A Mind, Body, Spirit Approach To Healing Our Gut - Peter Kozlowski, MD

09/02/21 • 43 min

Ep#071 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
When it comes to finding a roadmap to true wellbeing, there is no better subject area to dive deep and gain insights into the interconnected landscape of nutrition, emotions and the mind than our gut health.
This episode is a down to earth conversation with Dr. Peter Kozlowski and his new critically acclaimed, award winning book, " Unfunc Your Gut - How To Boost Your Immune System, Heal Your Gut and Unlock Your Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health" .
Dr. Peter Kozlowski is a practicing functional medicine doctor who serves patients in person and online via his Montana and Chicago-based practices. He has trained with leaders in his field including Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Susan Blum.
Dr. Kozlowski is extremely passionate about the primary importance of mental, emotional and spiritual health when it comes to getting to the root cause of dis-ease. He is an excellent teacher and a gifted healer who "walks his talk", bringing a distinctive level of experiential wisdom from his own healing journey through addiction recovery.
Learn more: http://doc-koz.com
Get the Book: "Unfunc Your Gut"

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Why We Need More Self Acceptance and Less Self Improvement

Ep#070 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
As a holistic health coach, I’ve come to know that when it comes to creating the change we desire for ourselves, cultivating Self Acceptance is the fundamental piece . Without a high level of self acceptance we will lack what it truly takes to take constructive empowered action in our lives.
The problem with Self Improvement is that it makes our self acceptance conditional . We can’t feel like we are truly okay until ......... Our efforts to better ourselves no matter how correct and sensible can feel like being on a hamster wheel. Self Acceptance is here and NOW - no conditions, no standards. It doesn't mean we're ignoring the things we would like to change, we just aren't including them in our equation of inherent worth and acceptability.
Self Acceptance doesn't makes us lazy, idle or complacent. All the research points to the fact that Self Acceptance is what actually sets the stage for growth and real change.
In this special solo show, I share some key strategies for why and how we need to make this important shift when it comes to stepping into our full personal power to create the health and wellbeing we truly desire.
Recommended Resource: "Radical Acceptance - Embracing Your Life With The Heart of a Buddha " By Tara Brach

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Finding the Sacred In Food

Ep#072 Fed up with fad diets and fake wellness? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food and self care challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective. She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.
When it comes to the food we eat, I’ve shared a lot about the healing power of eating whole foods, plant centered, anti-inflammatory foods, gut health etc. but today I’d like to share a new lens to see this thing we all do everyday called eating. I invite you to explore with me this question: Can the food we eat be nourishing not just your body but equally on the soul level as well?
I believe understanding and conecting with the sanctity of the food we eat is huge missing piece in Western nutrition. By feeling into the sacred nature of food we can cultivate a deeply nourishing relationship with food and our bodies that can help cut through all the pseudo wellness gimmicks and diet culture. Finding the sacred in food is a key to personal iberation when it comes to the full healing potential of food.

In this solo epiosde, I share my top strategies for embodying this reality of food as sacred.