Autoimmune Hour On Life Interrupted Radio With Sharon Sayler

Have you ever thought about your legacy? I know some people think that can be a bit grim, but since my diagnosis, I’ve been thinking a lot about creating my legacy before time runs out... And, I see a strong association between legacy and patient advocacy. Maybe like you, I must make meaning of what life has thrown my way. Now, I’m passionate about others not having to experience autoimmune and wanting others to optimize their health 'before it's too late.' So when my friend Susie Briscoe released her latest book, “Ascension to Legacy: How to Live Your Legacy in Your Lifetime,” I asked her to share with us what she’s learned about legacy. Susie first defines it for us "...legacy is something you create during your lifetime with the sole idea of benefiting generations who will follow you, whether in your immediate family or whether you broaden your horizons with the intention to benefit humanity.” In this episode, she reflects on her experiences of: • The multiple ways to reassess your life,• How to uncover th

We welcome back Dr. Nasha Winters! Each time she comes to The Autoimmune Hour, we always have a fun and informative time. When I read Dr. Nasha’s latest co-authored book “Mistletoe and The Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology,” I asked her to come back on the show to share her insights on the latest in enhancing our immune system and the fascinating new approaches of care, including the clinical use of “plant-based supplements that stimulate the immune system’s own power — such as mistletoe…” Mistletoe, in nature, is a poison, as are other plants such as the Pacific yew tree that are now being tested and used in clinical formulations for the basis for specific treatments.We also chat about the latest in:• Where modern eating habits have gone wrong,• How to advocate for a more human-centered form of medical care,• Easy to do changes to create a robust immune system plus so much more...More About Our Guest: Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO, is a global healthcare authority and best-selling author in integrative

In this fun and wide-ranging chat, we explore how play, fun, and humor are part of self-acceptance and improving your well-being. A return guest, award-winning author Liberty Forrest, shares how to make meaning and creativity even in misfortune.We also explore 
• Ways to get over feeling down and reviving your creativity• Why it’s so important to take time for yourself• How to find your inner spark and move between your head and your heartPlus much more…About our guest: Our guest, Liberty Forrest, is an award-winning author, speaker, and contributor to numerous informational publications, including Huffington Post. She is also a senior contributor at SportsEdTV. And, a lover of really dumb jokes.Check out her articles over at Medium (https://medium.com/@libertyforrestauthor) and her two Medium publications. She has written numerous fiction and nonfiction books that cover a range of topics. Learn more about Liberty at www.LibertyForrest.com.The information provided on UnderstandingAutoimmune.com, Life Interrup

Today's guest, Heather Foisy is an autoimmune "thriver," a chronic illness advocate, creator of PhoenixSoulWarrior.com, and now published author of a children's picture book titled "I'm the Biggest Helper with Momma's Autoimmune Disease." This charming book explains invisible illnesses in an easy-to-learn way. Although written for the zero to six set, it's an excellent book for all ages to understand what it is like day-to-day with something hard to see and even harder to understand, including the ups and downs of a long-term health condition. Heather also shares • How to explain your "invisible" condition(s) in ways that others can understand,• How to choose the right medical team for you,• Why it's important to share your story and experiences,• Great ideas to find more resources regarding your specific questions,• How to move through and past the ever-changing landscape of autoimmuneand more…More about our Guest: Heather Foisy is an autoimmune thriver, making the best of her life even with the diagnoses

Sarah Peyton, one of our most requested experts, returns to share with us about the transformative power of affirmations from her latest book “Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind.”If you’ve listened to our other episodes with Sarah, you know how rich and deep her insights are. In this episode, Sarah shares her insights on the power of wondering and how resonate-language affirmations encourage and accompany you through change. We also uncover • Why advice doesn’t change anything in the brain and creates more stress • Using affirmations to integrate deeper layers of self-understanding. • Find out how the power of resonant language supports positive change — plus much more…About our Guest: Sarah Peyton is an author, international speaker, and neuroscience educator dedicated to helping you transform your brain into a kinder, cozier place to live. Her other books, "Your Resonant Self" and "Your Resonant Self Workbook," provide foundational neuroscience concepts, including uncon

