Heal Yourself Podcast
A podcast diving into all aspects of healing; from nurturing your relationship with yourself, to functional medicine insights, to transforming your money story, we're here to empower you with the knowledge and tools to create lasting change.
Episodes
Your ego is not just arrogance or being self-absorbed. The way we see it, ego is the identity you’ve constructed out of what you have, what you do, how you look, what you’ve survived, and what other people say about you. And while it can protect you and push you to grow, it can also keep you stuck in control, comparison, and constant self-evaluation. So Denise and I slow it down and get practical about w...
The most tempting form of avoidance is the kind that looks like self-improvement. When you’re stressed, symptomatic, or stuck in old patterns, it feels responsible to search for the next root cause: another lab, another supplement, another therapy modality, another round of shadow work, another nervous system practice. But what if all that “digging” is keeping you in limbo because it gives you answ...
Your body isn’t “breaking” in midlife. It’s asking for a new strategy. In today's episode, Kira is joined by Kelly Lupshaw for a grounded conversation on how women can stop chasing symptoms and start rebuilding the systems that drive real energy, calm, and longevity.
We dig into what “systems over symptoms” actually looks like in everyday life: why swapping a pharmaceutical...
Your attention is being trained every day, and it’s rarely training you toward peace. We’re talking about “living in the matrix” not as a movie concept, but as the real-life box of 3D distractions that hijack your nervous system: social media spirals, email stress, traffic rage, political outrage, and the endless feeling that something is always wrong. When we live there, we don’t just ...
The fastest way to turn healing into misery is to treat your life like a checklist you’re failing. We’re talking about the specific kind of guilt that shows up when you believe you’re not doing enough: not enough movement, not enough meditation, not enough supplements, not enough productivity, not enough “emotional maturity.” That belief doesn’t motivate most of us. It keeps the n...
If your “healing journey” has turned into tracking, fixing, optimizing, and endlessly researching, we want to offer a different lens: your body might be asking for trust, not micromanagement. In this episode we get real about the fine line between listening to your body and trying to control it. When every symptom becomes a crisis and every emotion becomes a project, healing stops feeling like support an...
Ever tried to calm down and somehow ended up more anxious? That moment is the doorway into nervous system work, not proof you’re doing it wrong. Kira speaks with somatic integration coach and certified breathwork facilitator Jonathan Schechter about why breathwork can feel incredible for some people and edgy for others, especially when your system has learned that staying on guard is what keeps you safe. ...
You can want peace with your whole heart and still keep choosing chaos. You can crave more time, more space, and better health, then automatically say yes to the very things that burn you out. We get honest about that disconnect and name it for what it is: fighting for what we don’t want, usually because some deeper part of us believes the pattern is protecting us.
We unpack why the subconscious mind cl...
Your emotions might be sabotaging your health, and not because you “feel too much,” but because you either ignore them or replay them until your body thinks the threat is happening again. We get real about the two common traps we see everywhere: emotional bypassing (stay busy, stay positive, don’t cry) and emotional drowning (rumination, rehearsing, collecting evidence, spiraling). Neither one help...
You can journal the dream, visualize the goal, and say the affirmations, then still wake up living the same day. It's not about that.
We walk through how identity shift actually works, using real examples from clinical training, career change, and health struggles. If you’re tired, discouraged, or stuck in an “all or nothing” cycle, we share a more realistic path: the 1% move. A two-minute w...
In this episode, Kira sits down with Rachel Feldman to explore why so many high-achieving women feel productive yet deeply unfulfilled—and what it actually takes to heal burnout at the nervous system level. Rachel shares her personal journey from early digestive issues to asthma and eventual burnout, driven by a lifelong need to prove her worth. Hitting a wall forced her to rethink everything she believed abou...
In this throwback episode, we talk about the podcast The Telepathy Tapes. This was a top episode with listeners and of course, we are big fans of TTT. We talk about the podcast’s interviews with parents and experts, the moments that hit us emotionally, and why an open mind can be a powerful part of any healing journey.
We also zoom out to the real-life takeaways: the mind is not the same as the br...
Comparison can look harmless until it starts rewriting your self worth. We’re Denise, a speech language pathologist and self love coach, and Kira, a traditional naturopath and functional nutritionist, and we’re naming the pattern so many of us live in: comparisonitis. It shows up as a quick glance at someone else’s body, business, relationship, money, or healing story, then turns into a spiral of &...
If you’ve ever hit a hard season and immediately felt your brain build a case for why you can’t move forward, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken. We’re Kira and Denise, and we get real about what actually happens when life gets heavy: we blame circumstances, we hunt for proof that the world is against us, and we stand in our own way even harder. Then we shift the question from &ldq...
You’re on a road trip, you duck into a grocery store restroom, and there it is: a large stack of cash sitting out in the open. No owner. No explanation. Just a split second where your brain spins up a thousand stories and your body chooses before your logic catches up. We walk you through the exact moment it happened to us and why it turned into one of the most revealing conversations we’ve had about int...
In this episode, business and marketing coach Lu Trujillo joins the conversation to unpack why so many high-achieving women feel unsafe holding money, praise, and momentum, even when success is clearly working. That internal pressure to spend, fix, or prove doesn’t come from a lack of strategy, but from a nervous system that associates success with risk.
Lu introduces a powerful framework of two inner narrative...
The “what if they don’t like me?” spiral can hit even when you’ve done years of inner work and that’s exactly why we wanted to talk about it. We’re Kira and Denise, and we’re unpacking how people pleasing, wanting to be liked, and self-judgment stack on top of each other until you’re no longer acting like yourself. If you’ve ever replayed a conversation, drafted ...
One tiny shift can make your whole life feel lighter, and it starts with a question we keep coming back to: why are we taking everything so seriously? Denise and Kira pull this thread from real everyday moments, from the weird tension people carry in public to the way we over-plan “fun” until it stops being fun. The point isn’t to ignore reality or pretend hard things don’t hurt. The point is...
Your body is not being dramatic. It is being honest. When Viktoria Levenberg’s high-achiever pace collided with family stress and old trauma, her body didn’t just feel “tired” it erupted into a severe skin rash that doctors could not clearly diagnose. That breakdown became the start of a burnout recovery path that blended holistic health, nervous system awareness, and a new definition of succ...
In this episode Jenny McFadden offers a powerful reframe on healing: what if your symptoms aren’t problems to eliminate, but messages guiding you back to balance?
Jenny shares her 30+ year journey from a skeptical art teacher to an intuition mentor and quantum healing facilitator, a path sparked by unresolved symptoms that conventional medicine couldn’t explain. Through alternative healing and deep intuit...
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