Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

Today, I want to talk to you about your second brain. Yes, did you realize you actually have two brains and your gut is your second brain.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol usi...

Today, I want to talk to you about the power of natural health and understanding your symptoms are getting to the root cause.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and suppleme...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the emotions of others? 😞💭 As a child, Patricia O’Brien was an empath, absorbing everything around her—without the tools to release it. This led to deep depression until she discovered a powerful truth: the sadness wasn’t hers.

🎭 Her Journey to Healing:

💡 Realizing traditional talk therapy wasn’t the answer for her

🎓 Being guided into a Fine Arts Degree and transforming pain into creativity

🙌 Now helping others heal through 1:1 and group programs

🎧 Tune in to discover how art can be a healing force and a tool for self-awa...

Today, I'm going to talk about why men lose their hair, because there's one main reason why men start losing their hair versus women, it's not as cut and dry.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personali...

Today I want to talk about leaky gut. Leaky gut is unfortunately very common in today's world.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual –the la...

I am continue continuing to talk about what toxins are lurking inside your body and today's toxin of the top five that I lab test for and see showing up on a regular basis amongst my clients is cadmium.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactl...

What if your results aren’t about doing more… and instead about what you’re broadcasting energetically? ⚡️

In this solo episode, Melissa reveals why your frequency—your emotional tone, energetic signature, and unconscious beliefs—is the true foundation for aligned success.

✨ Key Takeaways:

·      What frequency really is (and how it drives your reality)

·      High vs. low-vibe emotions & how they show up in the body

·      A simple daily practice to reset your frequency

·      Real client shifts that happened with one energetic adjustment 

✨ Frequency isn’t just a vibe—it’s your energetic signature, shaped by y...

Today I'm talking about our sympathetic nervous system and our parasympathetic nervous system.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual –the lab tests are mailed directl...

This week I'm focusing on the power of natural health, lab testing, and getting to the root cause of an issue.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s bu...

Today we're talking about the color of your poop because that is really important as well

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual –the lab tests are...

🎙️ Cancer, Community & Ice Cream with Donna 🍦💖

What do rectal cancer, community support, and a milkshake have in common? Donna’s incredible healing journey! 🌟

Donna shares how the power of community lifted her spirits through cancer treatments, playing a huge role in her recovery. 🙌💛 And when she was finally well, she celebrated with a milkshake—only to discover she had developed lactose intolerance from the cancer treatments! 😱🥛💔

For someone who LOVES ice cream, this news hit almost as hard as her cancer diagnosis. But instead of staying in the blues, Donna took action! 🚀 She started experimenting with non-dairy...

Today I want to talk about my daughter's experience and I am forever grateful to her grade two teacher.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 10...

Today I'm talking about the parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and digest state.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual –the lab tests are mailed directl...

This week, I'm talking about gut health. And one of our biggest issues with our gut health, our most common I should say, are people being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome or irritable bowel disease, but I want you to know that these are actually not root causes, but they are symptoms of something else going on in your gut.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping di...

What happens when a chemistry student turns into a holistic healer? 🤯 Sandra’s journey started in university, where she studied chemistry while doing massages for fun—and that was just the beginning! 👀💆‍♀️

Now, Sandra masterfully blends science with energy healing, using acupressure, meridians, Reiki, sound healing, tuning forks, NLP, Time Line Therapy®, hypnotherapy, and Human Design to create a powerful, all-encompassing approach to healing. 🌟🎶

She shares how understanding the science behind these modalities helps her clients connect deeply to their symptoms—and why healing can’t just come from one side! 🧠💖

🎧 In this episode, we dive into:

🎵 How soun...

Today I'm talking again about boosting your immune system. Did you know that you actually have the power to strengthen your immune system or weaken it inadvertently?

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol usi...

Today I want to talk about your favorite way to move. We all need to be moving more in today's world. But the way you move your body can be different for everyone. You have the absolute right and ability to choose the ways you want to move your body by the ways that light you up!

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load...

Today I just want to talk about what drives your sugar cravings. Sometimes people think it's they have weak willpower. And it's not all about willpower. It's about the signals from the body when the body is out of balance.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exa...

What happens when stress, overwork, and exhaustion push your body to the breaking point? 😰 Gwen shares her powerful wake-up call—going from juggling 19 plates at once to collapsing from mysterious episodes doctors couldn’t explain.

🔥 In This Episode:

⚡ The reality of working too hard for too long and ignoring the warning signs 🚦❌

😴 Mysterious “episodes” that left Gwen unable to stay awake – even while driving! 😳🚗💤

🏥 Two back-to-back ER visits, yet no clear diagnosis – what was really going on? 🤷‍♀️

💃 How she completely transformed her life and is now thriving as a professional dancer at 65! 🎶💪

✨ The lessons sh...

