CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie ❣️ My name is Leslie Field, and I’m a Somatic Practitioner of Embodied Movement and I help people reconnect to their innate body wisdom through therapeutic movement practices.❣️ I am also the creator and host of the Sick and Seeking Podcast - Hi! I created a gentle body meditation and guided somatic movement practice to give you better insight into the work I do outside of podcasting. Why do I feel the desire to be a Somatic Practitioner? Well...We live in a culture that is depressed, anxious, and unwell. Most people are living from the neck upwards and are cutoff from their body sensation and emotional experience. There's a destructive shoving down of feelings leading to illness and a loss of knowing who we are and what we want. So how do we come back to ourselves and find wholeness? Somatic Embodied Movement. Embodied movement is about coming back to the body and becoming alive to the signals, messages and sensations as a compassionate and curious witness. This type of movement practice helps us map our sense of self both internally and externally. Feeling ourself grows our sense of self. Being open to the full array of sensory and emotional perception -- from awe, wonder, and pleasure, to pain, sadness and grief -- allows us to savor the full human experience in body, mind, and spirit.  So that we can come back to feeling our strength, aliveness, vitality and ultimately: wholeness.  I offer small, intimate classes in Pasadena, CA as well as work one-on-one on zoom. If you are curious and want to know more, let's chat! Email: Leslie@LeslieAField.com "I felt balanced and a zen-like calm after class.""Leslie has a gift for creating a safe, comfortable environment in to help heal the  nervous system through movement. I noticed an immediate difference in my general well-being and even my digestion following her class.""I was able to ground myself and attune to my body's needs, accessing emotions that can be difficult to open up to."🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Well, here we are! The final episode of Sick and Seeking Season 2!After you listen to this episode, I invite you to go BACK and listen to any episodes from season 1 or 2 that you may have missed. They are still wonderful episodes, even if they are from a year or two ago. AND, I’m going to ask a favor - can you rate and review the Sick and Seeking Podcast whenever you listen to your podcasts? It helps the podcast to be more easily discovered by people who it may support and serve on their healing journey. We’re doing something a bit different this week. If you’ve listened to this podcast, you know that I share about myself here and there, but I’ve never done an entire episode all about me. Well. Today is the day!Before we hop into the episode, context is important: I recorded this over a year ago, not really knowing where this content would land. And it feels a bit rambly in the end so forgive me there. And let me tell you there is a part of me that wanted the episode about me to be this to be super clean and well thought out story etc. but you know what? I don’t have time for that, and as an entrepreneur I’ve learned that ‘good enough’ has to be good enough sometimes.I will give you an in the moment health update as things have changed since this was recorded: I still have chronic kidney disease. I’m not in dialysis nor have I had a transplant, however, my kidney function numbers do look to be in decline. As you will hear, my function was steady for over a decade, but it appears this is not the case any longer. This has been causing a lot of fear and uncertainty in our house as we navigate this change and do our best to know what the next step forward.I’m physically feeling pretty darn good right now in body, mind and soul and I’m grateful for the days I feel good on all of these levels. The mental toll of thinking through what may lay ahead for my body and my family is difficult, but this is my life. There will be good days and bad days. I’m fortifying myself with more knowledge, a loving and supportive group of friends 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode I speak with Rebecca Tolin, Mind Body Coach and creator of the Be Your Own Medicine Program“...I found myself in this impersonal medical system that was only addressing the physical symptoms with things like supplements and medications. And what I really needed was to process that emotional trauma and know that that was the underlying cause of my symptoms so I could address it at the root.” - Rebecca Tolin Highlights:Rebecca’s traumatic experience while working abroad as a journalist, and her 13 year attempt to cure her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other health conditions through allopathic medicineDr. John Sarno, mind body healing, and somatics led to Rebecca’s eventual remission of her symptoms and health conditions The importance of self-compassion and unconditional love of self when managing a health conditionHow Mind-Body Coaching helps people find safety in their mind and bodyLearning to be with sensations