This week we welcome author Darlene Turriff. Bedridden for over 20 years, she created eight years ago, a complete reversal of her symptoms. She recounts her success in her bestselling book called “Mastering the Protocol - 10 Success Strategies to Reverse Autoimmune and Heal Your Life Forever.” It was a winner of the international impact book award in July 2021. Darlene shares several of the strategies that allowed her to create remission of her symptoms, including •The success strategies needed to take back your power over the triggers of the autoimmune response. • How to take back your power to change and the problem of only looking externally for solutions,• How to talk to yourself about your condition(s) and create the autonomy to heal yourself, plus much more...More About Our Guest: Darlene Turriff is on a mission to awaken the healing power of people suffering from autoimmune. She was ill to the point of being bedridden for over 20 years and now eight years into a complete reversal of symptoms. Her book

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MldORJ9M9Zg 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 carePlus 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

Celebrating my 350th episode, Bev Martin the founder of InnerActive, joins in for a fun, free-ranging chat about changing the nature of the way we think and talk about dis-ease and wellness. We explore empathy, intuition, self-talk, and creativity to understand ourselves and others at a deeper level during this time of disruption and extreme change. Bev shares with us her powerful insights and techniques to:• Amp up our empathy, creativity, and intuition,• Use powerful questions to change directions when things are not going well, • Find success through self-talk and deep listening,plus so much more...About our Guest: Bev Martin is a natural and trained intuitive, a certified Professional Coach (PCC) Member of ICF international Coaches, Master Practitioner of NLP, (MNLP) and NLP and Health (HNLP) Certified Facilitator of Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling, Certified Hypnotherapist. Learn more about Bev and her amazing work at www.BevMartin.comShare this link with family and friends: www.UnderstandingAutoi

In this episode, we welcome Wendy Darling. In her lovingly written, gently urgent manual for reinvention, “Create Your Miraculous Life: It’s Never Too Late,” Wendy guides us to reset our passion, focus, energy, and mindset to create the life of our dreams. As Wendy shares ways to recaptured goals and intentions, she leads us to discover:• Gentle ways to uncover and identify our priorities and core values,• Simple ways to maintain our focus,• How to deal with our internal ‘mischief makers’ as Wendy likes to call them,• Ways to foster self-compassion and reinvention and more… More about Wendy Darling: Wendy is the founder of Miraculous Living and a recognized relationship and transformational change expert.  She is the creator of The Miraculous Living Method™, her unique transformational system, that allows clients to gently remove internal barriers that have held them back while repositioning them to close the gap to be living the life of their dreams finally.  Wendy has over 35 years of experience as a busin

We welcome Pat Mussieux, an internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning business coach, TV host, and author. Several times life has thrown Pat a curveball, including leaving a 22-year marriage with as she describes ‘nothing’ In this episode, she shares her tips and techniques for starting over, and• The importance of a strong community• The five things she did that changed everything• How to create the kind of life you want to have• Her daily nonnegotiable gift to herself And much more More our Guest: Pat Mussieux is an internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning business coach, TV host, and author in Edmonton, Canada. Pat has won the STEVIE Award for Female Executive of the Year and Female Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada 4x!Since the pandemic and all the changes that happened in the world of professional speaking, Pat has immersed herself into the Wellness space and is committed to helping professional women improve their health and wealth to live a long and happy life. Learn more at www.patmu

We welcome humor expert and professional standup comedian Alicia Dattner. She will share tips on making meaning during difficult times and on using humor and laughter to create a positive mindset and well-being, plus• Simple ways to exercise your laughter muscle,• How embodied writing can help get to the heart of the matter,• How to press pause on your inner critic,• Ways to cultivate compassion and kindness for yourself,And so much more…More about Alicia Dattner: Alicia learned early to find the humor in the dysfunction she saw all about her. She has turned that understanding into a fantastic career that has seen her perform with Maria Bamford, Ali Wong, Moshe Kasher, Arj Barker, Kate Willett, Ann Randolph, and many more luminaries. Alicia has been mentored by talented comedians over the years, including W. Kamau Bell (HBO, FX), Eugene Mirman (Flight of the Conchords), and Bill Santiago (Huffington Post, CNN, Comedy Central). And, she’s been knocking the tube socks off audiences at clubs like The Improv and

