Lyme Voice Radio, Discussing Your Lyme Disease Journey With Aaron & Sarah Sanchez

About My Guest: Dr. Lauren Tessier has undergone training as a CIRS Certified Physician specializing in the treatment of biotoxin illness due to mold and water-damaged buildings.  Life After Mold,  uses a patient-centered approach to help recover those that are suffering from mold-related illness.  An individually tailored, patient-centered approach is taken, employing a combination of Functional Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine. Key Takeaways: I had become a “mold canary.”  Finding and managing mold is a very insidious process. You realize a year into feeling bad that you are dealing with mycotoxins, mold fragments and it is triggering histamine response issues. It doesn’t happen overnight. (5:00) Learning to understand MOLD and the remediation process for myself has made me a better practitioner because I know how to help people who can’t afford to spend $10,000-$20,000+ on remediating their houses. Which is more common than not. Living with mold sensitivities often comes with warning signs. For example

About My Guest:   How do you explain your absence from society? How do you explain the lost years?    “I was busy saving my life”-Georgia Wood   Georgia Wood started battling Lyme in highschool while training as an elite skier. After years of confusion, not being heard and ongoing treatments, she now hosts the Blooming With Lyme Podcast where she inspires people “To NOT give up their voices.”    Key Takeaways:   I kept saying to my parents “something is wrong.”   I was trying so hard to be normal. I knew something was up but I couldn’t get anyone’s attention. Don’t lose your voice. If you know something is wrong, keep saying it. A Gamechanger for me was writing a poem to my family that finally broke through. Hearing other people speaking out about their experiences with Lyme helped me to further understand the illness. Removing myself from a toxic living environment was a gamechanger.  I have days where I have to go “MIA” in order to build myself back up.  If you continue to take small steps, they may not

About My Guest:   Jackie Shea-Life, health and business coach.  Key Takeaways: Lyme acted as a catalyst for me to go IN to the darkness and heal it all. Indonesia for ozone treatments, went to Florida for peptide treatments, saw healers, herbal protocols.  Insomnia, hair loss, depression, muscle twitching, joint pain, fibro pain I gave myself over to the spiritual, emotional and physical work.  Casting a wide net of support lightened the load. Give up the illusion that western medicine (alone) will save you. I felt a level of abandonment by doctors. Everything with Lyme is a process...I felt abandoned by medicine, my family, friends who could no longer be friends.  All these identity layers were starting to go away: my looks, my confidence, my brain, my feistiness, my adventurist spirit. What happened is that I had to find my soul, my spirit. Common variable immune deficiency-  Mindset-Moment. I had spent a lot of time just waiting for the illness to be over. So I could “go back” to life as it was.  Two dif

It is possible to enjoy the holiday season with a few tips, tricks, boundaries and mindsets! The holidays are tough! Aaron And Sarah discuss Top 5 Mindsets for making the most of the holidays while battling a chronic Lyme disease, chronic fatigue or chronic pain.  Thank you to this week’s sponsors: Tickwarriors.com Safe Insect protection for you your family, pets, and livestock. Use LYMEVOICE for a 10% discount on all first-time orders!!!   Envita.com medical Integrative medicine specializing in chronic Lyme and many other chronic conditions and co-infections.   MedicalBillGurus.com Talk to Daniel today at Medical Bill Gurus will help reduce medical bills and provide assistance to patients navigating a complicated medical system. Links Kangen Water- http://www.lymewater.com/ Envita Medical –Envita Medical Lyme Voice Facebook  The Lyme Voice Podcast- Lymevoice.com Lyme Documentary-Disappearing From Society, Life with chronic Lyme in 14 minutes…Documentary Little Bite, BIG TROUBLE, available on Amazo

About My Guest:   My battle with Lyme Disease was easily the most difficult experience of my life. A journey that lasted almost 3 years, that included more than 15 doctors, several incorrect diagnoses, and countless days where I wanted to give up. One of the worst parts of my illness, besides my symptoms, was my loss of identity. I am a singer/songwriter. I love my job and everything that comes with it. The traveling, the writing, the performances, and especially interacting with audience members. So much of my life was wrapped up in my job. When I got sick, all of it was taken away. Are you still a writer when you haven’t written anything in years? Are you still a singer if you never sing? I was scared that my illness would take away what made me unique, and what made me proud of myself.   Key Takeaways: “If you are listening to this. You are my HERO because you haven’t given up.” “You are NOT crazy” Finding a community of people who understand Lyme is HUGE! The Garcia Protocol-Chelation and ozone therapy

