Podcast 213: Interview with Dr. Kierstin DeWitt

12/21/21 • 25 min

Dr. DeWittt is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist with a focus on Mindbody Medicine. Dr. Kierstin uses her 3 step Holistic process to help people feel more connected to their mind and body, allowing them to move from stressed and overwhelmed to self-aware, empowered, and resilient. Overwhelm, creating sustainable health. You can learn more about Dr. DeWitt and reach her through her Instagram.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

overwhelm, people, reframe, impacts, Alzheimer, lives, pandemic, summit, brain dump, featured speakers, mind-body medicine, ways, cultivate, reconnect, work, manage, important, website, support, health

00:06

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast as part of my health summit series which is going to be coming up January 14 to the 16th 2022. I am bringing on the speakers and doing some interviews and today we have one of our featured speakers for the summit, Dr. Kierstin DeWitt, she is a licensed naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist with a focus on mind body medicine. She uses her three step holistic process to help people feel more correct connected, and the mind body, I love the mind body as well. And she is going to be speaking about overwhelm and creating a sustainable health paradigm. So Dr. Kierstin Welcome to the show. I want to thank you for joining us today and how did you get into this? This area in naturopathic medicine around overwhelm? Give us a little background on that.

01:13

Yeah, well, thanks so much for having me on. I always loved chatting with you, we always have such great conversations. So I appreciate it. And I’m so excited for you know, your upcoming event. So how I got involved? Well, first with naturopathic medicine, with it being a holistic system, right. And same with traditional Chinese medicine, they’re both holistic systems, it was during school that I really saw how overwhelming stress has a direct impact on our physical well being. And that was really, really pointing out this mind body connection to me. So after school, I dove into, you know, other training and, and just learning more practices for how we can kind of reconnect the mind and the body together because of this direct link. Right. And we’re seeing so much more research coming out of how how directly connected the mind to the body is whether that’s through our immune system through our gut health, our cardiovascular health, so many different ways. And you mentioned the three part, you know, the the three part process that I walk people through, and to me, this is kind of how I view the whole person, right. So I always look at the what I call the inner self. So this is like the core of who we are, and moving out to our embodied self. And so this is more like that physical layer, and then out to what I call the interactive stuff. And this is more of how the environment impacts us and how we impact the environment and the world around us how we show up in the world, and how that impacts our our health and well being. And so we can see even with overwhelm how that really impacts these three different layers as well. And I’ve just been, you know, through my own experience with overwhelm, I’m sure you can recall just just going through school itself, right, that is such a, it can be a very stressful environment. And it’s a lot of work balance, you know, trying to maintain balance through school and through work, and then add on top of that pandemic, right, I think so many of us can really relate to this feeling of stress and overwhelm. So just seeing the way that it really can manifest and impact at so many different layers. To me, it’s just a really important topic to talk about until learn how to manage and cope with.

04:14

Well, you know, when you were coming on the show, people started to email me questions. So I’d like to go to a question. This is a listener who lives in upstate New York, and her mother, who is suffering, Alzheimer’s is going to be moving in with her in the family and she’s worried about Of course, not only her mom, but the holidays and then with the pandemic. And so she’s an overwhelmed, she said, Help Help. And so I said, Well, I’ll be talking to Dr. Kiersten today. What would be some things that you would offer her to maybe help her manage her overwhelm, knowing that she’s dealing with her mom and the holidays and family and so on?

04:57

Yeah, well, first, you know, my crib because my grandma had Alzheimer’s and so this is one of the one of the reasons there’s many people in my immediate family who have experienced ma...

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Yeah, well, first, you know, my crib because my grandma had Alzheimer’s and so this is one of the one of the reasons there’s many people in my immediate family who have experienced ma...

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Podcast 212: Interview with Emma Destrubé

Today we have a special guest, Emma Destrubé. She is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and physician of East Asian medicine, as well as a somatic movement therapist and Continuum teacher.

Beginning in her teens, she apprenticed under somatic movement pioneer Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. Together they researched and developed fluid movement/sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications of somatic movement and breathwork practice.

Emma holds a private holistic health care/healing arts practice in Los Angeles, where she helps to cultivate vitality with patient-empowering, poetic medicine including acupuncture, herbalism, somatics, and energy work. Her patients are a broad mix of creatives, celebrities, athletes, artists, activists, meditators, and even children.

She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma – a Continuum-based subtle movement, breath, and embodied meditation practice that sources somatic inquiry in the wisdom and poetry of Taoist medicine.
Learn more about Emm through her website: https://www.emmadestrube.com/about or her social channels: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn

Hear more from Emma at my upcoming Whole Health Summit! She is one of our amazing speakers! Save your seat: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

bodies, solstice, movement, inwards, sensations, emma, intelligence, mysterious, practice, world, featured speakers, life, question, classes, winter, continuum, move, innate intelligence, moment, summit

00:05

Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast as part of our summit special. Yes, we’re having the summit. Oh, health summit January 14 to the 16th 2022 and one of the featured speakers is a guest today. Her name is Emma Destrubé, and she is a colleague and friend of mine, wonderful person. And she just a little background about her. She’s an acupuncturist, herbalist and a physician of East Asian medicine. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma, a continuum based subtle movement, breath, movement and embodied meditation practice. She studied under Emily Conrad, our, our distinguished colleague, founder of continuum. And together, this is interesting, she and Emily actually researched and developed fluid movements, sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications. And I know when I used to go to the studio, I used to see Emma there. And it was it was great to be with her and Emily. So, Emma, it’s great to have you on the program today. How’s it going? How are you doing?