Fireworks of ‘A-ha’s’ will go off as we discover the great tips our guest, Connie Benjamin shares in this episode. Connie is the #1 International Best Selling Author of the book ‘Women With Fire™: Six Secrets to Purpose, Prosperity, and Passion,’ international speaker, and podcast host.Today, Connie shares her quick-start-parts of her proprietary My Fire Within System to help you live your purpose, increase prosperity, and create passionate relationships.Now, you might be wondering what’s this has to do with autoimmune? I learned long ago that how we do one thing is how we do everything, and if you don’t bring passion, purpose, and goals to your healing, it will be a difficult battle. Connie details her own struggles with a health-crisis plus• How to get very clear on your priorities,• How to put yourself first without feeling guilt or upset,• How to discover what’s important to you,• How to set simple, actionable F.I.R.E. goals that work including health goalsand so much more…More about our guest: Connie Ben

Did you know 77% of doctor’s visits are due to stress-related and stress-exacerbated illness? Our guest, Michele Johnson MHS, PA-C, is a Duke-trained Family Medicine Physician Assistant and Certified Professional Life Coach. She has traveled to Cuba and China to learn holistic approaches to medicine and healing in addition to her traditional Western medicine training. Known worldwide as The Pain Free PA and the author of ‘Pain Free: How to Live a Full Life Despite Chronic Pain,’ Michele shares with us her successful stress-reduction strategies and• Her personal inspirational and motivating story to a pain-free life,• How the simple act of listening is a significant part of helping someone heal,• How food, sleep, and other everyday strategies we can quickly implement will decrease dis-ease and so much more. More about our guest: Michele Johnson, MHS, PA-C, specializes in conquering stress. She is known for her unique approach to personalized healthcare and her trademark’ Stress Care as The New Healthcare.’ Aft

We welcome Robert G. Lahita MD, Ph.D. (AKA “Dr. Bob”), Director of the Institute for Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases at Saint Joseph Health Newark, New Jersey. As the traditional flu and cold season return, he will share how the immune system works and proven ways to protect and strengthen our immune system, including: • Foods and nutrients that naturally boost immunity  • The lowdown on getting vaccinated for Flu and Covid variants • Helping our kids stay healthy  • The importance of sleep and stress reduction on our immune system, plus much more... About our guest: Dr. Robert Lahita is the author of more than 16 books and 150 scientific publications in the field of autoimmunity. He has been a leading consultant for media across the globe, including Reuters, Newsmax, NBC Now, MSNBC, EWTN, CBSN, Fox News, and more. His latest book, ‘IMMUNITY STRONG: Boost Your Natural Healing Power and Live to 100’, comes out October 2021. Find out what modern science reveals about how the immune system connects to every pa

Tonight is an encore presentation with Sarah Peyton, one of our most requested experts. She returns to share with us what creates resilience and how we can harness it and other ‘superpowers’ to optimize our well-being even in times of significant change. Given the current state of affairs, I thought what an important topic to revisit. Enjoy! And see you next week with a new episode. Sarah shares her insights and tips to move from self-criticism to self-encouragement and self-love, plus how to
• Create an ally-ship with your body even with autoimmune
• Decode the messages your body is sending you
• Integrate deeper layers of self-understanding and empathy for ourselves and others
• Use the power of resonant language to support strength, healing, and create positive change — plus much more… About our Guest: Sarah Peyton is an author, international speaker, and neuroscience educator dedicated to helping you transform your brain into a kinder, cozier place to live. Her book ‘Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditation

