Autoimmune Hour On Life Interrupted Radio With Sharon Sayler

We welcome back Pat Duckworth, the Founder of Smarter Menopause. She is a Women’s Health and Workplace Menopause Strategist working with businesses and organizations worldwide that are committed to supporting women colleagues at menopause. She is the author of several well-being books, including her international bestseller ‘Hot Women, Cool Solutions.’ In this episode, Pat and show host Sharon Sayler explore how we can tackle wellness and well-being topics to accelerate change in all environments, including the workplace plus• How to talk to management about ‘taboo topics’ like menopause,• The latest on hormones and phytoestrogens,• Understanding the changes to our bodies as we age, • Ways to embrace life and ‘taboo topics’ at every stage of life and much moreMore About Our Guest: Pat Duckworth is an international consultant, speaker, and author. Her books include ‘How to Survive Her Menopause; A practical guide to women’s health for men,’ ‘Cool Recipes for Hot Women; How to eat your way to a healthy menopau

I don’t know about you, but in the last couple of years, with various lockdowns and closures, my home has tended to get rather cluttered, and it felt draining…until I called the owner and founder of The Betty Brigade, Sharon McRill. Sharon is the author of the best-selling book: “Downsizing the Silver Tsunami: Who To Call and Where Does The Stuff Go,” a guide to going through the moving process, and a guest expert on the Dr. Phil show. Sharon shares her tips and tricks for creating a home you love to spend time in and (hopefully) for the upcoming holiday season, invite guests back over. Just some of what she shares is:• How to declutter without worrying if your kitchen whisk brings you joy• Why it’s essential to declutter even if you are on the maximalist decor trend• Who wants all that stuff, including ‘Aunt Mable’s old fur coat plus so much more…Now, I’m enlightened, enthused, and energized — it is time for my fall clean-out…! More about our guest: Sharon McRill is the owner and president of The Betty Briga

“It brought me home to myself” was one of many insights this week’s guest shared with me, your host Sharon Sayler, during my chat with Christine Powers, founder of The Philosophers Camp and Spiritual Consigliere to thought leaders worldwide.Together we share our experiences on the healing power of surrender and the other insights and ‘ahas’ she received after her odyssey of first finding the correct diagnosis and then her long, ongoing healing journey. In the fall of 2020, she got very sick. It took six months, two biopsies, three hospital stays, multiple MRIs and CT scans, bloodwork every week, eight specialists, and three months in pajamas staring at the mountains to finally receive from an outside specialist the diagnosis of long-term Lyme disease and Tularemia.*Christine shares with us what she has discovered along the way, including that going back to the ‘old way’ she used to move through the world was no longer the way for her plus• How you must be your own advocate, see through gaslighting, and not gi

I’m still pondering what to call this week’s chat! ‘Coming to Terms with What Is’ keeps coming to mind, yet ‘Easily Change Your Resistance To Change…’ is more inclusive for our far-ranging and thought-provoking chat on a primary reason many have a hard time letting go of ‘yucky’ stuff and letting in the ‘yummy’ stuff. Join us as Joel and I reveal some of the ‘yummy’ stuff! As the creator and custodian of NPA (Non-Personal Awareness) and host of The Be A Brilliant Human podcast, Joel helps us…
• Uncover how to stop taking people and situations personally• Let go of what’s holding you back from wellness• Create a kinder, gentler approach to your well-being and the world• Discover ways to bring more harmony into your life and so much more…More About Our Guest: Joel Young is the Creator & Custodian of NPA, which stands for Non-Personal Awareness, and host of The Be A Brilliant Human podcast. The NPA Process has touched the lives of millions around the world, helping them to stop taking things personally, let

In this episode of The Autoimmune Hour, we welcome Alissa Frazier, Health Coach, Therapist, Exercise Consultant, and a Thriver with Multiple Sclerosis. Alissa believes MS doesn’t have to stop you from having an extraordinary life.Now, she’s on a mission to show people with MS that life is not over after diagnosis. After chatting with Alissa, I realized that Alissa’s experience and tips for thriving with MS can help us regardless of our diagnosis. Just some of what she shares with us is• Her personal MS transformation that went against all odds
• Why working with your Emotional Nervous System is a missing link in a recovery
• How to improve body function and symptom management through a brain-body connection
• Why hope is an essential ingredient to heal and how to change the way of looking at your diagnosis, and so much more...More About Our Guest: Alissa Frazier is the founder of LissMS, which offers a unique three-pronged approach to healing Multiple Sclerosis, which includes a nutrient-dense whole foods di