Today, I'm talking about stimulating your vagus nerve. If your vagus nerve has a high vagal tone, it can easily help you drop out of your chronic stress state into your rest and digest state.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then...

Today, I want to talk about parasites and H pylori, and they sound horrible and scary and maybe things that you don't think about in our first world however, the reality is that 14% of North Americans have parasites and 30% have H Pylori.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance b...

Today I want to talk to you about that connection between the movie that is running in your mind and food.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside”...

🎙️ Healing Alcohol Dependency Through Breathwork w/ Hamza Najam 🌬️🧘‍♂️

In this powerful episode, Hamza Najam shares his raw journey from secret drinking in Pakistan 🇵🇰 to full-blown addiction in Canada 🇨🇦—and how he found lasting freedom through breathwork, meditation, and inner transformation.

✨ What you'll discover:

🔹 The breathwork technique that calms cravings in minutes

🔹 Why mindset shifts and nervous system regulation are essential to long-term sobriety

🔹 Hamza’s 3-phase program to build an alcohol-free life

🔹 Why change must come from within, not for anyone else

If you're navigating your own healing path—or supporting someone who i...

Today I'm talking to you about behavior, because all behavior comes from somewhere in your programming.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going...

Today I want to talk to you about your programming and how you're not lazy!

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on...

Did you know that behavior is simply a symptom? It is a symptom of your programming!

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going...

Have you ever caught yourself whispering, “I should be further ahead by now…”?

✨ In this episode, Melissa unpacks the hidden source of that heavy pressure to catch up—and why it’s rooted in outdated cultural timelines, not your soul’s truth. You’ll learn how the Unconscious Mind actually experiences time (hint: it has nothing to do with your calendar) and how to break free from that looping feeling of being “behind.”

💫 Expect powerful mindset shifts, a simple reframe ritual, and an invitation to recalibrate your internal timeline so you can move forward from trust—not fear.

🎧...

Today I want to talk to you about limiting beliefs.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a persona...

Emotions can be such a tricky subject. They can have you feeling stuck, especially when you feel responsible for everyone else's emotions. I want you to know that you can shift that programming by shifting your focus to prioritize yourself first.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by h...

Today, I want to talk about focusing on what you want!

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides...

Are you only focusing on your physical health while ignoring your mental and emotional well-being? 🧠💖 In this episode, I chat with Mae, a former nurse who knows firsthand the shortfalls of conventional medicine when it comes to true healing.

💥 Her Story:

🚨 Ignored the warning signs of stress until she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and Lupus

🩺 Saw firsthand how only treating the physical body isn’t enough

🔎 Became a firm believer in root-cause healing instead of bandaid solutions

💡 What You’ll Learn:

✔️ Why preventative action is key to long-term health 🛡️

✔️...

What if your anxiety isn't who you are, it's simply what you're tuned into? Your anxiety is triggered by a movie that is running in your head about an event that hasn't even happened yet. So What movie are you tuning into?

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance b...

Anxiety doesn't feel good, and anxiety holds you back from stepping into your best version of yourself, and what if I told you that I have a solution for you, a solution that will help you move forward.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “tox...

As I round out this series on stress by sharing with you that stress can also cause skin problems such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and leading to flare ups.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers funct...

Is play a reward… or a necessity? 🤔💭

Dinalynn returns to the show (catch her last episode #92! 🎧) to share a powerful realization—her lack of play contributed to her Lyme Disease. 😲💡 She used to believe play had to be earned through hard work, but now she knows that play is essential for well-being.

💃 Play isn’t just about games & movement—it’s a mindset. 🧠💫 Being curious, open, and exploring life with joy can reduce stress, boost health, and bring more ease into your daily routine. Plus, there’s no failure in play—only learning & growth! 🚀✨

🎧 Tune in to discover:

🎭 How play i...

Today, I want to share how it impacts our fertility.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a persona...

Today I want to talk to you about the fact that stress hormones can cause insulin resistance, increasing your risk of type two diabetes.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps...

Today, I want to talk about the fact that living in a place of chronic stress accelerates aging, and nobody wants that.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see ins...

 New Podcast Episode! - Mastering Conflict for a Healthier Life 💡✨

Did you know conflict triggers stress that can negatively impact your health? 😰 But what if conflict could actually be a tool for growth, innovation, and deeper connections? 🌱💬

In this episode, I sit down with Mardi Winder-Adams to explore how to navigate conflict in a healthy way—whether in relationships, parenting, the workplace, or daily life. 🏡👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💼

🔥 What You’ll Learn:

⚡ How conflict affects your health and stress levels 🧠💥

🔄 The surprising way conflict can spark change and creative solutions 🚀💡

🛠️ 5 powerful keys to conflict resolution you can apply anywhere! ✅

One of the things that stress does is it impacts your mood, and you can feel more irritable.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly w...