildings. In this episode, you are going to hear Julie share: her own journey of becoming a psychic and healer how she teachers others to be psychic in only 8 hours what inspired her to create her Angelic Attendant Training and how she was guided by Spirit to create it the benefits of being in communication with your spirit guide how she is able to do body scans and see medical issues for people, as well as provide healing on the spot. how she also reads one's aura and looks for leaks due to emotional trauma's and life events. the "Twelve Phases of Transition" meaning what happens as someone dies and leaves their physical body some universal experiences that people have as they are dying understanding near-death experiences, tragedies, past lives and reincarnation the research she is a part of to prove there is life after death tips on how to start communicating with Spirit Website - https://askjulieryan.com/ Ask Julie Ryan Podcast - https://askjulieryan.com/podcast/ Follow Julie on IG Julie's show on You Tube   Resources Mentioned: Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan Susan Austin Crumpton Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#046 Medical Intuition, Talking to Spirit and the 12 Phases of Transition with Julie Ryan

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews Sara Ness, the Founder and Chief Instigator of Authentic Revolution. She began teaching Authentic Relating in 2012, founding a thousands-strong learning community in Austin, Texas and going on to train over 350 leaders and help found 30+ other communities worldwide. Sara is passionate about exposing the joy of human connection and exploring our creative potential through relationship. She has facilitated at schools, companies, yoga studios, a funeral, Burning Man, and more, bringing playful social technology into the mainstream and the….non-mainstream. In this episode, you are going to hear Sara share: her own journey of finding and expressing her authentic self, which led to her creating Authentic Revolution to assist others in doing the same. how social conditioning impacts your self-expression how AR offers a brave space to explore your true expression and creating deeper connections with others the common experience of social anxiety how and why we show up differently depending on the group we are with how to bring these practices into your everyday life and interactions with others. discerning the sweet spot of truth telling and honoring the other. how being authentic can be mistaken for demanding to be seen. the health effects of loneliness and inauthenticity who social media consumption is not connection the connection of authentic relating, the social engagement nervous system and health & wellness how to bring these practices into your own community in a fun, inviting way communication skills you will learn in AR communities Website - https://www.authrev.org/ Join a group at https://www.authrev.org/connect-events Follow Sara and Authentic Revolution on Facebook  Follow Sara on YouTube   Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#045 The Authentic Relating Revolution with Sara Ness

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews her friend and naturopathic doctor, Dr.Christina Bjorndal. Dr. Chris is considered an authority in the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders and eating disorders using a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual approach.  Having overcome many mental health challenges, Dr. Chris is a gifted speaker and writer and has shared her wellness philosophy with audiences from platforms such as the Jenny McCarthy show, the International Bipolar Foundation, and many health summits and docuseries. She is recognized as a top ND to follow by two independent organizations. Her book “Beyond the Label” is a comprehensive guide to naturopathic mental health. Mental Health Books: Beyond the Label: 10 Steps to Improve your Mental Health with Naturopathic Medicine The Essential Diet: Eating for Mental Health Moving Beyond: A Journal into Self-Discovery Courses: Moving Beyond 10 week course Integrative Mental Health Clinician’s Course Retreat: Mental Health Masterclass In this episode, you are going to hear Dr. Chris share expertise and experience around: her own journey of transforming depression, anxiety, eating disorder, bipolar disorder and multiple suicide attempts through holistic, root cause solutions how "the label" impacted her experience in managing her challenges how being an overachiever was part of the underlying cause of her mental health illness how she experienced several maniac psychotic episodes  and suicide attempts while being on psych meds. how self-love, self-acceptance and her connection to God was key to her healing some of possible contributing factors or roots that lead to mental health challenges how infancy can set the stage for mental health illness or wellness how trauma is biggest missing piece in truly healing mental illness what typically precedes a mental breakdown  why genes cannot be blamed how soul contracts are involved in your individual life path how toxicity impacts mental health the importance of accepting the full human experience how to support the 3 macro-systems of physical level of health when addressing mental health Website - https://drchristinabjorndal.com/   Follow Dr. Chris on Facebook  Follow Dr. Chris on IG Follow Dr. Chris on YouTube   Mentioned in the show: A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth The Autism Enigma Documentary Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#044 Beyond the Label w/ Dr. Christina Bjorndal