in the body through mindful awareness and somatic tracking Paying attention to our belief systems & finding compassionate truth in our experience of illness and healthOften people hold something inside of themselves that wants to be honored or heard, and without its recognition it can manifest in a physical wayLearning to tune in and honor the deeper wisdom in the body, mind, heart, and soulThe concept of outcome independence and participating in practices with curiosity instead of revving the nervous system for a specific outcome “...These sensations in my body that I had called labels and names and diagnosis were looking for my attention, and when I gave them loving, even neutral attention, the underlying emotion could surface and almost always there was some sense of relief after that...I could feel it was medicine to me.”Connect with Rebecca:Website | Facebook | 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode I speak with Doctor of Physical Therapy, Gina Calderone at C Force Studio.“Because the longer a wound sits in the body, the more it just decays and it causes more problems.” - Gina CalderoneConversation Highlights:Gina’s 20+ year career as a physical therapist and how she came to be known as ‘The Body Detective” Noticing the connection of physical pain to people’s emotional pain, adverse childhood experiences and trauma Headaches as connection to intellectual overload and energy being pushed up into the upper parts of the body and head Paying attention to what is happening in our lives and listening to that inner voice when symptoms and signals from the body are sent to us Carolyn Myss’ work on energy medicine and archetypes and how it influenced Gina’s understanding of illness and pain in the bodyHow our life experience and choices can drain or enliven our physical energyThe unwinding of patterns and stories that Gina unearths until she discovers the core, root issue in people’s bodies which explains where the illness/pain/condition first came from Polyvagal theory and how trauma usually tracks along the back line of the physical bodyGina’s plan to develop and teach physio-energetic anatomy which shares how life experience deposits into the physical body and what symptoms are telling youQuote:“And our bodies usually give us clues. The symptoms are the clues. They're the map. They're giving us all the information that we need to know. We just have to learn how to tune in.” - Gina Calderone “So as a physical therapist, it helps to have certain kinds of modalities like that with craniosacral work, pranic healing, such as I mentioned, and being able to move the energy that way.  But the work that I learned in medical intuition and sacred contracts, and energy medicine is helping people understand why they're at where they're at and how they can make those shifts to feel free, improve their bodies, improve their lives.” 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Welcome to Episode 8, Season 2 of the Sick and Seeking Podcast On this episode I speak with somatic practitioner Emma Gordon, of Body As Compass. Conversation Highlights:Emma’s personal journey healing a traumatic pastThe body is always operating from a place of wisdom and what’s best for survival A starting place to befriend the body: self-compassion Getting the mind and body to work together instead of against one anotherHealing trauma from a place of safety, so finding safety in the outside environment before connecting to the body What is the nervous system, why it matters, and how it can become dysregulated How neuroaffective touch is an approach that can help people who have trauma patterns stuck in their body Human touch is essential to people’s overall wellbeing The negative feedback loops that occur with trauma Stepping into joy and pleasure to heal the body and build resilience Quote:"You know, you can't think your way through trauma, and you can't think your way into regulating your nervous system. And so I think there's a lot of shame for people around being traumatized, and trauma in and of itself creates shame, and then people have shame around having shame, and it becomes this terrible feedback loop for people. But it's not a conscious decision. We can't choose for our nervous system to be in a different place." - Emma GordonConnect with Emma:Website | Instagram 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Welcome to Episode 7, Season 2 of the Sick and Seeking PodcastOn this episode I speak with Kristina Evans, Functional Nutritionist Counselor at Annyssa Wellness. Connected to my health and overall wellness, looking at my diet was the last place I’ve ever wanted to go. And if you can believe it, for a few months now I have personally been working with Kristina to make changes around what I’m eating. I’m here to tell you that making these shifts to improve your gut health and overall health has been worth it. For me it was key to have the support and guidance of this wonderful woman, Kristina. She has a knack for meeting you where you are, without judgment, and holding you with delicate compassion and care on your journey with