Autoimmune Hour On Life Interrupted Radio With Sharon Sayler

We welcome back Shari Alyse, author of the best-selling book, ‘Love Yourself Happy‘ and co-founder of The Wellness Universe. From her lifetime of learning to love herself fully after childhood sexual abuse and other traumas Shari shares with us how to challenge a negative ‘headspace-story’ plus:• How to overcome your inner critic
• Why it’s important to be okay with what comes up
• How to learn to ask for what you need
• Why it’s vital to surrender and trust in the now
Plus so much more….More about Shari Alyse:
Besides being a best-selling author of the book Love Yourself Happy, she is a motivational speaker, self-love coach, and hosts a radio and online TV show called The J-Spot. Shari helps women and men discover their joy again by reconnecting to themselves through the practice of self-love. She is the Co-Founder of The Wellness Universe, a community of holistic practitioners, coaches, and thought leaders whose focus is to help create happy, healthy, and whole people. The Wellness Universe is the bridge th

In this fun and uplifting interview, Pamela Sylvan, the Mojo Maker, shares how to keep our mojo moving during these times. She also shares how to effectively use this time to re-evaluate, amplify our opportunities, and pivot our life and well-being to the positive:• How to connect the ‘opportunities’ that life is presenting to come out even better, more centered and feeling great;• Why finding community even when sheltering-in-place is essential;• Simple tips for using this time to discover if you are living the life you want to live.Plus, easy actions to embrace “full-throttle-living” regardless of your current state.About our Guest: Pamela Sylvan, a busy on-the-go consultant, and Mojo Maker, who helps women who are ready to spiral up to a place of outstanding effectiveness in their business and personal lives. Her signature keynote, ‘Make & Mold Your Life-Changing Decision – 4 Steps to Being There’, is a cornerstone piece for anyone wanting to unequivocally stand in their place of power while making the

Back by popular demand, this week’s guest, Valerie Sheppard, the author of the award-winning, #1 international best-seller ‘Living Happy to Be ME!’ book shares how to stay connected to our self and others plus:• How to take charge of your well-being• Discover the difference between “powering-through,” resistance, and accepting • What to do when feelings of isolation and aloneness show up• How our choice of words shapes our outcomes and much more…Along with being an award-winning author, Valerie Sheppard is an inspirational keynote speaker, university lecturer, and a certified Laughter Yoga instructor. In our chat she shares her passion and insights for life-mastery, including those she has gained during her on-going recovery from a catastrophic-hemorrhagic stroke, her Happy to Be ME!© process, and her successful class called Living 101: Being Happy and Whole. Learn more about Valerie, and her fantastic work at http://HappytoBeME.net and be sure to check out her Heaping Helpings of Happiness Community at https

It seems like everywhere these days that we are confronted with things we don’t understand, new challenges, different expectations... and I’ve been noticing I’m experiencing grief — grief for myself, others, and even globally. Pain everywhere, and that’s unknown territory for most of us. Today, grief expert Yvonne Heath shares how to ‘just show up’ and find more heart, happiness, and humor because life is already serious enough. She also shares:• How to acknowledge and allow yours and others feelings, thoughts and emotions,• Ways to support yourself and others by just showing up, • How to be okay with someone going through grief including yourself• How to develop random acts of kindness to change pain and other challenges into joy plus so much more. More about our guest: Yvonne Heath is married to her best friend Geordie, and has three amazing children. She has been a registered nurse since 1988, working in ten different hospitals in the US and Canada in many areas, including emergency, intensive care, chemo

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™: 6 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 women live their 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: Con

This week’s guest, Elle Russ, is the author of 'The Paleo Thyroid Solution,' which has helped thousands of people reclaim their health. Speaking from her personal experience, as a thyroid thriver now, she shares with us numerous insights and tips for healing your thyroid including• Why is the thyroid so often overlooked? • What the symptoms are and what tests do I need• The questions I need to ask my doctor about my thyroid• How diets like Paleo and API work to heal health issuesplus so much more…. More about our guest: Elle's most recent book - Confident As Fu*k  is also a best-seller and she's a TV/Film writer. As if that’s not enough, Elle is the host of the top-rated Primal Blueprint Podcast, started by New York Times best-selling author and founder of Primal Kitchen Foods, Mark Sisson. The podcast has over 18 million lifetime downloads with a global audience reaching from Saudi Arabia to South America, Australia, Canada, and Europe. Learn more at www.ElleRuss.comListen to this fast-paced, fact-filled exp

Our guest, Danielle Turco, is a Certified Health and Life Coach and YTT 200 Yoga Instructor. She was diagnosed with Lupus 20 years ago. For years, she tried every holistic treatment she could get my hands on. She did her best to get through the days and often suffered silently. In August of 2017, she had the ‘mother-of-all-flares.”  After much research and trial and error, she found her diet held the answers. She removed all inflammatory foods, and within a few weeks, she says she “felt amazing, and my energy level was through the roof.” Now, two years later, her lupus is in remission. In this episode, she shares• What Lupus is• Why autoimmune diseases come in clusters• Yoga and autoimmune• Living with the Keto and API diet and inflammatory foods • How to be successful with an elimination diet, plus much more....Danielle also shares, “I have no symptoms, and blood work shows no inflammatory markers.  My doctor cannot confirm or deny that this way of life has anything to do with my remission but told me not to

