The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Katie
Why magnesium is the master mineral your body burns through fastest
The real reason magnesium powers 700+ reactions in the body
How magnesium activates ATP and mitochondrial energy
Why stress, pregnancy, and modern life create chronic depletion
The difference between forms like glycinate, citrate, malate, threonate, taurate, etc.
Why I personally use Magnesium Breakthrough (7 forms)
How topical magnesium oils, lotions, and baths work & when to use them
Symptoms of magnesium deficiency (that don’t look like deficiency!)
How magnesium interacts with sodium, potassium, calcium, and hormones
How magnesium supports sleep, digestion, blood sugar & nervous system calm
Why magnesium is a primary safety signal for the body
Resources Mentioned
Magnesium Breakthrough supplement (use code wellnessmama for 15% off)
Magnesium lotion
Magnesium oil
Hiya
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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

Episode Highlights With Frank 
Frank's personal journey from journalist to healer
Why manifesting is his biggest pet peeve word 
Manifesting was the most used word in Webster’s dictionary in 2024
How spirituality is getting hijacked and what to watch for
What his energy clearing is and how it works
Real-time example of an energy clearing live on the podcast 
A real time energy clearing for all mothers and the feminine 
Herb recommendation for all mothers listening (check with your doctor)
An emotion cleared from the energy of motherhood: love unrecieved 
Allergy that came up in the clearing: an allergy to the idea of success for moms
The final emotion cleared for motherhood: worthlessness
Resources Mentioned
Frank Elaridi's website
Awaken the Healer Within course - use code MAMA for 10% off
A Course in Miracles online free workbook
The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness by Dr. Bradley Nelson
Tulsi tea
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 Frank
What is happening in the brain when we have negative thoughts
Pain is experienced in the body, and the mind is what creates suffering 
One of his favorite lessons from A Course in Miracles: Love is real, everything else is an illusion. "You need not defend against illusion.”
Common categories of negative thoughts and how to identify them: mind filter, jumping to conclusions, mind reading, and fortune telling 
What to do if you catch yourself in these negative thought patterns
A simple three step process for questioning negative thoughts 
How to learn to question our own stories and assumptions about things
What “A Course in Miracles” is and how this profoundly impacted him (link below)
Pleasure is of the body and happiness is what you are
Pleasure always has a cause, happiness is of essence
Resources Mentioned
Frank Elaridi's website
Awaken the Healer Within course - use code MAMA for 10% off
A Course in Miracles online free workbook 
Awareness: Conversations with the Masters by Anthony de Mello
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!
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 sodium is the most misunderstood mineral
How sodium runs your body’s electrical system, nerves, and muscles
The surprising connection between sodium and safety signals
Why many health-conscious women are quietly under-sodium-ed
Symptoms of low sodium that look like stress or anxiety
How sodium interacts with potassium and magnesium
Why sodium needs to come from mineral-rich salts, not processed foods
Microplastics in sea salt and better alternatives
How to increase sodium safely in a real-food lifestyle
Practical ways to hydrate with electrolytes without overdoing water
Why sodium is essential for sauna, exercise, pregnancy, and stress recovery
Resources Mentioned
Himalayan salt tablets
LMNT electrolyte drinks
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!
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 Paul
What horizontal relationships are and why they matter
How vertical dynamics create shame and resistance
The nervous system connection in parenting and how this can help us be more connected and effective in relationship with our children 
How Freud and Richard Adler differed on the topic of horizontal relationships and trauma
Practical examples for shifting into horizontal parenting
The flaw with superior positions in relationships and how this robs us of our confidence and autonomy 
“Self sacrifice” and how it's a nobler term for self abandonment and how we program this into our kids
How the vertical side uses extreme circumstances to argue for vertical relationships
Why connection > control in raising autonomous adults
How repair builds lifelong trust
How this approach makes you a better leader everywhere else in your life
Utility verticality vs relational verticality 
Reputation and the puppet strings it has on us as human beings and how this comes into play in parenting
It isn’t that the strong survive.. It is the connected that survive 
Punishment: So much of punishment is laziness on the parents part and the fear of reputation
It isn’t about just changing the behavior but addressing the underlying reason and capacity 
Forgiveness isn’t the letting go of what happened but the softening of the blame 
There are over 400 unique characteristics that will emerge in your child regardless of how you parent them
How this can create space for a both/and instead of an either/or in parenting 
Guilt perpetuated by reputation and verticality 
After age 7, our role as a parent is to be a safe place for a child's exploration of themselves
Resources Mentioned
Paul's website and his Instagram
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk 
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Paul Levine
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art by Gene Wilder
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
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!