Wish Radio: Straight Talk For Womens Health

Lurking in autumn-drenched corners of our forest, popping up overnight with fairytale delight are our spore-born fungal friends. Or are they? Reishi, chaga, chanterelle, morel and even the humble puffball, wild mushrooms are becoming increasingly popular as powerful healing foods. But in a world that associates fungus with infection and even death, how do we turn our eyes to the ground and learn to forage fungus safely? Here to introduce us to the magical world of mycellium is Dwight Thornton, who as founder of North American’s first and only mushroom hunting school is no stranger to those colorful caps. Dwight, thank you for being here to get a little wild with us today. In this interview, you'll learn: How chaga mushroom tea saved Dwight's life and cured him of several diseases. Which mushrooms you should absolutely avoid! Some of the key signs to spot poisonous mushrooms in the wild. The most important things to understand about harvesting mushrooms in the wild. How you can learn a TONNE about mushrooms i

You can access the full transcript for this interview here. The interview was originally conducted by Alison Ramsay and Nadine Artemis as part of our Back to the Wild Summit. Visit "Natural Lifestyle" category at WISHRadio.com to see the other calls in this series. Beauty, we all have it and we all want more of it. And instead of it being your wildly vibrant authentic self shining out to the world in a rainbow of wellness, it has become a commodity. Something stolen, packaged up in pretty plastic pots laden with petrochemicals and synthetic perfumes, priced ridiculously high and pimped back to us with the subversive promises of love, desirability and even freedom and fame. An all round toxic experience. But I challenge you to turn your eyes from those rows upon rows of so-called beauty products which fill the cosmetic counters of our department stores, and think of a field of wildflowers or a magnolia tree in full blossom or the intricate life that is nestled alongside a sparkly stream. Which evokes more bea

This interview was conducted with Alison Ramsay and Arthur Haines as part of our Back to the Wild Summit. You can find the rest of the interviews in this series under "Natural Lifestyle" category at WISHRadio.com. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.” This is a quote from 1854 by a prominent Native American Chief, Chief Seattle, that I found on the website of my next guest. It illustrates the interconnection of all life on this planet and makes note of the fact that as a species humans are not excluded from this beautiful and intricate web. Every choice we make, every dollar we spend, everything we consume has an effect on this web, on each other and on ourselves. No exceptions. Our health as a species reflects the health of our home, our planet. The divorce from nature that has occurred in our distracted modern lives has acted as a kind of blindfold to this interconnection. If we are to restore our health and vitality we must also res

The clock ticks, the bell rings and academia beckons. You head to your lecture hall packed with students fulfilling their worldly duty of higher education. Stuffy fluorescent lit rooms, Wi-Fi, projectors, notes and lecturers dishing out the newest nuggets of wisdom. This is university. But what if there was a different kind of scholastic adventure to be had? One without pencils, papers, textbooks or tutorials. A university where the wilderness is your classroom, the forest your cafeteria and the teacher - the wild nature that is you. Here to talk with us about what happens when we take our learning outside of the classroom is Kenton Whitman, adventure, mindfulness and re-wilding instructor and founder of ReWild University. Kenton, thank you so much for being here to get a little wild with us. In this interview you'll learn: How spending time in Nature puts you back in touch with yourself! Why Kenton has devoted his life to ReWilding. How modern living interferes with our parenting skills. The best way to get

I had three friends in one week call with questions about how to handle difficult questions. Their situations ranged from mildly annoying to immediately life-threatening. No matter what situation you're in, this episode of Soapbox Talks has the answer! Tune in and turn up the volume. Sometimes getting the right information can make a big difference! You can download the CheatSheet for this lesson here! There will be a Youtube video coming out soon to accompany this podcast. I'll update this page when the link is available. Here's What You'll Learn In This Episode: The single most important factor that makes anyone feel alive (and actually BE alive). The problem of backing down or giving up when you encounter difficult people, that will make an even bigger problem later.  The first and most important thing to know about why people are "difficult." How to decide which people should be your friends and deserve your trust, and which you should create stronger boundaries with. The key to feeling confident in almo

Healthy living heroine and juice cleansing guru, Ritamarie Loscalzo joins us for a conversation about how, why, when and what to do in order to successfully juice cleanse. There's a fair amount of controversy on whether or not it's safe to do a short juice cleanse, and this interview dives in deep to discuss the details. You'll love Ritamarie's warm nature and comprehensive knowledge of detox. Having worked with her for many years, and hundreds of hours, she's a woman of integrity who takes her patient's well-being to heart. Dive in and discover why juice cleansing might just be the perfect next step for you, too! You can learn more about Dr. Ritamarie here: http://www.drritamarie.com/    