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews Dr. Aimie Apigian, a physician, speaker and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated and Family Challenge Camps. After a few years in a traditional general surgery residency in Portland, OR, she decided to forge her career path as a Trauma, Attachment and Addiction Medicine Physician.  Inspired by her experience with adoption and foster care, her mission is to help others accelerate their healing of attachment trauma through evidence-based tools and experiences to rewire the nervous system and change the belief systems of those struggling with attachment trauma.  Having personally experienced the challenges of parenting a child with effects from attachment trauma, she is intensely invested on finding what actually works practically and the fastest to bring lasting change to those affected by trauma and attachment issues.  She is the Founder and Director for Family Challenge Camps, a non-proﬁt organization founded in 2011 providing an experiential transformative intensive for families with children with trauma and attachment issues. After working for a decade and now hundreds of adults and families with attachment trauma, she has expanded her practice to addressing the downstream effects of attachment trauma including addictions and chronic stress and related health symptoms. In addition to her traditional medical training, she is also a Functional Medicine physician and has training and certifications specifically in nutrition and genetics for addictions, mental health, mood and behavioral disorders. In this episode, you are going to hear Dr. Aimie share expertise and experience around: her own experience of adopting a foster child, healing his attachment trauma and her own, and how she helps others transform their lives and health by rewiring healthy attachment.  what attachment is: secure vs insecure and how it is the future of health signs of attachment trauma in kids how attachment styles are passed on generation to generation how 75-80% of the US population have an insecure attachment style how the common "freeze" pattern shows up the 3 biological precursors to attachment trauma the impact attachment trauma has on an adult - health, purpose, relationships, communication and more. the link between common issues such as anxiety, tension, depression, being dramatic, chronic disease and addictions, and early insecure attachment. the "healthy" practices that actually reinforce insecure attachment patterns like "freeze" and disassociation. why mindset or cognitive work alone will NOT heal this. why its never too late to rewire your attachment from insecure to secure/health. how Dr. Aimie guides parents and kids in healing attachment trauma in a safe way, step by step. the key measure of knowing if what you are doing is working or not. Website - https://www.traumahealingaccelerated.com/   Follow Dr. Aimie on Facebook  Follow Dr. Aimie on IG Follow Dr. Aimie on YouTube   JOIN a VIRTUAL SACRED BODY CIRCLE. SIGN UP HERE Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#043 Healthy Attachment Could Heal the World with Dr. Aimie Apigian

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews her friend and fellow wellness warrior, Christa Orecchio - a clinical and holistic nutritionist and founder of The Whole Journey. She helps people heal from the root cause, using food as their medicine along with a mind-body-spirit approach to improving health. Christa is a bestselling author, TV show host, and is super passionate about helping you heal your adrenals, thyroid, and nervous system in the most holistic way. Get access to Christa's FREE MINI COURSE to start shifting this right away.  In this episode, you are going to hear Christa share expertise and experience around: her own beliefs and stories that were driving her chronic stress patterns and how that lead to creating the adrenal recode approach.  how to know if you are running on stress hormones. how and why most people are addicted to being stressed out. why all dis-ease starts in the nervous system, not the gut. why eating all the right foods does nothing when your cells can properly utilize the nutrients. why most thyroid issues are being wrongly managed her 6 pillar clinical strategy to heal the thyroid, brain, adrenals and nervous system back to harmony. why keto is the worst diet for someone under chronic stress. how to find the sweet spot with exercise that supports you vs. stresses and depletes you. why you must learn to anticipate AND prioritize your own needs which is being counter-cultural. the need for emotional re-patterning to get true results. how common it is for empaths, people pleasers and over-givers to end up in nervous system chaos. some of the common limiting beliefs that drive this pattern. how to start healing this whole pattern!  Start feeling better now and SIGN UP FOR CHRISTA's FREE MINI COURSE    Listen to Christa's First Time on the Show #022     JOIN a VIRTUAL SACRED BODY CIRCLE this FALL. SIGN UP HERE Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#042 How to Recode Your Adrenals for Harmony & Well-Being with Christa Orecchio

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews her personal coach Suzanne Gundersen, who is a holistic stress relief mentor, energy tapping expert, and advanced TRE provider.  Her own early developmental trauma led her to seek holistic approaches that helped her shed layers of dysfunction, drop hundreds of pounds and use of anxiety medication.  Along the journey she uncovered her value to live with self-honor, compassion and grace. She then made a commitment to dedicate the rest of her professional life to helping others transform their stress, and connect with themselves, genuinely and deeply so they live life with real aliveness!    In this episode, you are going to hear Suzanne share expertise and experience around: her own experience with early trauma, chronic weight and anxiety struggles and how she discovered  the importance of our early developmental years and how meeting our primary needs as infants shapes our entire life. how stress plays out in the nervous system; fight, flight or freeze how freeze leads to chronic health issues how my own journey of unfreezing how and why we learn to give up authenticity for attachment the 3 M's of transforming your limiting patterns. steps to unraveling your survival patterns. importance of addressing the mind/body/energy levels. how and why we attached to our limiting stories and toxic stress patterns. how our intuition is connected to the nervous system. how 50% of what we tell about the past isn't true. Website - https://www.transformedconnections.com/   Follow Suzanne on Facebook  Follow Suzanne on IG   Resources mentioned: Matt Kahn Dr. Gabor Mate Joe Dispenza Robert Smith of Faster EFT   JOIN a VIRTUAL SACRED BODY CIRCLE this FALL. SIGN UP HERE Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#041 Free Yourself from Chronic Stress & Nervous System Dysfunction with Suzanne Gundersen