food. Conversation Highlights:What it’s like to work with a functional nutritionist counselor Kristina’s role in helping people break down the barriers so that they can eat well and heal their bodiesInflammation in the body and how the gut often plays a central roleGut health and its impact on health conditions A description of digestion, the role each part plays in the process, and what happens when a part breakdowns or is not functioning optimally Creating a healthy microbiome by eating the greatest variety of food that is high in soluble fiber and doesn't upset your systemThe gut to brain messaging system, and the importance of reconnecting the mind with the body Long term health conditions often take long term healing, and having a support along the way is key Kristina’s 80/20 rule in guiding clients how to think about foodQuote:“We don't talk about it. Why would I be excited about it? Because I have seen healing occur. If you can get the gut working correctly, then you will heal. You will be able to dare I say, go into remission from a lot of conditions. You will calm them down. The distance between flares will extend and the severity of flares will decrease. That's the beauty of working in the gut.” - Kristina🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Welcome to Episode 6, Season 2 of the Sick and Seeking Podcast On this episode I speak with Dr. LJ Johnson, Holistic Endometriosis and Hormone Expert. Her passion is to empower, motivate and educate women so they too can have quality of life despite their symptoms or diagnosis.Takeaways:LJ’s 16 year personal experience of chasing down her own endo diagnosis and being told by her doctors that there aren’t many options available to ease her symptoms.LJ’s realization that conventional medicine wasn’t providing what she and others needed, and retrained in functional medicine and holistic health Endometriosis is uterine-like tissue found outside of the uterus. The endo lesions inflame and the surrounding tissue can inflame as well Endometriosis has stage one, two, three and four and they do not equate to the level of pain, discomfort and inflammation you will have in your body.Symptoms of having endo is different for everyone, with many people having GI and digestion issuesEndo is often difficult to diagnose, and it can often be a process of exclusion to make the diagnosis Lj shares that the best way to confirm if it’s endo is to work with a endometriosis excision surgeon Ablation versus excision surgery to treat endo.Finding and doctor and surgeon you can trust; not just the first person that could get you inLifestyle changes that can support your body to feel better, such as learning your trigger foods that set off inflammation, bloating, loose stool etc. and logging this informationHow functional medicine can help you look for the root cause of the issue you’re having in your bodyQuote:“ I really and honestly turned my pain into my passion. It took me 16 years to be properly diagnosed with endometriosis, yes, 16. So that was 16 years of blaming myself, blaming my doctors, hating my body, hating my doctors, doctors being very dismissive of me, you know, begging, bleeding, literally bleeding out of every orific🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode I speak with movement teacher and mentor Amber Ryan, co-founder of The 360 Emergence, an embodiment, free-form, spirit-driven movement practice.“And numbing is also one of those vibrations that the movement practice can help assist moving people away from. Because numbing comes in for different reasons, whether it's we're stuffing something down, or I just can't even anymore. I've gone on overload. It's too much. Lots of different reasons for how numbing can come in… And so through the movement practice, we can start to warm that freeze, or we can start to draw and bring people back into the body.” - Amber RyanTakeaways:Energy can become stagnant in the body and movement can shift the energy into flow and vitalityUsing breathe as a way for people to come into better presence and awareness with themselvesHow Gabrielle Wroth’s 5 Rhythms ecstatic dance method helped Amber re-pattern into healthier ways in support of her body The powerful changes that can happen from a full, deep breath into the bodyThe shift that can happen when participating in embodied movement: feeling freer, awake, connected to life’s goodness, lighter, additional vitality, greater sense of aliveness, rejuvenated, tension and stress release, surrender and letting go How dance gives space for people to be in the raw, real expression of emotion and allows this energy to move Movement can provide a sense of support and community for those experiencing illness or chronic painTears and crying as a healing release that softens us Numbing in the body and how through a movement practice, the body can warm that freeze and draw people back into their bodyConnect with Amber: Website | Instagram | FacebookResources:🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode I speak with Holly Wodetzki of Sensual Embodied Dance about the richness of life that