Bev Martin the founder of InnerActive, joins us for a fun, free-ranging chat about using our intuition, language skills, and creativity to understand ourselves and others at a deeper level. Intuition can be a powerful tool when you know how to use it and can lead to valuable ideas and insights. Bev shows us• How to combine intuition with insight to create a balanced life-view • Ways to make better decisions and profound connections with others• What is Clean Language and the importance of deep listeningplus so much more...About our Guest: Bev Martin, founder of InnerActive, 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.comListen to the empowering chat Friday, June 5th at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and videocast at www.UnderstandingAutoimm

life outcomes even in times of crisis and chaos. Often with a long-term medical condition, it’s easy to feel as if you have lost control over your health, body, and life, including your rights. Regaining your sense of control by successfully advocating for yourself and others can give you back hope and self-esteem — two powerful factors in recovery. Kristal shares how to use patient advocacy skills in many areas of your life plus she shares:• The importance of self-advocacy and self-care, especially now, • Ways to build a community online and offline, • How to rewire your brain to focus on the positive regardless of what’s going on around youplus so much more...About our Guest: Kristal Kent is an Army Veteran, Fibromyalgia Advocate, Veteran Advocate, and Patient Leader Expert. With 20 years of Social Service experience, Kristal’s advocacy work focuses on educating the Fibromyalgia Community on their illness, how to best advocate for their healthcare needs, and apply for Medical Disability Benefits. As a Veter

Having gone through her own health struggles, this week’s guest Julie Michelson is now a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, who specializes in autoimmunity. We share a great chat and a laugh or two about life after diagnosis. We share our thoughts on living a fulfilled life and that you don’t have to be the 'stats.'  Julie also shares• Three easy steps to optimize your health• What is the elimination diet and how a specific-to-you nutrition plan is critical to wellness• How to create an individualized plan and much more... About our Guest: Julie Michelson knows first-hand what it’s like to have health struggles. Now, she helps others skip the hardship of figuring ‘it’ out on their own and start living joyful lives of true wellness. Julie works internationally with clients in her virtual coaching business, Julie Michelson Coaching, LLC. She has created Inspired Living with Autoimmunity™ to help clients make the changes necessary to reduce inflamma

Learn the key strategies you need to gain optimal health during difficult times with functional medicine expert, Dr. Jenny Tufenkian N.D. in this episode Dr. Jenny shares the essential health foundations for optimal immune function and energy plus • Ways to diminish your susceptibility • Best practices for home care and when to seek professional help• Quick techniques to shift from anxiety, overwhelm and despair to joy, peace and calm, and much more... About our Guest: Dr. Jenny Tufenkian has been practicing Naturopathic Medicine for over 20 years. She is a board-certified primary care physician and has been a clinical faculty instructor at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She is the owner of Enjoy Full Health Clinic. You can learn more about Dr. Jenny's essential work at www.drjennytufenkian.com/And, she would love to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy. To join in her no-cost 3-day learning session, she shared check out the website: https://www.drjennytufenkian.com/get-heal

We welcome back Beth Donnelly Feller along with her husband Doug Feller as they share the benefits of Qi Gong. Qi Gong can have a calming effect on our physical, mental, and emotional systems by increasing the flow of energy throughout the body. I find it rejuvenating and calming. It has helped me refocus my worries during this time of quarantine. Beth and Doug share with us several breathing techniques to achieve more helpful states plus• Body movements to keep us physically active in a gentle and safe manner• Ways to reduce stress and create a balanced outlook.• How to develop a feeling of relaxation, focus, and flow plus much more.About our guests: Beth Donnelly Feller collaborates with her husband Doug Feller, are Certified Satori Method QiGong Instructors, and teach the ancient life force energy practice for health and wellness on Saturdays at their home dojo, and now online. They feel that their purpose in life is to be an “uplifter of the human spirit”… and find that all of their activities, work, and

Finding humor is more important than ever with the pandemic, so we are sharing an encore presentation of “When Finding Your Funny Bone Helps You Feel Better.” Enjoy!While most of living with a chronic condition isn’t funny, sometimes I just have to laugh at the absurdity of it all — from the embarrassment of my a** hanging out the back of a hospital gown to my body sometimes having a mind of its own…Recently, I’ve been working on finding my funny bone and enjoying the well-being benefits of laughter with the award-winning stand-up comedian and comedy-coach Alicia Dattner. I like to say she has helped me maintain my ‘sanity through laughter’ at times… In this week’s episode, Alicia shares tips on using humor and laughter to create a positive mindset and well-being, plus• How humor and laughter are positive disruptions to the status quo,
• How fun can be part of your spiritual path,
• Overcoming the illusion of what is a reality,
• Simple ways to exercise your laughter muscle,
and so much more…More about Alic

