From Unwell to Unstoppable: A Journey to Better Health with Functional Medicine

12/19/23 • 37 min

For today’s episode, I had a chat with LaVonna Willingham from Paducah, KY.
In the fall of 2022, LaVonna started feeling unwell. She knew her health was declining, but the standard bloodwork and her doctors said everything was fine. Knowing that everything was NOT fine, she decided she needed to get to the root of why she wasn’t feeling well.
To do that, LaVonna found a doctor who practices functional medicine. Functional medicine recognizes that the different systems in the body (circulatory, respiratory, digestive, etc.) are all one connected system. It's an approach to medicine that treats the whole person and looks for the root causes of a patient's symptoms.
A few months after starting a functional medicine program with Dr. Kay Corpus, LaVonna was not only feeling better and able to take less of her thyroid medication but also launching a new virtual assistant and coaching business.
LaVonna’s story shows her grit and love of life, and I find her inspiring. I hope you enjoy hearing her story as much as I did.
You can find more about LaVonna at llbusinessservices.com.
Links to books and resources mentioned in today's episode:
Dr. Kay Corpus
Blue Zones
"The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
"You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay
"The Empath's Survival Guide" by Judith Orloff, MD
"The Business Boutique" by Christy Wright
"Atomic Habits" by James Clear
The Cathy Heller Podcast

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Building a Healthy Home Life with Kathryn Garland

For today’s episode, I chatted with Kathryn Garland, host of a new podcast called Homespun: Create the Life You Crave. Homespun explores how to build a healthy home life and how that benefits us in all aspects of our lives.
Kathryn says she is a wife and mom first, always. She is a home educator who views the connections within the home to be the most important foundations for safety and health in life in general.
She says she has always been curious about healthy living, and that has led her down many roads - some good, some bad. Currently, she feels that nervous system regulation, healthy nourishing foods, and connection with others are the most important pieces to healthy living.

In our conversation, we talk about how she and her husband uprooted their lives, moving from Ontario to British Columbia, to go from city living to full-on homesteading. We also talk about what it’s like to live a home-centered life, homeschooling her kids, the benefits of home cooking, and the traveling she did before coming home.
You can follow Kathryn on Instagram @homespun.kathryn or join her Homespun Facebook group to learn more about her podcast.
Kathryn also offers free tips for how to bring life home again.
For more information on the books Kathryn mentions in today's episode, here are a few links:
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

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Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation for Beginners

Because we’re in the midst of the winter holiday season, I thought I would pause our regular conversations and take a few minutes to cover a topic that befits a season associated with love, kindness, and giving. Today, I’m talking about metta meditation, or what’s commonly called loving-kindness meditation.
In this episode, I provide a brief overview of what loving-kindness meditation is and how it can benefit you and those around you. Plus, I offer a short metta meditation that you can also download from the website.
I wish you all a happy, healthy holiday season, and look forward to being with you again in the new year.

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