Meet Joe Cross. He picked up a juicer, traveled around the United States and changed the lives of people wherever he went sharing the story of how a juice cleanse helped him lose weight, get off medications and put an end to his chronic health conditions. Joe is as juicy a character as he is an ambassador for health, and you'll love this refreshing and vibrant interview with the man who went from fat, sick and nearly dead, to smokin' hot and healthy in a very short time! Learn more about Joe Cross here. Learn more about our Gentle Juice Cleanse here.

Perusing the aisles of our supermarkets we find everything from plastic-wrapped, Styrofoam-cupped, microwavable, freeze dried, GMO noodle soup seasoned with MSG to pretty packaged, artificially flavored, colored and preserved food-like products to tantalize our taste buds and tempt our need to consume. We fork over our hard-earned dollars and take home these colorful shiny packets of pasta, breads, biscuits, butters, pickles, pies and jams and eat them with the intention of nourishing our bodies and fueling our daily lives. So if we are what we eat, then what happens if instead we pluck a wild and living plant from the forest or munch a few pink petals from an edible flower, or gorge our gobs on berry bushes dripping with sweet and sour jewels, packed with nutrients and vitality, complete with sensual satisfaction. Do we then begin to embody this wild vitality or blush of beauty or sensuality? If there is one man in this world who really understands the secret world of foraging, it’s Fergus Drennan, also know

You have an ache, a pain, a cough, cold, the flu, fatigue, brain fog, a bite, sores, pimples, cuts, bruises, heartburn and headache. So you reach for your acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, antacids, antibiotics, Accutane, codeine and hydrocortisone to help ease the ache, the burn, the sting, the swelling, and a dose of something to help you sleep through all the discomfort. Although allopathic medication does have its place, food can also be your medicine. Wild plant food in particular, boasts powerful medicinal qualities when you learn how to use them correctly. Here to talk to us about the wonders of wild herbal medicine and how the plants around your house can be alchemized into healing tinctures, poultices, balms, juices and teas, is the wild and weedy woman, Michelle Summer Fike. Michelle, thank you so much for being here to get a little wild with us today. You can access the complete transcript to this interview with Alison Ramsay and Michelle Summer Fike (now Wolf) here. In this call, you'll learn:

"We are all on one great survival trip trying to figure out how to meet our needs for shelter, fire, water and food, preferably without destroying the planet in the process. That is really the bottom line. How can we sustainably meet our needs for shelter, fire, water and food without consuming all the earth’s resources, without altering the climate and without being enslaved to a meaningless job until we die?" This is a quote from my next guest’s speech, The New Era of Self Sufficiency, shared at the Alaska Bioneer's Conference. He is the author of a wealth of books on wilderness survival skills, sustainable living, sustainable building, botany and relating to the natural world. He founded a Green University for young adults and an Outdoor Wilderness Living School for children. Just by spending an evening indulging in his website, hollowtop. com, I became even more knowledgeable, more inspired and more impressed by this man’s passion and commitment to really living and really living in harmony with nature an

This interview was conducted by Alison Ramsay as part of our Back to the Wild Summit on Sustainable Living We are all driven to become the best version of ourselves.  And to do this we think we need to try out the latest and greatest fad diets, fashions, products, superfoods and even pharmaceutical drugs that promise to enhance our health and happiness. As we surf the net on our iPhones, iPads and MacBooks looking for the answers to love, life and an end to loneliness, deep in our DNA and just outside our door, quietly ever present is an answer to health, vitality and interconnectedness.   Time and time again the beauty, wonder and power of nature inspires and heals us physically and spiritually.   It teaches inner calm, perspective and brings us a feeling of well-being. It speaks to the wild nature that is inside of us.  But in a world where technology reigns and the dollar is king, in a consumer driven world where nature cannot be bought and bottled and sold, so is therefore largely forgotten, we experience

Let's talk about your lady parts and pieces. You know your nose and toes are there to be adored and adorned. You brush your hair and floss your teeth and do those great butt-lifting exercises you learned in the 80s. You smother your skin with lotions and potions and love to take long, hot baths. And it's easy to take care of what you can see. But inside your skin, a puzzle of parts you're not really sure about, are there pumping and thumping and throbbing and bobbing about. And if you knew a bit more about them, you could dramatically improve your overall health, energy and well-being for the long haul. Perched beneath your pelvis, is a croissant-shaped treasure you likely know little about. Here to help you get acquainted with the power of your pelvic floor, is Dr. Belisa Vranich.