We welcome back a favorite expert, Sarah Peyton, to share her wisdom on how we can create feelings of safety and stability in times of chaos. Sarah is an international speaker and facilitator, whose passion for weaving together neuroscience knowledge and experiences of healing to unify our brains and bodies. In this episode, she shares her expertise and tips including ways to move past self-criticism and second-guessing into self-encouragement, warmth, and personal tenderness plus an understanding of how to• Spot and avoid emotional contagions • Develop your natural self-warmth and self-compassion• Integrate the brain’s left and right hemispheres for more grounded living and action• Use the power of resonant language to support healing and change, and so much more...About our Guest: Sarah Peyton makes Interpersonal Neurobiology research available for our embodied brains to use in living at peace with ourselves. Funny, touching, and filled with personal stories and up-to-date research on our nervous systems an

We welcome back a favorite guest, Valerie Sheppard, the author of the #1 best-seller Living Happy to Be ME! In this episode, Valerie shares with us her remarkable story of recovery from a catastrophic-hemorrhagic stroke as well as, her journey that she says challenged her to, “to double down on the things that I teach.” Her deep commitment to the healing power of happiness shines through in this inspiring chat! Just some of what Valerie will share with us is: How laughter and humor helped her heal How to ‘improv’ your way through life, How to use the power of “Yes” to enrich any experience, And how to respond to fear with a smile…Plus so much more…This is a not to be missed chat, she always shares several ‘A-ha! Moments!’ Valerie Sheppard is a number one best-selling author, catastrophic-stroke survivor, inspirational keynote speaker, university lecturer, and certified Laughter Yoga instructor. Valerie is truly multi-faceted. Her passion is life-mastery, which she teaches featuring her “4-Step Hap

An encore presentation. With all the crazy things going around us these days, I thought it would be a perfect time to hear Dan Millman’s interview again and his message of strength, willpower and resilience. I’ve been a fan of Dan Millman, author of ‘Way of the Peaceful Warrior’ plus sixteen other books for decades. Dan was 20 years old, and a world-class gymnast, when he shattered his right leg in a motorcycle accident. His healing became a spiritual awakening as he transformed from an ego-driven, Olympic-caliber athlete into a ‘peaceful warrior.’Dan’s work continues to evolve, to meet the needs of a changing world, and his teachings have now found form as the ‘Peaceful Warrior’s Way.’In this episode, Dan shares with us why your thoughts and feelings are not reality plus• Six essential words to keep top of mind,
• Three ways to optimize your potential,
• The real purpose of meditation
and so much more…More about Dan Millman: Dan is a former world champion athlete, university coach, and college professor. His

It’s crazy times we are going through. Even as adults, we are struggling to make sense of the quickly changing landscape. Many parents are wondering how to talk to their children in a way that’s reassuring when we need reassuring our self. Our guest Janet Allison is the Founder of Boys Alive! and the co-host of the ON BOYS Parenting Podcast. With more than 20 years of experience coaching parents and mentoring teachers, Janet loves sharing proven tools and strategies such as • How to keep a bigger perspective • What to say and not say depending on age• Explaining immune-compromised and other confusing topicsplus so much more.Listen to this timely and necessary interview first on March 27th at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/kids and later in podcast and video.The information provided on UnderstandingAutoimmune.com, Life InterruptedRadio.com, and The Autoimmune Hour is for educational purposes only.

Our guest, Dr. Terry Wahls shares with us her latest findings from the newly updated and expanded bestselling book 'The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles.' Dr. Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials.  In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. In this episode, Dr. Wahls shares with us:• What The Wahls Protocol is and how it restored her heath• Easy ways to implement The Protocol regardless of your diagnosis • Plus her views on Coron

What if your mindfulness, practice, your spirituality focused more on “we” than “me?” What would change? In the episode, we welcome Patricia Albere. Best-selling author, founder, and creator of Evolutionary Relationships and Mutual Awakening. A practice-based on consciously creating a connection between two or more people who mutually commit to explore and develop higher states of perception and awareness. Patricia shares:How to find and transform any committed relationship into a dynamic engine for mutual evolution.The eight activating principles of Mutual AwakeningInsights into how this practice enhances your feelings of connection, compassion, and kindness, plus so much more...More about our guest: Patricia Albere is at ground zero of an evolutionary stream of spiritual awakening. Just as meditation can be an opening to a personal awakening, Albere originated the Mutual Awakening Practice – a 21st-century practice that empowers us to enter into new dimensions of relating and expanding consciousness togethe

Our guest, Laurie Seymour, M.A., is a 2x #1 best-selling author, host of the Wisdom Talk Radio podcast, speaker, and Founder/CEO of The Baca Institute. Twenty years ago, she received the stewardship of a unique esoteric technology that accelerates the process of innovation and creation in individuals and groups. In this episode, Laurie shares with us how to tap into the creation/innovation part of us to optimize our well-being and activate our healing opportunities plus:• Easy techniques to help expand your conscious, creative awareness, • What happens when you feel things like "my body betrayed me,"• How to safely step outside your comfort zone and so much more...More About Our Guest: Laurie Seymour's work is particularly valuable for professional innovators: thought leaders, product designers, company founders, because her work accelerates the time from ideation to implementation and revenue while also opening the innovator to new levels of confidence, peace, and satisfaction. Learn more at www.thebacainst