We welcome one of Australia’s foremost strategic executive life and health coaches Shannah Kennedy, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) thriver and author of the new book ‘The Life Plan: Simple Strategies for Building Confidence in a Changing World.' She was nearly bedridden for twelve months, and her physical comeback took over three years. And several more years to uncover the blessings of her ordeal, one of which is a deeper understanding of herself and her life’s grand plan.She shares with us some techniques she uses daily to maintain her and her clients’ thriver status, including how she learned to protect her most valuable asset, that of herself — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. She also shares her wellness secrets on:• The power of habit stacks and mini routines to revitalize and renew,• Why it’s essential to define your values and clarify your purposes.• Ways to identify your ‘drainers’ and simplify your life,• How to develop flexible short, medium, and long-range plans plus so much mor

Patient advocate and friend Kristal Kent joined me, host Sharon Sayler to talk about how we can intentionally and unintentionally get siloed or put in easy-to-label boxes.’ When Kristal and I get together, it’s a free-flowing conversation about our wellness journey, the thrivers’ mindset, and advocacy. This time we got off on a rift about how labels and silos/boxes can hamper our wellness journey; just some of what we chat about is:• Moving past a siloed medical mentality,• Steering clear of allowing your identity to be wrapped up by your diagnosis,• Recognizing medical and or ‘disabled’ ‘gaslighting’ when it’s happening,• How this common stereotyping can harm our wellness and well-being if we don’t stay mindful of the dilemma, plus so much more…More About Our Guest: Kristal Kent is an Army Veteran, Fibromyalgia Warrior, Silo Crusher, Collaboration Cultivator, Community Voice, Healthcare Collaborator, Patient Leader, an Individual Advocate along with a Policy and Legislative Advocate, Volunteers for many Vete

We welcome back The Mojo Maker, Pamela Sylvan! She’s sharing with us how to create the life you want regardless of the current circumstances. Pamela is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, executive mentor, TV show host, branding specialist, author, keynote speaker, and community leader for mid-life women coming out of their messy middle.At the age of 50, when most women are settling down to enjoy family, friends, and the fruits of their labor, Pamela encountered a unique knowingness and confidence too strong to ignore. She followed this drive and upended what wasn’t working to design a fulfilling life from scratch.Now nearing 60, after almost a decade of fighting through the unknown, rejection, fear, near bankruptcy, and loneliness, Pamela has come to recognize life-altering wisdom that made all the difference to her survival and her ability to thrive and beat the odds. She shares with us• How to find your inner ‘knowing,’• What is resiliency and how to craft more of it,• How to dissolve your ‘stuck stories’ and be

Stress and anxiety seem to be more rampant than ever! So, I called Sharon Carne, founder of Sound Wellness and author of “Listen From the Inside Out.” In addition to being an author and the lead trainer for Sound Wellness, she has produced 8 CDs, including “Transmutation, Shed the Negative,” “Woodland Song,” and “Blissful Chimes,” and a series of DVDs, all based on creating a space of calm and well-being
In our conversation, Sharon shares how sound creates positive and negative responses in our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies, plus• How to use a simple hum to relieve stress and calm yourself,• Why it is essential to understand the impact of how sound influences well-being,• Ways to create a more peaceful environment for stress and anxiety reduction,And, so much more…More About Our Guest: Sharon Carne has felt the love of music for most of her life. After falling in love with the Classical guitar in her teens and earning her Bachelor of Music and Master of Fine Arts degrees, she has taken her

I can’t tell you how many times after I’ve thrown my hands up and said, “I’m done” things started to fall into place. Our guest, visual artist and best-selling author, Karen Kinney, shares, among other things, her wisdom with us on, “why it all falls into place in moments of surrender” from her latest bestseller Doorways to Transformation: Everyday Wisdom for the Creative Soul. In our conversation, we talk about how change only happens when we dismantle fear, plus• How to trust your inner authority and take radical responsibility,• Why it is essential to abandon the search for how life works,• Ways to create peace and or ‘settledness’ by learning to be okay with the unresolved,And, so much more…More About Our Guest: Karen Kinney is the author of two books, a visual artist, freelance writer, and teacher living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has pursued a multifaceted art and writing career, exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally, and her articles and essays have appeared in numerous publi