Listen in as we fill a few of the missing pieces and touch on anything that was missed, as well as more of Nadine's own wisdom for oral and overall health and well-being.

Listen in as Nadine Artemis and Tera discuss the key presenters in the TOOTH Summit and share a little about what to expect and watch for in this enlightening series of tooth truth-telling interviews with the world's leading daredevil dentists and renegade health heroes!

You curl your hair, spritz perfume, and prepare yourself, just in case today might be the day. You scope out the possibilities in the local produce section of your favorite health food store. You keep your eyes up, and hopeful, at the hardware store, the shopping mall, your friend’s birthday party, and while walking down the street, and though you do not mean for your optimism to wane, admittedly you sometimes wonder if maybe you’re just not meant to find “The One”--that special companion to walk by your side in love and life. Well before you hang up your glass slippers, sit back, and soak in the warmth and wisdom of one of the world’s foremost experts in matters of the heart. Katherine Woodward Thomas is here to share what it takes to call in the one you’ve been looking for. Katherine, thank you so much for being here with us, and welcome to WISH. Here's What You'll Discover In This Call: How to know when to take your friends' advice and when to ignore it The kind of support you really need to make your dre

He leaves crumbs on the counter when he makes his toast, tracks mud into the house with his dirty boots, stutters when he’s nervous and snores if he eats peanut butter before bed. But you fidget with your fork, interrupt when you’re excited and stack your socks in perfect piles. What if the things that bug you, get your goat and secretly annoy you about the one you love, could also be their most endearing quirks and characteristics. If there’s any woman knows the world of love, finding it, keeping it and happily ever after, it’s Arielle Ford, and she’s here to talk to us about the wonders of “wabi sabi love.” In This Call You'll Discover: why a Japanese art for accentuating the imperfect can help you save and improve your relationship the inspiration you need to turn irritation and annoyance into heart-warming appreciation for others. beautiful stories that will make you melt your crusty considerations and learn to see the beauty in the rough. when "wabi sabi love" doesn't work--the conditions that shouldn't

If you’ve ever felt too fat, too poor, too tired, too busy, too beaten down, shaken up or tossed inside out, then you know suffering. You may have noticed that when you stopped to blame your bank account balance, ex-boyfriend and the size of your thighs, things didn’t really change much. If, in spite of all you kind thoughts, good deeds and the very best of intentions, you still find yourself suffering, then lend an ear, pull out a pen and paper, and get ready to do ‘the work.                                

[Communication Summit] Dr. Marilyn Wedge: Pills Are Not For Preschoolers Before you let the well-ironed white coats of the world pull out their prescription pad with the promise of more compliance and cooperation in the classroom, how about you take the time to have a conversation with your child to find out what’s going on? How does she feel? What’s she concerned about?   Was there anything she didn’t understand in class that might be causing her to feel distracted? When were things going well? What happened when it changed? When classrooms are over-crammed and moms are on the run chasing the eternal to list, some kids just aren’t getting the care in the classroom or the attention at home that they need. Here to help make sense of what’s really going on for some of our children and prove that pills are not for preschoolers, is Dr. Marilyn Wedge!   Here's Just Some of What You'll Learn in this Call: The number one most important question to ask children who are having behaviour difficulties. Alternatives to

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When you stop to consider the things you need to prioritize for your health, thoughts of broccoli stalks and long walks in the park may come to mind. You brush and floss your teeth, take Vitamin C and eat kale and to prevail against the bacterial and viral powers that be. But what if someone told that love and forgiveness are the real fountain of youth and the secret to boosting your immunity. And what if that someone was a medical doctor who graduated with Honors. Don’t let his credentials fool you. Because while he did graduate with honours from med school and retired as a paediatric surgeon, Dr. Bernie Seigel isn’t here to talk about your annual medical checkup or your white blood cell count. He comes from the heart of Brooklyn and joins us today to talk about love, compassion, kindness and the miracles and medical breakthroughs that have come about because of them. Bernie, thank you so much for being here with us and welcome to wish. How do you inspire people to be willing to overcome difficulties and no