02:07

Great. I’m so well, thank you for having me. It’s great to be here.

02:13

So we’re coming into the solstice season. And I know we both feel there’s a certain harmony harmonization. And we with our communities, we bring them together this Solstice time. What does Solstice mean to you? And how do you express it? How do you you know, integrate it in your practice in you know, in your personal life? Yeah, so

02:38

the solstice is a seasonal node here in the middle of the winter, the shortest day of the year. And when we look at the world around us nature changes according to the seasons, we see this so clearly. And when we look at our bodies, our internal worlds are a microcosm of the universe. So as the seasonal turning happens externally, a seasonal shift is also happening within our bodies. So as an acupuncturist, one of our primary diagnostic tools is reading the radial pulse of the wrist. And we see that a normal pulse or a healthy pulse changes according to the seasons. So we’re not separate from our environments. And one of the most primary tenets of Chinese medicine is that when we can harmonize our way of living and our bodies with the external world that is health. So when we’re living out in concert with the natural world, that’s when this harmonies that lead to disease tend to arise. So for me, the solstice is this incredibly important time to allow ourselves to come in we see that in nature, everything is coming inwards, there’s this entropic contracting movement that started in the fall, the trees, dropping their leaves, drawing their nutrients down into their trunks and into their roots for storage through the winter. We see animals scurrying around and collecting their their fruits and berries to last them through the winter. And it’s just this this moment of comi...

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Podcast 214: Interview with Gabrielle Buresch-Teichmann

Today, I had the honor to interview Gabrielle Buresch-Teichmann, a pioneering Holistic Color Consultant and Color/Light Therapist, internationally known speaker, and facilitator for over 30 years. She has authored a book: In the Beginning There was the Color Red and founded the Color Lights World Project. You can contact her through her Website or LinkedIn.

She will be one of my featured speakers at my upcoming virtual Whole Health Summit. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

color, light, Gabrielle, therapy, people, sessions, years, pioneer, working, zoom, medicine, winter, energy, proven, treat, Austria, holistic, gave, test, summit

00:04

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to an eye clarity podcast. As part of December in January, we are inviting the holistic, holistic health summit participants, the speakers, and today I’m going to do an interview with a really amazing person I have the deepest respect for her name is Gabrielle boorish. Teichman. And wow, she has a resume. That’s really long. So I’ll, I’ll keep it fairly short. She is a pioneer in holistic color and consulting. She’s a color and light therapist who lives in Austria, internationally known for over 30 years. She’s a facilitator and teacher, she also does private sessions. She’s founder of something called the color lights World Project, which I’m gonna have her speak about. She’s also an author of titled The book is titled In the beginning, there was read I love that. So you should check that out. It’s on Amazon. And we’re gonna have a really lively conversation today on light and color from Gabrielle’s perspective. So, Gabrielle, I want to welcome you to the program. I feel so honored that you’re here. How are things going? How are you?

01:34

Thanks a lot, Sam, for having me. I’m very much looking forward to the summit. And I feel very happy and honored to be part of this and to have the opportunity to contribute.

01:48

Okay, well, we have a lot to ask you. But before we get to that, I’ve been following you on your website, and LinkedIn and Facebook. And can you tell us a little bit about your color lights project, I’ve been observing and being part of the kind of the listenership share what this project is what it’s all about how people can access it.

02:19

Yeah, so one year ago, in fall, exactly for one year ago, I founded the color lights World project. So together with a group of 10, International color light experts, based in the US in South Africa, in Europe, and in Japan, we are offering zoom in ours and zoom events, and also color weeks, with the aim of spreading the knowledge, the beautiful energy, the healing and the inspiration of color in light, especially in these challenging times that we are having now, since more than one and a half years. So this in the last winter and fall season, I ran 12 Zoom webinars with these international experts, who are specialists in different areas of working with color and light and have different approaches. So we did 12 Zoom webinars. And it was really quite amazing what we were able to spread and share, because we did color tests on Zoom. And we even did a color light therapy session on Zoom. So very interesting. And then this year, and actually last December, we started the project, the first thing we did is we did two events called color lights gifts to the world. We’re at each event five of us gave a colorful present over zoom to our audience. So for both of these events, we had 100 People from five continents. So that was actually the start of the project. What we also did is we ran two color weeks, one in March and one in October, where we announced that every day of the week would be dedicated to one color. And we invite all the people on social media actually in our own color group on Facebook color called color lights World project, but also on Instagram and linked in to share the colors in their lives. And it was amazing because in both weeks, the whole social media was flooded with colors. And it was a surprising experience even for all of us who were kind of the contributors or who wer...