Can we wire our brain to heal from chronic illness? … Yes, we can!  Author Annie Hopper shares triumphant stories of people who have recovered from chronic, mysterious and often disabling illnesses and relays the science behind remapping the brain for healing.    In 2008, Hopper founded The Dynamic Neural Retraining System, a drug-free, neuroplasticity-based healing approach to rewire chronic illness disease patterns in the brain as seen in Chemical Sensitivities, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and many other chronic illnesses.   Key Takeaways: Author Annie Hopper is on a global mission to take the mystery out of mysterious illnesses. Recovering from medical PTSD is possible. Feeling invalidated by a lack of recognition. Limbic system dysfunction. “I came to this (DNRS) by way of suffering.”-Annie Hopper Electric hypersensitivity syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. “I felt poisoned by my environment.” (cellphones, chemicals, detergents) “I had become someone I didn’t know.”-Annie Hop

Protecting People, Pets & Property from TICKS   About My Guest:   Dr. Jennifer Platt has decades of experience in public health and environmental program development.  She has led the creation of nationally recognized, award-winning education programs and has spoken extensively to audiences of all sizes.    Dr. Platt’s personal experience with tick-borne illness led her to create TickWarriors in 2016, which provides eco-friendly tick protection for people, pets, and property. The pervasive need for education and awareness led Dr. Platt to co-found TBC United in 2018 with Beth Carrison.    Key Takeaways: Non-toxic alternatives to Deet and Permithian.  While working on her doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina in 2011, Dr. Platt contracted Ehrlichiosis. She was later confirmed to also have Lyme Disease and Babesia. It was an illuminating experience to feels so poor on the inside, and look so normal on the outside. Eco-friendly tick prevention. At the 2019 Liv Lyme Summit...the to

About My Guest: CEO and founder of The Mighty a platform in which people can write about their own experience with health-related issues.   Bio: Emily Levy is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur and patient advocate through her work as the CEO and Co-Founder of Mighty Well. Mighty Well creates innovative products in the emerging Adaptive Wear market that is focusing on inclusivity in the chronic illness and disability communities which affect 1 in 3 Americans. As patients and caregivers ourselves, we apply sportswear fabric technology to the medical industry and building a digital supportive community of Friends in the Fight for our consumers. Levy and the team are leading the global charge of helping patients and caregivers turn sickness into strength with the vision of Mighty Well being the Under Armour of Health Care.   While Emily does love speaking and inspiring health care professionals, she loves her husband, Yousef, and dog, Olive, more. Together, they live in New York City. Key Takeaways:

About My Guest:   Callie Dixon is a school psychologist, chronic illness blogger, and host of The Chronically Well Podcast wants everyone to know it is possible to live chronically well even while chronically ill. If you’d like to live a healthier life, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually, welcome to the Chronically Well Podcast where we will discuss how you can thrive in all of these areas, even in the midst of your current pain or struggle.   You may be sick, but you don’t have to live that way, friend. Stop living chronically ill and start living chronically well, today.   Key Takeaways: Can your MINDSET make you well?  Interstitial cystitis (in-tur-STISH-ul sis-TIE-tis) is a chronic condition causing bladder pressure, bladder pain and sometimes pelvic pain. The pain ranges from mild discomfort to severe pain. The condition is a part of a spectrum of diseases known as painful bladder syndrome As a psychologist, I saw that there wasn’t a lot of support available to people after receiv

About My Guest: Kris Newby is an award-winning science writer at Stanford University and the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary, Under Our Skin, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was a 2010 Oscar semifinalist.  She has two degrees in engineering, a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a Master’s degree from Stanford University.  Previously, Newby was a technology writer for Apple and other Silicon Valley companies. She lives in Palo Alto. And now…my interview with Kris Newby.   Key Takeaways: Her husband and she both have a personal fight against Lyme after contracting Lyme Disease after a vacation to Martha’s Vineyard Her journey down the “rabbit hole” of Lyme as she researched and filmed Under Our skin.   Lyme disease is often worse for children because of their maturing neurological systems.  Lyme disease can remain dormant for years. It was pretty clear when filming Under Our Skin the documentary that we couldn’t get funding if we went down the route of “conspir