In this episode, we welcome Advanced Hypnotherapist and Energy Healer Jill Fischer. Jill brings a wealth of wellness modalities to help others create the life they want. She will share with us how to make deep, trusting connections with ourselves, plus• How to replace habits that no longer serve us,• How to embrace change and stop resisting what life brings us,• Tips for better sleep that renews and refreshes, as it activates your relaxation response, and so much more...More About Our Guest: Jill Fischer is an International Speaker, Advanced Hypnotherapist, and Energy Healer. She coaches people struggling with anxiety, chronic health, weight, and sleep issues when nothing’s worked, and they feel hopeless. With her light-hearted, energizing processes, she helps people feel healthier, wealthier, calmer, lighter, and happier than they’ve ever felt before. Learn more at www.JillFischer.caPlease share this link to our chat with family and friends: https://UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/JillFischer_2022.This show is n

Join us in welcoming Nikki Burnett, a Functional Nutritionist and Founder of Taste Life Nutrition – a Health Detective Practice. After suffering a 2-year headache that affected every part of her life and dealing with the frustration of feeling helpless with no answers, she decided to take her health into her own hands.Over time and with consistent research into many health modalities, Nikki was able to find the answers she needed to heal. Now seven years of being in practice as a Functional Nutritionist and over 20 years of study, Nikki is helping her clients regain their health too. In this episode, Nikki is sharing with us how to• Understand the impact of nutrition and your genetics on your recovery,• Uncover patterns, triggers, and influences that are keeping you stuck,• Discover what hormones have to do with your immune system • Reveal if nutrition can play a part in your fertility struggles,Plus so much more...More about our guest: Nikki Burnett has long been interested in nutrition and its role in our e

In this episode, we welcome Pi Venus Winslow, the founder and creator of Full Venus Rising - a global online community dedicated to healing the wounds of childhood narcissistic abuse. As the daughter of a malignant narcissistic mother, Pi Venus Winslow has a lifetime of experience and understanding of the emotional and psychological effects of being raised by a narcissistic parent and how it can affect your health. Pi shares with us how "finding her voice" helped her conquer Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and • How to end the struggle with self-worth and the wounds of our hearts, • Why it's critical to reclaim your authentic self and live intentionally free from codependency and narcissistic abuse,• Ways to overcome the devastating and too often long-term effects of being raised by a malignant narcissist,Plus so much more...More about our guest: Through her own transformation journey Pi Venus Winslow has stepped into her purpose as a transformation life coach to help those recovering from a narcissistic upbringing.

Today, we welcome Dr. Jenny Tufenkian to chat about why we can sometimes hit a 'ceiling' in our healing. A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) thriver herself, Dr. Jenny dug deep into the literature and uncovered five root causes of CFS. Using her 20-plus years of research and experience, she developed an effective road map for lasting change in her patients with CFS and other complex chronic medical conditions. In this episode, she shares tips on how to break through those 'ceilings' in your healing and• How to begin to uncover your root cause(s)of complex medical conditions,• Why some symptoms of long cov*d are similar to CFS/ME,• Why true healing is more than the physical body,• How we can sabotage our well-being with self-care for surviving instead of self-care for thriving, plus much more....More about Dr. Jenny TufenkianDr. Jenny Tufenkian is a Naturopathic Physician and Functional Medicine Educator. She teaches patients, students, and physicians the latest information on understanding complex chronic diseas

Limiting beliefs and negative self-talk can slowly erode self-confidence, self-esteem, and even our well-being and health. In this week’s episode, Roberta Mittman, L.Ac., founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York City, will show us how to escape negative self-talk and offers tips to change that self-talk and the stories we tell ourselves so that they support our health, including:• The importance of recognizing the harmful consequences of negative self-talk;• How to stop blaming, shaming, and criticizing yourself; • Get over limiting beliefs to feel safe and supported in mind and body;• How limiting beliefs can keep us from getting what we want.Plus, I even coax some tips on combatting seasonal allergies as we close and so much more….More about our guest: Roberta Mittman, L.Ac. the Founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York helps her clients understand how their minds affect their health to overcome chronic and long-term issues and challenges. She’s a dedicated multi-disciplined alt

