Episodes

On this episode I address the stress and overwhelm associated with having an overcluttered life. Life is so cluttered with so much stuff which can be so very stressful! Learn the 7 simple steps you can take to spring clean your life, in essence, declutter your life, and create space for yourself and relieve all that stress build up. And you can do these steps at any time, in no particular order and not just during the spring. Identify the different categories of spaces in your life, and see ho...

On this episode I address a really common question I hear and that is this, “Can you please help me fall back asleep at night?” Well I have some good news! The answer is absolutely! So do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back asleep? That used to be such an issue for me, too. What not to do: Scroll through your phone or tablet What to do: 5 simple quick steps to help you fall back asleep: 1--adjust your body to find comfortable supportive positioning 2--3...

On this episode we have the inspirational Pat Croce!💡 His diverse entrepreneurial journey includes: ✅Sports Medicine/Physical Therapist/Fitness Trainer with multiple centers ✅Rehab coach, the Philadelphia Flyers ✅Owner & CEO Philadelphia 76ers ✅Commentator, NBA & Olympic Taekwondo ✅Restaurant owner ✅Museum owner ✅Multiple time best selling author ✅Creator, HEALED Community Movement with ACS & 6ABC Past 7 years, he has been on a spiritual journey inward gaining experiential learning including ...

On this episode, I have a really important question for you: How old are you really? Not your chronologic age (how many years you have been on this earth).... but your cellular age that is determined at the genetic level. The cellular age is the actual age of your cells. This is independent of how many years you have been alive on this earth. Your cellular age can be younger, older or exactly your chronologic age and is measured by your telomere length (the protective ends of your chromosomes)....

On this episode we have the amazing Dr. Nneka Unachukwu aka "Dr. Una"! Dr. Una is: ✅ Board Certified Pediatrician ✅ Founder & CEO: Ivy League Pediatrics outside Atlanta, Georgia ✅ Founder & CEO: EntreMD Business School & Community ✅ Podcast Host: EntreMD ✅ Author: The EntreMD Method ✅ Featured: Forbes ✅ Member: Forbes Business Council Her Mission: Help physicians embrace entrepreneurship and build profitable businesses so they have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on their term...

On this episode I break down for you the 4 action choices you have when you feel an unwanted feeling. Have you ever stopped to think about the thing that happens next immediately after you feel an unwanted feeling or emotion? Guess what? Actually 4 different things can happen next… and… they are a choice! I spent most of my earlier life doing 3 of the 4….and those 3 are not so healthy choices...and then I learned there was a much healthier 4th choice: #1: You may react #2: You may resist #3: ...

On this episode I address what to do when you ask yourself the question, "I drove here....how?!" Have you ever driven somewhere, may be to work or home and you realize at some point that you don’t even remember how you got there? If you even stopped at the stop signs and lights? Which path you even took? Admit it! I am admitting it to you….it has definitely happened to me….and it is super scary, right? This is a form of dissociation and you can call this dissociated driving. With dissociation ...

On this episode I share with you what you can do to interrupt and gain control when fear becomes a full on panic attack (this just happened to me while hiking a very high peak the week before recording this episode!) F.E.A.R., can mean 2 things as an acronym, each letter representing a word: #1Fear everything and run or #2 face everything and rise. Fear comes from a thought we are having which causes our feelings and emotions. But even if we are able to identify the thought that is causing ...

On this episode we have the incredibly forward thinking Dr. Christopher Loo with us: ✅Physician ✅Author ✅Podcaster ✅Speaker ✅Blogger ✅Educator He became financially secure at the age of 29 years "young" and became a multimillionaire at age 38. Mission: Help physicians create financial independence early so that they are working because they want to not because they have to. He talks about: ➡️Economic trends that affect the medical profession ➡️Specific factors that affect job security ➡️Step...

On this episode, I teach you about how damaging labels can be. Now when I say labels, you may be thinking about those sticky labels such as on jars. But I want to focus on a different type of label, those are the labels that you create with your words….we can call them “word labels”. And just like the sticky labels, the longer you hold onto word labels, the “stickier they become” and the harder they are to remove. Your brain’s default mechanism is based on primitive thinking of taking short cu...

On this episode, I share with you how to overcome what I call “the garage grumble”! I know what it is like to come home after a crazy day of work, park your car in the garage, feeling beyond stressed, anxious, unsettled, imbalanced, head totally spinning and all the negative grumbling self-talk that came with you on that drive all the way to the garage of your house. And then what happens? You head into your house like the HULK and all of that yuck spills out onto your family. Learn the anat...

On this episode we have the amazing Dr. Mark Soliman! Dr. Soliman is: ✅A board-certified colon and rectal surgeon ✅Medical Director of Colorectal Surgery for the Advent Health Digestive Health and Surgery Institute ✅Department Chairman of Colorectal Surgery at Advent Health in Florida ✅Fellowship director ✅One of the most recognized colorectal surgeons nationwide in robotic colorectal surgical operations ✅Written nearly50 book chapters, scientific abstracts, and manuscripts ✅Co-founder of the ...