can arise in the body through dance. Using her signature dance methodology, Holly helps women come back to intense aliveness in their bodies. Topics Discussed:Holly’s decision to shift her personal daily practice from yoga to free-form danceNoticing the tightly held places in women’s body become more pronounced when you ask them to move towards pleasure and sexuality in using movementExploring the erotic and sexuality in the body, and what that means as a pulse of lifeUsing a practice like dance to dissolve boundaries and feel the unity and interconnection with life and natureSensitizing and becoming intimate with feelings in the body to allow life and emotions to move through you Using dance as an opportunities for women to let go, release, unfold and unravel tension in the body so they can be more open to embodying the full spectrum of lifeMany women feel disconnected from their lower body and have chronic pelvis tensionEmbodiment and dissociation, and pendulating in-between these states How music can invoke different emotional states and open their body to new ways of moving Quotes:“But when we have that capacity to let life move through us, then things don't get stuck. We don't get the residue of unexpressed experiences and emotions stuck in our body…” - Holly Wodetzki“But the question is always, will you dance with this too? And I think for people who are sick and or have loved ones that are sick or going through very difficult things, the question is still, can I dance with this too? Even when it is so painful, would I also dance with this too? but in the biggest sense of, this being part of my story that doesn't define who I am, but this is part of this moment. And can I dance even when it's so hard and I'm in pain?” - Holly WodetzkiConnect with Holly: 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode I speak with Functional Medical Health Coach Dawn Karwoski of the Well Rooted Life about managing various health issues and mystery illnesses before a full blown health crisis in 2017. Over the years Dawn sought out dozens of Doctors, Specialists, and Practitioners, and after much trial and error, she found true healing by connecting to her roots, reigniting her faith, and finding community. Dawn has reached a place where all of her chronic conditions are currently in remission Topics Discussed:The recurring health issues in her 20s and 30s that led her to floating in and out of the traditional medical system and seeing various functional medical doctors and collecting diagnosesHer health crash in 2017 from a rare condition called hashitoxicosiFoodie Dawn’s journey with food: elimination diets, healing protocols, and finding her way back to a healthy relationship and love of food. The learning curve in gaining confidence in the ability to be an expert of your bodyHow medical diagnoses come in twins and triplets, meaning, if you have one condition, there’s a high likelihood you will have multiple followOften it’s a culmination of a variety of factors that lead to a health crisis, and your body does something extreme for you to take notice The power of intuition and and advocating for yourself in a medical setting Dawn’s journey back to her faith and regulating her nervous system Quotes:"I started doing nervous system regulation…so that coupled with my functional medicine practice really got me to a healthy place so I was able to kind of bounce back from that major health crash and within a couple of years went off all my medication." - Dawn “And just because a doctor tells me to do something doesn't mean I have to, you know, really trying to reframe that like that's a recommendation. Like, I don't have to follow blindly, whatever they're telling me. - Dawn Connect with Dawn: 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Sick and Seeking Episode 2 of Season 2 features author and professor Ed Cohen who shares all about his new book: On Learning to Heal - What Medicine Doesn’t Know. At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility.In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are touched by illness.Topics Discussed:Ed’s Crohn's Disease diagnoses over 50 years ago at the age of 13 His self-proclaimed “adolescence on steroids” when he was treated with high doses of prednisone His life-changing healing trances that spontaneously occurred while severely sick and recovering in hospital Ed’s 40 year quest to understand why medicine knows a lot about being sick, but not a lot about getting better and healingHow healing is our birthright, and in our culture we don’t give healing the respect that it’s due How we are made into an ‘anybody’ for medical purposes when really each disease is particular and specific to each person The idea that medicine is a fee-for-service enterprise, and it sells itself to us as being the best treatment by using diagnosis and prognosisHow medicine was first considered an art of healing, and one way this was practiced was through Asclepion Temple Healin🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Welcome to Season 2 of the Sick and Seeking Podcast!For this season’s first episode I decided to bring back Naturopath Debra Lee who I interviewed on Episode 7 of Season 1 where she shared all about the toxins we may be exposed to in our daily lives. She was quite the fan favorite (meaning, tons of downloads!) so I had to have her back on to share more of her naturopathic wisdom. This time Debra and I spoke about the the Essential Elements and Nutrients We Need to Function Properly and Create a Healthy Self-Healing and Self-Regulating Environment in Our Bodies and those things are: clean water, good salts, minerals, probiotics, and clean produce.  