Body Wise Podcast

Cristina talks with Michael Tennant, founder and CEO of Curiosity Lab, creator of the Actually Curious card game, and community centered marketing organizer and creative. Together, they talk about the importance of empathy, how empathy fosters community and growth, and how to dismantle biases and confront the ego for better connection.

TOPICS:

• Meet Michael Tennant (00:44)
• Making a change within an industry at odds with empathy (05:37)
• Making the empathy pledge a practice (11:15)
• Disrupting the ego, bias, and taboo topics with empathy (14:20)
• Daring to imagine a greater world (23:20)
• Actually Curious: the game (27:13)
• More from Michael and Actually Curious (36:40)

RESOURCES:

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Get more from Michael Tennant at ActuallyCurious.com and follow him at @actuallyc_rious on Instagram
• Make the pledge to spread empathy at We Claim One Percent and get your Actually Curious game decks
• Try the Actually Curious Values Exercise

Cristina and Laura get to talk with Heather Coonan about her experience with vulvar cancer. From the diagnosis to treatment, plus the healing process and everything that comes after, Heather shares her story, beyond cancer. Heather’s grace and raw honesty empowers us all to pursue a different path in our individual healing journeys, and in our relationships with our bodies and pleasure as women.

TOPICS:

• Life with lichen sclerosus and the beginning of Heather’s health journey (03:55)
• How Heather self diagnosed correctly (5:22)
• Heather’s official diagnosis and the c-word (06:53)
• Medical trauma, power imbalance, and the struggle of body autonomy from a female perspective (14:01)
• Taking the power back as a patient (19:40)
• Self-advocacy and body autonomy within a cancer treatment plan (21:14)
• Combining conventional healing methods with naturopathic modalities, becoming cancer-free (23:25)
• Making real lifestyle changes for long term health (28:26)
• Life after cancer and supporting survivors (38:36)
• Enjoying sex after a physical trauma (40:47)
• Questioning the normalization of women’s pain (44:55)
• Vulvar cancer, women’s pleasure, and reimagining the conversations we have as a society (53:31)
• Getting clear on your personal values in a health crisis (1:00:48)

PARTNERS:

• Get 25% off Kettle and Fire ready made, shelf stable bone broth with code CASTAWAY

RESOURCES:

• Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Find more from Heather Cooan and check out her story of self-healing on her website, HeatherCooan.com
• Follow Heather on Instagram

GET BODY WISE:

• Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
• Join Cristina’s online community and become part of Mi Casa Cooking Club
• Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com
• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]

Welcome to the Body Wise podcast with your hosts: Laura Mar, Sexual Health Educator, and Cristina Curp, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. We figured we’d start with introductions and a bit of our individual backgrounds and experiences in women’s health so you can better understand what brought us to this moment and the conversations we hope to have in future episodes of the show.

TOPICS:

• Meet Cristina (00:18)
• Meet Laura (04:23)
• Getting back to ancestral wisdom (16:27)
• Where does body disconnect come from? (24:25)
• Health through the lens of social media (26:11)
• Body autonomy and acceptance in Latin culture (29:05)
• High school, the patriarchy, and cervical fluid (30:52)
• Addressing healing, the food connection (37:00)
• Building the Body Wise community (39:23)

RESOURCES:

• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!

GET BODY WISE:

• Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
• Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]

Strong personal boundaries serve as a blueprint for how we treat ourselves, and can teach others how we want to be treated in our relationships, whether they're romantic, platonic, or familial. Healthy boundaries go beyond relationships and impact our lifestyle, finances, and more. In this episode with Kyndra Holley, we’re talking about what boundaries look like, how to maintain them, how gentle honesty can empower others, and more.

TOPICS:

• Introducing Kyndra and boundaries within our friendship, chatting about Peace, Love, and Low Carb (02:35)
• Creating boundaries on social media, navigating internet trolls (10:45)
• Managing expectations on social media (16:31)
• Setting boundaries in every day life (21:44)
• Building a digital community while minding boundaries (24:57)
• The importance of sharing your real self and owning your story (29:15)
• How to be okay with not making everyone happy (47:25)

PARTNERS:

• Get 15% off Jasper Organics CBD products with code KITCHEN

RESOURCES:

• Rate the podcast and leave a review on iTunes to be entered to win a $50 Whole Foods gift card and a signed copy of Made Whole Made Simple! We’ll announce the winner in a future episode, so keep listening to find out if it’s you!
• Pre-order your copy of Made Whole Made Simple, my second paperback, coming March 10, 2020!
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• Find more from Kyndra Holley at peaceloveandlowcarb.com and kyndraholley.com, plus follow her on social media @peaceloveandlowcarb and @kyndraholley
• Check out all of Kyndra Holley’s books
• For further reading on boundaries:
• • Brené Brown
  • The Holistic Psychologist

GET BODY WISE:

• Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
• Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]

STRESS! We all have it ... and we’re not always good at managing it. This episode, we’re talking about signs of stress and how to manage stress: foods to eat to support your body, vitamins, minerals, and supplements for stress support, how stress impacts hormones, connecting to your body and your senses to come back to yourself, preventative measures for high stress moments, and more.

TOPICS:

• Letting yourself let go of the hustle (5:00)
• Eating to nourish your body and manage stress (7:26)
• Non-food ways of nourishing ourselves and recharging (14:11)
• Symptoms and signs of stress (18:43)
• Making the choice to take care of yourself and why it's so important (21:49)
• How stress impacts hormones (34:41)
• Supplements for stress (40:28)
• The power of surrendering to yourself (44:53)

PARTNERS:

• Get 15% off Medlie Drinkable Veggies with code CASTAWAY
• Get 15% off Jasper Organics CBD products with code KITCHEN

RESOURCES:

• Pre-order your copy of Made Whole Made Simple, my second paperback, coming March 10, 2020!
• Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
• For further reading:
  • Wild Geese, a poem by Mary Oliver
  • In the FLO by Alissa Vitti
  • Aviva Romm Adaptogen Herbs: Ancient Medicine for 21st Century Stress
  • Prayers of Honoring by Pixie Lighthorse
• Naturally Nourished Adaptogen Boost

GET BODY WISE:

• Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
• Find more from Laura Mar at cyclescience.org, and on social media @laura_mar.cyclescience
• Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]