Did you know that the state of our world has everything to do with our relationship with our Mother? That profound question from this week’s guest, Kerri Hummingbird, intrigued me… In this encore episode, Kerri and I chat about her best-selling book “Love Is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound.” It is an intriguing, insightful look at how the Mother Wound can unknowingly direct our decisions. She offers actionable steps each of us can take to support and change ourselves, our families, and our world, such as
• How to uncover shadow those decisions that are keeping you stuck
• Tips for healing a Mother Wound
• Ways to support ourselves and others in creating lasting harmony within 
and so much more.About our Guest: Kerri Hummingbird, Soul Guide and host of Soul Nectar Show is the #1 internationally best-selling author of “The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama” and the award-winning best-selling book “Awakening To Me: One Woman’s Journey To Self Love” which describes the early years of her spiritual awake

In this episode, I catch up with patient advocate and friend Kristal Kent. It’s a free-flowing conversation we recently had about our best learnings from our wellness journey to thrivers and advocacy. Just some of what we chat about is:• The power of sharing stories of ‘invisible illness’• How to talk about your diagnosis • Your diagnosis is not your identity• Uncovering medical ‘gaslighting’• Inexpensive wellness and well-being hacks and more…Our guest: Kristal Kent is an Army Veteran Living with Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Degenerative Disc Disease, and other Chronic Illnesses and Chronic Pain Conditions. Kristal advocates on behalf of the Fibromyalgia and Veteran Communities, focusing on Awareness, Education, and Legislative Advocacy initiatives. Kristal's advocacy work has been recognized Nationally and Internationally. Kristal is the founder of The Fibromyalgia Pain Chronicles and Veteran Voice For Fibromyalgia and she currently volunteers as a Board of Trustee for the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America a

All too often, a medical diagnosis(es) will impact life successes. In this week’s episode, we welcome Simone Giangiordano, better known as Simone G, a lifestyle and business coach for those with health challenges. Through training entrepreneurship, Simone brings success and hope to those with visible and invisible health challenges. You’ll discover what she’s learned along the way, including• How entrepreneurs with health challenges build thriving businesses,• How to manage a business alongside illnesses and or injuries,• Why the courage to say “I CAN’T” will set you free,• How to overcome societal and cultural norms, including misconceptions and the stigma around chronic health issues, plus much more... More about our guest: Simone Giangiordano’s transition from a corporate career to entrepreneurship resulted from her health challenges. As she figured out how to manage a business alongside several illnesses, injuries, and caregiving for her father, she learned what matters most — the legacy we will leave and

In this episode, we chat with natural health expert Elizabeth Yarnell ND. She is also a patented inventor and multi-passionate entrepreneur focusing on chronic inflammation, how it influences our bodies and our lives, and overcoming it...She shares her personal MS recovery story and many of the techniques and tips she has learned on what has now become her life mission. She now runs a nationwide food therapy clinic to help people discover the specific foods that not only taste good but make them feel good, too, while reducing inflammation. She also shares• The role that food sensitivities play in inflammation• What are food sensitivities, and how you can become allergic to even 'healthy' food• The connection between diet, lifestyle, and autoimmune symptoms• Uncovering other causes of inflammation plus so much more...More about our guest:  Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 30, Elizabeth Yarnell has spent the past 20 years studying how to manage autoimmunity naturally as a traditional naturop

In this episode, we welcome Life and Business Coach and author of 'The BEING Zone' and its companion, 'The BEING Journal,' Marla Williams. Marla has transformed her life from one of stress, overwhelm, and illness into a life she loves. She created 'The BEING Zone System' and has changed the lives of over 1200 clients. And, here she shares several of her favorite techniques and tips and strategies for well-being she’s learned along the way, including• How and when to reevaluate time, boundaries, and relationships,• How the neural pathways and the voices in our head interact,• Managing our energy and tools to reset and refresh,• Intention and success strategies plus much more…More about our guest: Marla Williams started her career as an intuitive pioneering visionary who has had tremendous success as a key leader in helping create a culture for a $12 million company and help grow it into a global corporation. Yet dealing with ongoing severe health issues resulting from pushing herself too hard and being in a c