We are welcoming back the amazing Sarah Peyton. In this episode, Sarah and I chat on a wide variety of simple ways to take care of ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and the latest wisdom from her upcoming The Resonance Summit’s Speakers Dan Seigel, Sue Johnson, and Jade Sasser, to name a few... plus insights into• How the words we choose change our brains, • Why Sarah calls “emotions, the human music of life,”• How to uncover and revise an unconscious contract,• Are we doing self-care for surviving or self-care for thriving? And much more....More about Sarah PeytonSarah Peyton is the author of W.W. Norton’s Your Resonant Self, Your Resonant Self Workbook and Affirmations for Turbulent Times. She teaches and speaks internationally about the ways that relationship and language transform the brain and prevent and heal trauma. Audience members leave Sarah’s presentations with more wisdom and self-compassion and often making sense to themselves for the first time.Her free summit, The Res

In this episode, we welcome Career, Transition, and Empowerment Coach Laurie Lawson, CEC, PCC. As a Certified Empowerment Coach since 2004, Laurie specializes in transition challenges, strategic planning, goal actualization, and personal life re-invention, plus so much more. Sharon and Laurie talk about transition exhaustion, staying on track with our wellness goals, and re-invention in this raw-and-real episode. Laurie shares with us quick-change tools we can use to create momentum building, sustainable well-being plans plus• How to politely say "no" and maintain relationships• How to move away from distractions and set beneficial boundaries• How to create a positive mindset even in constant change• How to create and keep healing habits going?And more...More about our guest: Laurie Lawson is a Certified Empowerment Coach from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Certified EQ Mentor Coach, a Certifie

We welcome Lee Tomlinson, the author of Compassion Heals: From Self-care to Healthcare. He’s also affectionately known as Patient Lee from his TED Talk, where he wowed his audience with more than showing up in a patient gown.He’d be the first to tell you he led a charmed life until his world crashed around him when his doctors discovered Stage 3+ throat cancer. Lee will share with us:
• What inspired him to create “The C.A.R.E. Effect Movement
• How does trauma is the result when treatment is lacking in compassion
• What is compassion, and why is it a powerful change agent
• The life-saving benefits of giving others compassionate care
Plus more…More About Lee: After a lifetime of extraordinary experiences as a highly successful entrepreneur and long-term customer service expert, Lee Tomlinson faced a battle with Stage 3+ throat cancer. His journey through cancer and encounters with compassion-less care led him to severe depression and thoughts of suicide. It opened his eyes to the life-saving benefits of comp

When everyone else gave up, this week’s guest Noah Hammond Tyrrell went to “work.” Noah, a spiritual life & business coach, got a call that no one ever wants… his father had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Noah heard the resignation in everyone’s voices—doctors, family, even his dad. But that’s when Noah went to work…He went home and dug into the trainings he’d taken in the prior years with a natural healer "who’d cured thousands using ancient wisdom." Noah reviewed other wellness approaches he’d studied, including the benefits of juicing, the use of cannabis—particularly hemp oils, and other ‘natural’ modalities. Before long, Noah was gently coercing his reluctant father to drink massive amounts of beet and carrot juice, along with taking hemp oil capsules. Noah says, “then the miracle happened; not only did dad learn to love the protocol, but the tumor began to shrink, and soon it was gone!” The doctors are mystified—but not Noah and his family. The following month, Noah and his wife launched

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Carly Hudson, D.C. As an infant, Dr. Carly suffered a life-threatening illness. She was left with “invisible handicaps,” including balance disorders, muscle spasticity, and hearing loss. She had to begin again to learn how her body worked, and so began her path of life-long learning and healing. With the “gift of this injury,” Dr. Carly has spent her life exploring how conscious self-care influences our mind, body, and spirit.She shares with us essential shifts in self-care, including the beneficial things we can do right now instead of the constant search for a silver bullet, including • The truth about your “issues are in your tissues,”• Her lessons learned from treating her patients and her own lifetime of handicaps, chronic pain, illness, and the pursuit of healing,• Why striving for “perfect” health is an illusion and ways to optimize the health you have now,• Empowered ways to make healthy choices and become more resilient plus so much more…More about our guest: Dr. Carly