The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Savannah
What face mapping is and her journey that led her to develop this fascinating modality 
She cracked her sacrum and sternum and was having 5 migraines a week and how she resolved it
Your face speaks to what is happening in the body
What different things in the face represent in other parts of the body 
The pelvic floor tension connection for many women and how this also shows up in the face
How the jaw can often be connected to hip and pelvis imbalance (it was for me)
Pain is our friend, numb is our enemy
Resources Mentioned
Savannah's website and her Instagram
Face tools and face programs from Savannah
Free face mapping tool
Book: It Didn't Start With You
LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.
Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order.

Episode Highlights With Savannah
What fascia is and where it is in the body
Fascia is the web of connective tissue that covers the entire body and is an incredible electrical substance 
It's made up of collagen fibers and is very hydration dependent
Fascia has more nerve endings than the skin!
How fascia gets stuck and how age and hormones affect it 
Ways to ideally support the fascia for its best function 
The key to fascia is speed and why movement is so important - the slower you go, the more you engage the nervous system 
Why we can’t force the fascia to do anything and how to help it “melt” instead
Your fascia responds to your emotional state! 
Fascia has over 250 million nerve endings, which is over 25% more than the skin.
Pain is a language that we need to learn to understand and when pain can be a teacher
Emotions and pain are really only around for about 12 seconds if we are present with them
Stuck fascia and aging and how this might be the most powerful non-invasive solution we have
How to release fascia and remobilize areas that have been stuck 
You can mobilize fascia in as little as ten minutes a day!
Fascia might be the interface between the physical body and the emotional/energetic body
Resources Mentioned
Savannah's website and her Instagram
Face tools and face programs from Savannah
Free face mapping tool
Jill Miller's Fascia work on Instagram
Lose Your Mind: The Path to Creative Invincibility
Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal
Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order.

Episode Highlights With David
What sound healing is and why he’s sensitive around the term healing 
His invitation through his music is for people to feel deeply 
Science and spirituality and how they can meet in the realm of sound 
The universe is full of things that vibrate, and while humans can only see and hear a small part of the visible and audible spectrum, we can feel more
His albums are two hour explorations of non-ordinary states of consciousness through sound
How sound can impact the nervous system and induce non-ordinary states of consciousness with our internal neurotransmitters 
What he inadvertently discovered about the nervous system through data of his listeners 
Hypnogogic states- the states between sleep and wakefulness and how sound can help us enter them
Resources Mentioned
The Harmonic series images
David's Linktree
David's website
LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.
BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama and use code wellnessmama for 20% off!

Episode Highlights With David
Where the name The Human Experience came from and how he realized that creativity came through him and not from him
His incredible journey with creativity and why the world doesn’t innately reward creatives 
How experiences of guilt, blame, or shame kill our creativity as children and how to remember and tune back into it 
Ways to access the creative spirit and how we all can in some form 
Facing our edges without needing to be perfect and leaning into the creative spirit 
Accept and allow and release guilt, blame, and shame 
The two parts of his creative process: the mind and the no mind 
Mind= toolbox, no mind = feeling not thinking 
“We don’t play music, music plays us.” - David Block
Creativity as an intrinsically spiritual process, like birthing a child
Resources Mentioned
David's website
David's Linktree
Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.
LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Katie
Why chronic fight-or-flight is not an emotional problem but a physiological state driven by your biology
How the nervous system decides whether you’re safe or unsafe — often without your conscious awareness
The specific ways stress, trauma, overwhelm, and modern life keep the body stuck in survival mode
Why you can’t heal digestion, hormones, immunity, energy, or inflammation until your body feels safe
How your brain, vagus nerve, mitochondria, and hormones respond when your body is in a threat state
The difference between “danger physiology” and “safety physiology” — and how each shapes your symptoms
Why mindset alone can’t regulate your nervous system (but the right habits can)
The real role of light, minerals, hydration, movement, and sleep in telling your body it’s safe
How to recognize when your body is signaling overwhelm vs. when it’s ready for expansion
Daily practices that help shift your system from fight-or-flight into repair, digestion, fertility, and resilience
How rewriting internal language (“I am sick” ? “I am healing”) sends safety cues at a cellular level
Why expanding your capacity is more effective than trying to “eliminate stress”
Practical steps to build a physiology of safety — one that supports long-term health, joy, and adaptability
Resources Mentioned
Jaspr air scrubber
Water filters I love and recommend 
Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.
Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order.