Key Takeaways: I am not my illness. It is ok to say “I’m not ok.”  Understanding the tole of being a caregiver for someone with chronic Lyme disease. Removing toxins from your home-Stink! Choosing the Lyme Stop treatment center. Creating boundaries that heal- It’s ok to say “NO.”  Premaking healthy foods. The power of coffee enemas and detoxing. Acupuncture Parasites-get them out. Stop the tornado of Lyme, then go after the cleanup. The healthy spouse-has to take over the bills, handle the outdoor chores, handle   the inside chores, deal with the rest of life. Unlearning Lyme when you are in remission is an entirely different game.  Dissociation from reality. Until some of the physical pain subsides, you can’t really deal with the emotional pains. When physical pain consumes your mind, you shove aside the energy attached to the emotions you feel moment by moment. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)- “It is hard to describe what it feels like to release something that you didn’t understand was there.”-Ashley

087 Together We Rise! With Suzanne Burden    About My Guest: The microphone gets turned on Sarah Schlichte Sanchez as Suzanne Burden  (our newest co-host) dives deep into the realities of living with chronic Lyme disease from a proactive and comedic perspective. Key Takeaways: Boots on the ground healing support group “Together we will rise” in Fort Wayne, IN. “This will not happen to another person on my watch”-Suzanne Burden This has become about justice for me. Finding yourself again after periods of extreme illness. Building resilience for yourself and your marriage Our faith taught us how to self-sacrifice.  Lyme forces a reckoning and tension into each conversation. I’m ok, with being in the process of transformation. As you come up against problems in treatment “Keep every option open.”  The POWER of colonics and juicing. Don’t be scared of juicing, you’ll develop a rhythm. You have to come to a place where you become  your own physician The “cost” is the courage to do it. EMDR What can you do for fu

LymeMIND is designed to enable a systems medicine approach to identify novel biomarkers and new therapeutic opportunities. Through our network of collaborators, we are able to interrogate the complex biology of samples collected from Lyme-affected individuals using molecular profiling technologies and applying advanced statistical and machine learning approaches to move rapidly from “Big Data” to knowledge and improved understanding of the disease.   About My Guest: Patricia Savi Glowe is the Director of Operations for the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare (INGH) in the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, and the Director of Strategy & Operations for the Precision Health Enterprise (PHE) in the Mount Sinai Health System. She leads the organization and development of research programs and directs operational efforts supporting the entirety of INGH, PHE, and associated centers. She joined Mount Sinai's Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences in January 2013 and began her current work with Dr. D

Title: Learning To Draw Strength From Within!   About My Guest: The microphone gets turned on Sarah Schlichte Sanchez as Jessica Donaldson (our newest co-host) dives deep into the realities of living with chronic Lyme disease from a proactive and comedic perspective.   Key Takeaways: The Gerson Therapy Choosing to follow a pathway towards healing “We’re not faking being sick. We are faking being well.” Compartmentalizing the trauma-survival techniques Depersonalization-a state in which one's thoughts and feelings seem unreal or not to belong to oneself, or in which one loses all sense of identity. Healing is a set of choices, finding a protocol and that suites your intuition Most of the treatments that you will need to implement have a very high “suck-factor” associated with them.  Understand that your lifestyle will need to change to promote your health. Conscientiously meeting your own needs is a skill that must be developed Shame-When you can’t get better, there is a lot of shame. The Lyme-Pit of Despair

LymeNado- The Tornado that is Lyme disease treatment About My Guest:   Trying to recover from chronic Lyme disease is similar to having a tornado randomly touch down, creating havoc on some or all parts of your life. Aaron and Sarah discuss the emotional ups and downs of life with Lyme disease and what it takes to get through months and years of treatment.  Key Takeaways: Join us next week at the Liv Lyme Summit Sept 21-22, 2019 A butt-bug story The feelings of unworthiness “Lies like to hide”-Aaron  Pulling out the emotional weeds that take root while operating in survival mode AGT’s Benicio Bryant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RanEWUsONsw Hiding the emotional scars of chronic illness Letting go...of shame, unworthiness, anything that holds you back from healing.  Understanding the neuropathways of trauma Choosing to continue to “LIVE” within the tornado-like chaos  Losing my voice The ping-ponging effect of working through emotional trauma Acceptance “Forgive yourself for being a horrible human being.”