There probably isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear these words “I can’t sleep” which includes problems falling asleep and falling back asleep. And it is a vicious cycle because a trigger for anxiety is not being able to sleep! So stress and anxiety block your ability to get a nourishing night’s sleep and then lack of sleep and exhaustion cause you to be anxious and stressed! So we need to turn all of that around. That’s because not only do you not feel well when you are not rested, but s...

On this episode we have the insightful Dr. Haidar Al-Hakim who joins us from "over the pond" in England: ✅Ophthalmologist for > 20 years ✅Ran an ophthalmic charity in Iraq war zone in the 2000's ✅Author of the book Physicians on Fire ✅Became a coach and psychotherapist ✅Host of the Surgical Spirit podcast He shares his incredible journey: Being born in Iraq Family members were imprisoned and executed in Iraq How is family fled Iraq to the UK Returned to Iraq as a "war zone" Iraq & set up opht...

On this episode, I share with you a very common damaging phrase with a big stressful impact. This phrase starts each sentence off with “If only…” It is really common (me included) to start off a sentence saying “if only….” (and then you fill in the blank) over and over again, believing that if things were different, it would change everything and then things would be so much better. Most of the time (if not all of the time), that actually isn't the case. And there is blame and shame involved i...

On this episode I address flexibility since I hear this from people all of the time: “I’m not flexible”!! & so I giggle lovingly and quietly to myself I say “no you are not…but you can be!”…. because just saying “I’m not flexible” makes you not flexible by labeling yourself as such!! You will learn about the 2 main components of flexibility and how it is related to stress: Flexibility in body (which is what people are usually referring to when they say “I’m not flexible”) & Flexibility in mi...

On this episode we will focus on how to relieve that morning stress because I totally know how stressful mornings can be. This is such a universally common problem that I did an episode early on called “morning jitters” to share tools that you can use before getting up while still in bed to help relieve this. If you haven't listened, you can check that out here. So here are 3 key questions that you can ask and answer on a stressful morning to redirect your busy mind, redirect your focus, help y...

On this episode, we have the innovative Dr. Carly Crewe, a physician specializing in women's mental health. She is: ✅Psychotherapist ✅Mom to twin toddlers ✅Modern day nomad (she calls her 31 foot RV home!) ✅CEO of Owner of Eunoia Medical Clinic, a virtual mental health clinic ✅Host of the Mind Over Motherhood Podcast ✅Amazon Best Selling Author, "You are not your Anxiety" Dr. Crewe shares: Her own personal struggle with significant postpartum mental illness mood disorder dominated by anxiety ...

On this episode, which was recorded during the month of February or "Valentine's month", we will focus on the concept of love. You will learn the 5 ways you can love another person based on how that person needs to be loved, looking at it through the eyes of the other person receiving your love, because it may be very different than the way that you need to receive love. I found out about this insightful concept originally described by Gary Chapman in his book "The Five love Love Languages". 5 ...

On this episode you will learn the 3 key questions to ask yourself and answer each evening to decrease night time stress and help you fall asleep and stay asleep! I totally know how stressful evenings can be! Doesn’t it seem like things frequently appear so much worse at night for some reason? Have you ever been upset about something at night as you are getting ready for bed, hopping into bed, lying there, your body is tired and your brain starts it’s nighttime thing …. telling you bad things…n...

On this episode, I share with you one of my favorite go-to tools that I turn to when I feel that I am spinning out of control. Now I know you are saying “wait…you are the StressFreeMD… The Self-Care Doctor….the Doctor’s Doctor….and you always sound calm…and put together…” so if you are thinking that, know that I am really human too with a human brain and therefore I too have moments where I am feeling that I am stressed and anxious and spinning out of control. So I practice what I preach—I am re...

On this episode we have the wonderful Dr. Emmie Strassberg! ✅Board certified: OBGYN ✅Board certified: Maternal Fetal Medicine (complicated and high risk pregnancies) ✅On staff at Shenandoah Valley Maternal Fetal Medicine in VA & WV ✅Certified Life Coach ✅Co-host of the journal club on the Beloved Holistic Podcast ✅Particular interests in patient education, fetal growth curves, and patient and provider approached vaccination during pregnancy She discusses: ☑️How maternal stress during pregnanc...

On this episode I address the elephant in the room and do myth busting around meditation. Over the years, I have had so many questions about this and so many of my physician clients have shared with me their preconceived notions about meditation so I decided to create this podcast episode to address this topic to clear it all up (since you may also be having these same thoughts too I know I did)! Here are the 5 most common meditation myths that I have heard over the years and they all start wit...

On this episode we talk about how damaging making resolutions can be, how resolutions dump you into what I call “the resolution-stress cycle” which set you up for failure, and what you can do instead to turn that all around. A resolution is a finite expectation, a hard and fast goal usually related to something that you want to fix about yourself or your life. Resolutions focus on a specific concrete outcome….an endpoint….requiring perfection….frequently out of reach and unattainable. Research ...