We speak about:How 80% of your health is lifestyle - not genetics! There are essential elements and nutrients that we need for our body to function properly and for it to create a healthy self-healing and self-regulating environment and that is: clean water, good salts, minerals, probiotics, and clean produce. Water: how much to drink, when to drink it, what type we should be drinking and whySodium Fluoride vs Calcium Fluoride: what’s the difference and why it mattersThe importance of minerals in our diet and the fact that our bodies can manufacture some vitamins, but they cannot manufacture minerals so must get them from your diet or supplements.There are approximately 102 minerals that our bodies need and one of the ways we can get many of them is through Celtic Sea Salt Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Chloride, Iodine: their function in our bodies, and a description of what it might look or feel like if we have a deficiency: Prebiotic, probiotic, and postbiotics and their connection to a healthy gutWhy you should be buying from your local farmer or farmer’s market, and not just because of the environmental footprint Connect with Debra:  Website Resources🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie Hello Sick and Seeing Listeners!I know it’s been  few weeks…I ’ve been humming and hawing over how to close out my first season, and if you don’t know this about me, let me tell you that I’m the queen of over complicating things, hence the delay! I wanted to do this big, storytelling moment where I told you my chronic illness story and what it’s like living in my body. But honestly, it all felt a bit too much. Behind the scenes I’ve been working on completing a couple of certifications (more on that later) so that I can gather women in connection and movement. I’ve decided to keep this episode simple and first do a bit of a reflection on season 1 before I chat about what’s coming next for me and the Sick and Seeking Podcast.Now, one of my mentor’s Sheri Rosenthal often says that heart-based entrepreneurs have a hard time asking their community for things, and I totally identify with this.So as I close Season 1, I do have a few asks:1. Head to my website and sign-up to my newsletter to be alerted when I release a new podcast episode or open Wild Women’s Way Circles, Unstructured Movement Classes, and Transformational Wellness Retreats 2. Rate and review the Sick and Seeking Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a huge help and helps my podcast get discovered by more listeners. 3. Follow and like Sick and Seeking Social Media Accounts➡️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sickandseeking/➡️ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sickandseeking/➡️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sickandseeking➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sick-and-seeking/ 4. Share my podcast with friends or people in your network who may enjoy listening. 5. And join the Sick and Seeking Community group on Facebook so that I can keep 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie This is my second conversation with somatic therapist, embodiment guide, intuitive body reader, soul coach, and meditation facilitator, Erin Pace.  If you haven’t already listened to episode 12 titled, “The Body is a Realm of Wild Discovery”, I recommend you go back after this episode and take a listen.Embodied, sensual movement is a deep passion of mine as I know first-hand, in my body, mind and soul, how supportive and healing it can be. I’m thrilled to have had these conversations with Erin in order to spread awareness about the positive impact this type of movement can provide, especially for women who are lacking trust and connection to their bodies. We speak about:Honoring the depth of emotion women hold in their bodies, and  embracing the experience of emotion in the body Feeling emotions requires a commitment to connection to yourself and embracing what is happening within youEmotion is held in the body until we escort it away How we desensitize as a way of survival and how our sensitivity in our bodies is a genius Honoring, forgiving and allowing our bodies when they ask for restHow inviting ease can make space for more energy in the bodyBeing with the intelligence of the body and what may show up when you check-in and visit The remembrance of connecting with the divine and the sacredness of all  When women awaken to aliveness and wholeness in their bodies, there may be another quest inside of them to