Healthcare From The Soul: Recent Episodes
Erica and Camille
We take you along the healers journey with healthcare professionals who answered the call and embarked on a new adventure away from the conventional realm of medicine and returned in a fresh way to the healing arts.
We talked with Christi Conde, an RN, reiki master, published author and breathwork teacher. She walks us through a breathing exercise to calm the nervous system and walks us through her story of how her book, Messages of Light, came to pass. Come along on this very exciting journey with Christi!
Christi Conde is a Registered Nurse and a Reiki Master with over 25 years of experience in the field of Integrative Wellness. Utilizing both scientific and spiritual methodologies, Christi specializes in Wellness Coaching, Mindfulness, and Stress Relief. Christi is also an empath and a spiritual medium, hence her desire to master stress relief! Along with her private integrative wellness practice, Christi is currently an instructor for the City of El Paso's Employee Wellness Program. Christi also conducts wellness workshops for groups and organizations in the educational system, the medical field, local government, and is featured as a guest in several medical and spiritual podcasts. Christi, a published poet, and staff writer for Cosmic Woman Magazine, infuses her words with the wisdom that comes from her experience with energy and the supernatural. Christi's passion is to help her clients and readers master their own connections with the energy of the divine to not only heal themselves, but to design and create lives filled with magic and miracles.
Today we talk about our nervous systems and the need to reset when we're in overload, survival, flight or fight or just burned out. Camille introduces us to a simple technique that we can use on ourselves and with patients.
This episode is packed full of amazing information and insight from Dr. Davila, Austin Vegan Doc. He talks about his journey from the conventional organization run clinic to his own direct practice. How he realized he needed something different and the gift his father left him with to make a change. All the questions people wonder about when it comes to veganism. Tune into this inspiring episode that will encourage you to think about where you are as a practitioner.
Dr. Davila has been Plant-based since 2013 and utilizes multiple fitness modalities to improve overall health. These lifestyle changes were initially made to improve personal health, but he quickly came to understand the importance they can have on the health of our communities and planet as a whole.
Dr. Davila is Board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. This allows for a unique understanding of how the 6 pillars of health can be addressed and improved on for most patients. This also allows him to treat conventionally if needed to reduce risk of mortality.
Dr. Davila lives locally in Austin with his wife and 2 children, all of which adhere to a plant-based lifestyle. They enjoy time outdoors, exploring new vegan spots, and meeting awesome new people. He is an avid collector of retro video games and consoles.
You can find Dr. Davila at www.atxvegandoc.com, @atxvegandoc on instagram.
Today we talk about work-place or work- associated trauma in healthcare (and other professions), our experiences and some tools and suggestions of what one can do if they're going through the ringer right now.
Disclaimer: We are not experts in the field of trauma and this information is not medical advice. Please consult with a professional if you are experiencing any kind of trauma in the workplace or in life.
Today Camille and Erica talk about the healers hop and what it was like to experience the jump from job to job in search of something more. We talk about the journey and how to explore and discover in a way that serves us.
Come along the healers journey with Vanessa Klugman MD turned recovery coach. We so enjoyed this very warm and nourishing conversation on Healthcare from the Soul.
We talk about her journey out of burnout and addiction into recovery, resilience and reconnection and her guidance and steps to consider. She speaks to the pillar of self-care and looking after ourselves before we can return to the fullfilment of taking care of others. How she practices self-compassion in her life and with her clients and how we can use it as healthcare professionals. We also discuss the importance of boundaries in the workplace.
The answer to the question: Do I want to return to practicing medicine or do I want to do something different? Something we can all relate to when we're in the thick of the healthcare system and forced or decide to take space away.
There are so many pearls in this podcast and speaking with Vanessa is inspiring and truly brings a breath of fresh air to the conversation around healing our healthcare system.
Camille and Erica talk about the journey to getting to Healthcare from the Soul. Our combined healers journey and why we created this podcast. Enjoy the show!
Today we have our very own Erica Benedicto is a clinician turned magician. After two masters, twenty years in healthcare and 14 practicing as a Physician Assistant, she turned her dreams to fulfill a wilder destiny. She talks about her journey, her ups and downs and merry go rounds. We also get to hear what healthcare in the future looks like to her.