Are you worthy of having good health? Is your self-worth, self-esteem and your own sense of worthiness tied up in your health and the actions you will take.   About My Guest: Adrienne Nolan-Smith is a board-certified patient advocate, speaker and the founder of WellBe, a media company and lifestyle brand focused on bridging the large gap between the healthcare system and the wellness movement. Her mission is to help people prevent and reverse chronic health issues naturally.    From her 20-year journey through the conventional healthcare system as a patient, caretaker and then technology professional working with hospitals, Adrienne has seen how empowering patients through integrative health and wellness is key to preventing and reversing the chronic disease crisis. WellBe is her greatest passion and her life’s work. Key Takeaways: An antidote for suicide-Find something that you care about deeply, that moves you forward and keeps you alive! Your health is really a journey. Accepting the longevity-Reversing

About My Guest:  Kyle J. Willis is a 26-year-old Nationally Published Fitness Model and Chronic Lyme Disease warrior. In 2011, Kyle was infected with Lyme Disease, a tick-borne illness, in his hometown of Londonderry, New Hampshire. After undergoing 3.5 years of high-dose antibiotic treatment, Kyle made the decision to get off of all medicine and began his healing journey through fitness and nutrition.    Despite suffering from neurological and cardiac complications, Kyle puts his faith in God and continues onward in the Fitness Industry, landing on the cover of Men’s Fitness Magazine and frequently featured in Muscle and Fitness Magazine.   Kyle currently resides in Huntington Beach, California, where you can find him spending time with his wife Madison, working out at Equinox, reading in local coffee shops, and playing golf.    Key Takeaways: Life with Lyme is like living in the “Upsidedown” of Stranger Things.  Having Lyme disease throughout college felt like learning to live with a 200lb weight. Ah-ha m

About My Guest:   My guest today is Tami Moore, NHP (Natural Holistic Practitioner) Certified Natural Health Provider, natural lifestyle blogger, and Lyme disease survivor. Moore's wellness coaching is helping men and women to reverse, heal and overcome chronic disease and imbalances using natural therapies that make sense for their lifestyles and bodies. If your symptoms feel like a mystery, you’re not alone! My Lyme disease symptoms fooled countless doctors, but with natural health there is hope.   Key Takeaways:   Managing your mind, body connection while going through trauma is KEY. Regaining your health BEFORE pregnancy. Stay focused on your reason for fighting, knowing your BIG WHY is a vital aspect to endurance. "This disease is controlling me, but I'm going to get it to the point where I'm controlling the disease." Create a health team-Lyme doctors, Naturopathic physicians, Integrative medicine doctors. How to keep your heart hopeful during the sick years. How to heal the heart after recovery. Unders

In this episode, Aaron and Sarah talk about the primary treatments used at Envita Medical for treating neurological Lyme disease. Sarah went to treatment in 2013 for late-stage neurological Lyme disease and Envita saved her life. After being reinfected in 2018 she returned and did a second round of treatment in 2019.    Segment 1 FIGHTING is a mindset! ~Patient Care Coordinators are a vital link between you and all your physicians. They keep tabs on you throughout your entire visit, make sure you are getting to your outside appointments. So many times throughout my years of battling chronic Lyme I would wish that someone could be in charge of me, give me advice, or help me make decisions, that is what the Patient Care Coordinators do for you, it is fantastic. Click here to see more https://www.envita.com/about   ~NMD's-Naturopathic Medical Doctor (integrative) Most of the physicians at Envita are Naturopathic Medical Doctors which is my favorite type of physician because they problem-solve with a wi

Aaron Sanchez gives a candid look at his struggles. As he discusses Chronic Illness and How it affects the caretaker in illness. In his case, he is also is a Father and Husband. Join him as he discusses a topic that has not been addressed nearly as much as the disease or patients struggles have. This is a very important part of the path to health!  This is such a huge disease, we must have help in order to heal. We need all the help we can get!  Sarah's Go Fund Me Page    News report     Links Kangen Water- http://www.lymewater.com/   Envita Medical -Envita Medical Lyme Voice Facebook Little Bite Big Trouble    The Lyme Voice Podcast- Lymevoice.com Lyme Documentary-Disappearing From Society, Life with chronic Lyme in 14 minutes…Documentary Little Bite, BIG TROUBLE, available on Amazon -Children’s book about Lyme disease Little Bite Big Trouble