connect that to their eroticism Women’s inability to receive Using Erin’s A.L.I.V.E acronym as a daily touchstone or affirmation practice, starting with the phrases “I am” or “Am I?” – Aware, Listening, Intentional (or Inspired), Valid, Evolving Quotes:“Emotion can feel like a scary foe, and I invite that is should be a sacred informer” - Erin PaceConnect with Erin: Website | 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode of the Sick and Seeking Podcast, I speak with somatic therapist, embodiment guide, intuitive body reader, soul coach, and meditation facilitator, Erin Pace. In this conversation Erin reminds us that wholeness, as well as trust in and with the body is possible in consciously chosen spaces that can provide support and safety. We had much to discuss and many avenues to explore, so this is one of two conversations with Erin that will be shared on this podcast. We speak about:How entering the body is a realm of wild discovery Taking the time to become present with sensation and emotion leads to an experience of aliveness Living with chronic illness can lead to body distrust and disconnection  A simple conscious breath can serve the body Erin’s method for working with people who have for a long time disconnected from their body Exploring the re-attunement to the feminine essence as much as the masculine in one’s bodyBecoming the observer versus the judge How high functioning feminine bodies can become unsteadyHow grand or big feelings can activate fear, and learning how to befriend our feelings without judgmentVisiting with your body through organic moment and sitting with curiosity on what is present How to come to know your bodyConnect with Erin: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Linkedin🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode of the Sick and Seeking Podcast, I invited shamanic practitioner Amy Dempster to speak with me about how nature can be a supportive and healing force. We speak about:How Amy’s The Earth Keepers Podcast was a support for me when I was going through a tough timeHow Amy grew up on a farm but slowly lost her connection to the land after collegeAmy’s ‘remembering’ her psychic and intuitive abilities How nature communicates with us telepathically, and we all have the ability to communicate and receive information beyond the 5 senses Frequency and vibration - what it is and how it can impact youTools you can bring into your environment to raise the vibration Why we enjoy being outside in nature Positive and negative ions in our environment Building trust with your intuition and inner knowing Why you should leave your phone behind and take a long, leisurely stroll around the blockThe ancient wisdom of plants The electromagnetic frequencies that are surrounding us like never before, and how this is impacting us and our environment We all have ancestors that were intimately connected to the land, but many of us have forgotten or lost this connection through generations and the passing of timeWe are all a part of nature Humans, psychoactive plants, and fungi have worked together for thousands of years Connect with Amy:Website: https://followinghawks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followinghawks/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/followinghawksYoutube: https://followinghawks.com/youtube/Podcast: https://followinghawks.com/podc🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode of the Sick and Seeking Podcast, I speak with dear friend Nicole Moyer about what it’s like living with a variety of health issues including: Cystic Fibrosis; Type 1 Diabetes; Hashimotos Disease; Cervical Cancer; Chronic Kidney Stones and Kidney FailureEven with these many health conditions, Nikki approaches life with humor, positivity and prayer. She shines a brilliant light into the world with her huge heart, and I’m blessed to call her my friend.We speak about:The different health challenges Nikki managesThe question of: how much do we honor what our body is telling us and stay in bed, versus override the messages and force ourselves to get on with our dayHow we say we are "fine" when in reality we may not be feeling greatInvisible illness and how people would never know about Nikki’s health conditionsWhat is cystic fibrosis and how it impacts the bodyThe miracle drug Tricalfta, released in 2019, which significantly helped improve Nikki’s lung functionThe life expectancy of people diagnosed with cystic fibrosisFear and trauma connected to the hospitals How prayer and Jesus can be a powerful and supportive force in our darkest momentsThe Bible’s Psalm 91 and how Nikki believes that saying this prayer helped her avoid dialysisNikki’s life as a foster parent 🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode of the Sick and Seeking Podcast I speak with coach and advocate Alyssa Truelove about what it’s like living with two chronic conditions: endometriosis and fibromyalgia.We speak about:Alyssa’s diagnosis story and the shocking news she received at 19 years old that she has endometriosis.The importance of understanding that what you are feeling in your body is valid, even if your illness is invisible and others can’t see itConnect with Alyssa Truelove (Founder & CEO of the Chronically Ill Society): Email: support@chronicallyillsociety.