In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews Sarah Clark, a health and life coach who uses the tools of functional medicine and natural fertility solutions to reverse infertility and help couples create the family they desire.  She is the author of Fabulously Fertile – Supercharge your Fertility Naturally, Fabulously Fertile Cookbook and Fertility Preparation Program. She is super proud of her Signature Fertility Coaching Program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby! On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions we can eventually reverse infertility.  In this episode, you are going to hear Sarah share expertise and experience around: her own experience with infertility, chronic health issues and how she discovered functional health and life coaching after she had her kids why she works with couples and not only the women wanting to get pregnant the importance diet plays in getting pregnant how the gut and fertility are connected what labs she uses to solve the infertility puzzle why it is incredibly important for couples to get support going through this journey the importance of reducing environmental toxin exposure how stress of any kind will halt fertility how she guides her kids in making healthy choices for themselves the common health concerns causes by food intolerances Website - https://fabfertile.com/   Follow Sarah on Facebook    Resources mentioned: Secret Ingredients Documentary   Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **

#040 Fab Fertile: Infertility is a Symptom with Sarah Clark

 In this episode of IMperfectly Health, Faith interviews fellow Dietitian, Karen Diaz - a registered dietitian certified in intuitive eating who helps women overcome eating and body image struggles. She earned her bachelor of science in dietetics from James Madison University and completed her dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Cornell Campus. After graduating, Karen gained experience in pediatrics, food allergies, and weight management both at UMDNJ University Hospital and the research department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She also worked at the Renfrew Center. Currently she assists women through her signature program, Break Free, which you can learn more about at TheFreeLife.com  In this episode, you are going to hear Karen share expertise and experience around: her own experience growing up around addiction and food/body challenges how most women to some degree struggle with food and their body all she learned about the roots of food/body challenges by running an eating disorder clinic how personal boundaries and being assertive are connected to emotional eating How women are starving to be seen and heard the themes of control, envy and not good enough are operating under the food/body struggle how she guides women to become intuitive eaters with confidence and ease how self trust and being your own authority in life is KEY to end the food obsession why your mind needs rest just like your body her insights on diet culture and the body positivity movement how you can harness your "inner rebel" in a positive way towards something other than food how young girls learn to struggle with food and their body by watching the women in their lives struggle as well how she teaches her kids to have a healthy relationship with food. the power of creating a family manifesto Karen's Website - http://thefreelife.com/ Karen's Podcast - http://thefreelife.com/podcast/ Karen's Book - Within, http://thefreelife.com/shop/   Follow Karen on Facebook    Resources mentioned: HAES - healthy at every size - https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=19   Intuitive Eating Book - Intuitive Eating Connect with Faith at www.faithshevlin.com Join the IMperfectly Healthy Community FB Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/IMperfectlyhealthycommunity/ Get my 5 Ways to Overcome Your Food Cravings FREE. ** Leave a Review of the Show!! Thank you! **  

#039 Drop the Rules and Live the Free Life with Karen Diaz, RD

IMperfectly Healthy: where the psychology, science and spirituality of health and wholeness meet. Guests on this show share their own stories, solutions and wisdom related to all levels of health: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. There are many doorways to transformation. From body image, emotional eating, the mind-body connection and chronic illness, to relationships, fulfillment and living your purpose, IMperfectly Healthy helps you fully embrace who you are, trust the journey of life, and hold your humanness in the arms of love. We are all here enrolled in earth school, each with a unique major(s), and ultimately the same core curriculum: coming home to our divine worth and wholeness. We humans often get tripped up by striving for perfection. We want the perfect body, perfect relationships, the perfect job, and the perfect home. Perfection is an illusion. Constantly working harder to make yourself, your body, and your life "perfect", robs you of the fullness of the human experience. If you are currently living in the world of trying to fix and change yourself, feeling like something is wrong with you…then get ready for a real transformation. The path of love, honor and wholeness awaits ….

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