Follow her on
ericabenedicto.com
ig @abigmagicallife
In 2018, Siri Chand returned from the most amazing 3 week trip with her husband across the Western states. She had just left her primary care job to pursue her passion for teaching culinary medicine.
Burned out and exhausted from trying to exist in a dysfunctional medical system, she had leveraged her savings to take 6 months off to create her dream career. She arrived home excited to think about the next steps. Life had something different instore.
Listen as Siri Chand shares her healer's journey from being a beloved and admired doctor and collegue to finding her new path in the healing arts.
Want more of Siri Chand
https://drsirichand.com/about
https://www.instagram.com/DoctorSiriChand/
Wendy Schofer, MD is a pediatrician with 20 years of experience which she now dedicates to helping parents of overweight children as a certified life, weight and health coach. She continues to work in urgent care and has found that bringing joy and fun to her clinic allows for a whole new practice and perspective. Wendy invites us to explore our needs as practitioners and ways to fill our own cup first. We had a lot of fun speaking with Wendy and believe you will too!
She's the founder of Family in Focus, where she empowers parents to shift the focus from what's wrong with their child's weight to how the parent can become the leader for lifelong healthy habits for the whole family. She also has a podcast where she talks about 'practice of parenting without all the food and body drama'. Links below!
website: https://www.wendyschofermd.com/
podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/family-in-focus-with-wendy-schofer-md/id1571510508
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendyschofermd
Aubri openly shares her "wounded" healer's journey. Aubri remembers the start of this journey as a young intuitive and empathic child. With intention she listened and allowed messages to come through that led her to a Master's in Occupational Therapy, yoga teacher training, and many other modalities for psychospiritual healing. She found her way in private practice and working in organizations to where she is today, an International Systemic Arts Coach & Mentor.
She weaves systemic and arts based healing together with deep compassion practices, to support helping professionals move towards radical self acceptance and live more embodied, free and empowered lives. She is also an artist, poet, yoga and mindfulness instructor, professional educator and former occupational therapist and university tutor with over 20 years of experience in a variety of therapeutic and psycho spiritual studies.
Aubri's prayer:
"I acknowledge for me a greater truth that we are one, that we are interconnected to all things seen and unseen and acknowledge the miracles and the blessings and the magic that are possible from that knowingness Grounded awareness and Embodied compassion"
For more of Aubri:
aubri.hathaway@me.com
aubrihathaway.com
Today we're talking to Shamika Wallace, a heart-centered healer and RN turned Holistic Wellness Coach. We get to hear when she heard the call for something greater while on a beach in Puerto Rico and the journey that followed. We'll discuss why it was harder for others to release her identity as an RN than it was for her, the definition of holistic health and education, and the four steps to listen to your intuition.
Shamika has been steadily building and growing her personal brand and coaching business with 1-on-1 private coaching, small group coaching, community workshops, and speaking engagements. Her passion for helping others, whether it be as a nurse at the bedside of a patient or as a supportive guide and coach for her clients, is apparent in her heart-centered mission and vision.
Want more of Shamika?
She is at Ladies Living Limitless on Facebook and Instagram and can be reached at thelimitlesslifestylecoach@gmail.com.
Today we talk to Penny Chiasson, a brilliant healer who worked as a nurse anesthesist and believes 'the answer to unlocking all your desires lies within you.' We talk about 'a hidden addiction' that healers often experience and an invitation to shift out of it. She shares her little, medium, and big dreams and how when you're in your 3rd, 4th, 5th decades of life and you make a big change, that is the work, is knowing you are worth it. She talks about the beautiful revolution to shift what 'its in your head' means to us as providers and to our patients/clients.
Penny is the leading expert in reigniting the soulful joy in successful professionals and
entrepreneurs so they can leave work at work and be present and fulfilled in their
personal life. She is a retired nurse anesthetist, board certified hypnotist, and #1
international best selling author. Penny's professional life has been centered around
serving others. Penny has built a referral-based global practice, and she is publicly and
privately recommended by influencers and leaders in the transformational coaching
world.
Want more of Penny?
Penny Chiasson, CRNA, BCH, CPHI
www.pennychiasson.com
https://pennychiasson.com/breakthrough/
Facebook: @PennyChiassonBCH
Instagram: @penny.chiasson
LinkedIn: PennyChiassonBCH