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chronicallyillsociety/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chronicallyillsocietyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Chronically-Ill-Society/100090535946726/Website: https://chronicallyillsociety.com/🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie On this episode of the Sick and Seeking Podcast, Abby shares the story of Cecil, the Grapefruit-sized Dermoid Cyst that was attached to her right ovary. Abby takes us through her harrowing story of how she came to the excruciating realization that she had such a large mass growing inside of her body.  We speak about:Investigating the horrible, stabbing-like pain that abruptly came upon Abby and her need to seek immediate medical attentionDermoid cysts: what they are and why they can be pretty weirdIdentifying an ovarian torsion, and the risks to your organs if this happensPotentially losing part or all of Abby’s reproductive organs when going in for surgery to remove the cystUsing humor to get through tough moments Sharing our experience of a having an extremely long list of doctors and medications Exploring the potential for alternative and complementary therapies that can sit alongside of or in place of prescription medications Discussing how medical insurance is confusing, and how to maximize the use of this benefit Intuitively knowing when medication needs to be adjustedUnderstanding and validating the need for restDepression and anxiety, and how these and other mental health struggles can make it difficult to functionLabral tear surgery Small simple goals to have in mind and that will keep you motivated after a tough body moment **Update on Leslie’s IUD + menstruation comments in this episode** Leslie was spotting and having a mini-period over the course of a few months (even with an IUD)  most likely because the IUD had shifted and was out of place! More on that experience will be shared on the Sick and Seeking Youtube page in due course. Timestamps: 4:00: Abby introduces Cecil the dermoid cyst 9:22: Ovarian torsion 14:10: The potential surgical outcomes for removing the cyst18:30: The moment we🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer

CLICK HERE TO CONNECT! I'D LOVE TO KNOW -- What keeps you listening? Ideas for future episodes? Something that landed on your heart or mind you needed to hear? Looking forward to connecting with you! --Leslie In this episode I speak to Debra Lee, founder of Middle Tennessee’s Wellness Bridge Consulting. Debra is a Traditional Naturopath, Certified Natural Health Practitioner, a Hanna Kroeger Practitioner, Lifestyle Coach and a NuVision Biofeedback Specialist. A teacher at heart, Debra thrives on educating and coaching people to make better choices for themselves. In this episode she highlights some of the over 500 chemicals we are exposed to daily, where they are found, and what symptoms may occur after exposure. This is just the first introduction to Debra and her knowledge, and there is much more ground to cover. More conversations with Debra will be coming soon on the Sick and Seeking Youtube Page. We speak about:Why people seek out the support of a naturopath like DebraOne of the causes for chronic illness relapse in our bodies is due to the environmental toxins lurking in the over 500 chemicals we are exposed to dailyCommercial scents and air fresheners are not regulated and there can be unlisted ingredients in these products Selecting high-quality essential oils that are labeled therapeutic-grade The different organs in our bodies and what they do to help the body rid of toxic substancesEnvironmental chemicals and toxins and how they may negatively affect you body Awareness and avoidance of formaldehyde, aluminum, sodium fluoride, parabens, sulfates, nitrites, nitrates, MSG and aspartame in products or foods that go on, in, or near your bodyThe important difference between calcium fluoride versus sodium fluoride, and why this distinction is important.How to limit one’s exposure to dioxin, also known as glyphosateChewing gums and mints are now sweetened with aspartame instead of sugar and why this is potentially an issue Debra’s suggestion to avoid harsh detoxes for the body and start with dandelion, parsley or cilantro teasTimestamps:1:30: What is a naturopath?9:50: Common symptoms of toxic exposure 18:00: Che🌟 Connect with Leslie and Sick and Seeking Community: 🌟Website | YouTube | Facebook | InstagramJoin an Embodied Movement Class or Wild Women's Circle!🔥 CLICK HERE for details 🔥 In-Person: Tuesday, 8:30am PT in South Pasadena, CA Wednesdays, 6:00pm PT in San Marino, CA Virtual/ ZOOM Thursdays, : 12-1pm PT on Zoom 🌟 FREE support group: Chronic Conditions - Coffee & Connection🌟--> For people who are managing a long term health issue-->We meet on ZOOM once a month at 12pm PTLike The Show? Show Your Support With a Donation! Sick and Seeking Disclaimer