Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
A podcast about practices to promote healthy lives featuring experts, businesses, and clients: we gather to share our stories about success, failure, exploration, and so much more. Our subscription episodes feature some personal and vulnerable, real-life stories that are sensitive to some of the general public.
Episodes
319 episodes
Finding Joy In Dementia Care with Marilyn Raichle
What if the story we tell about dementia is upside down? Jill sits down with author and advocate Marilyn Raichle to trace her path from reluctant caregiver to devoted care partner for her mother, Jean—a journey sparked by a single painting clas...
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From Feeding Tube To Freedom with Sara Kelsey
A teenage diagnosis of achalasia set Sara on a path she never asked for—esophageal surgery, years of nausea and vomiting, and a later diagnosis of gastroparesis that made eating unpredictable and exhausting. Add the weight of a “permanent” feed...
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Healing The Past Through Yoga with Rachel Krentzman
What if the cure you’re seeking is less about fixing a body part and more about meeting your whole self with honesty and skill? That’s the thread we follow with Rachel Krentzman—yoga therapist, physical therapist, and certified Hakomi psychothe...
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Reading The Signs: Purpose In Motionn with Bishop Kevin Foreman
Some moments feel like they were made just for you. That’s where we begin: with signs that don’t demand worship, but invite movement. Joe shares a mysterious “divine download” memory and Bishop Kevin reframes it as a signal that did its job. Fr...
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He Chose To Live, Found Purpose, And Built A Safer Way To Hire Contractors
A whispered “he’s tombstone” in a silent hospital hallway became the pivot point. John Stewart Hill chose to stay, and that decision reshaped his life—and the way homeowners find trustworthy help. What began with a weak heart and a yellow legal...
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Scans, Choices, And Taking Charge with Dr Robert Hoffman
A “good scan” can feel like a finish line, but we dig into why it’s often just the start of smarter decisions. Joe walks through a favorable MRI, an attentive ENT visit, and the practical next move: get a CT to clarify what’s scar, what’s necro...
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From Diagnosis To Direction: Cara Lockwood On Taking Back Control
A routine mammogram, a life-altering call, and a decision that would shape everything that followed: who holds the wheel. Author Cara Lockwood joins us to talk about facing HER2-positive breast cancer, reclaiming agency, and transforming a frig...
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Becoming Who You’re Meant To Be In Your Later Years with Susanne Eden
What if aging isn’t decline but the door to becoming who you were meant to be? That’s the heart of our conversation with educator and author Suzanne Eden, who at 87 shares a candid, hard-won perspective on health, purpose, and wholeness. We unp...
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Springsteen, Storytelling, And Starting Again with Anne Abel
A stadium full of strangers rose to their feet, Bruce Springsteen smiled into the camera, and Ann Abel felt something she hadn’t in years: possibility. What followed wasn’t a fairy tale; it was a series of small, stubborn yeses that moved her f...
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Rewriting Attention: Trauma, Faith, And The Power Of One Focus with Ron Souers
Ever tried to outrun your brain? Ron Souers did—until speed and stress nearly cost him his job. Our conversation traces that moment of reckoning to a new framework for ADHD: not a defect to hide, but a different wiring to understand, support, a...
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Grow A Grateful Mind: From Soil To Soul part 1
Ever notice how a single thought can steer your whole day? We take that idea seriously and put it to work with two powerful tools: gratitude and time in the garden. Joe shares why focusing on what’s working—rather than what’s wrong—can shift yo...
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From Volunteer Dreams To Sustainable Nonprofit: Building Gardens Of Hope That Truly Heal
A desert hillside turns brown each summer, but tucked inside it is a living stream, layered shade houses, and a nonprofit garden built to calm the nervous system. We walk you through how Gardens of Hope grew from a family project into a communi...
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From Hair Pulling To Healing: Hypnotherapy, BFRBs, And Recovery with Kisha Reynolds
The urge feels harmless at first: a tiny bump on the scalp, a rough edge on the skin, a moment of boredom. Then comes the pull or the pick, the trance-like focus, the fleeting relief—and the shame that follows. We invited certified clinical hyp...
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From Triggers To Triumph: A Practical Guide To Change with Joe Grumbine
Change doesn’t start with willpower; it starts with honesty. Joe opens up about the habits that held him back, from tobacco cravings to the quiet compromises that sneak in during hard seasons, and lays out a practical path to break negative cyc...
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Own Your Health: From Toxic Load To Longevity with Eddie Stone
Feeling stuck between wellness hype and real results? We sat down with Eddie Stone, founder and CEO of Touchstone Essentials, to cut through the noise and focus on what actually moves the needle: reducing daily toxic load and fueling the body w...
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From Overparenting To Underachieving: A Memoir Of Schizoid Personality And Survival with Blair Sorrel
What if a childhood built on criticism and distance teaches your nervous system to disappear? We sit with author and advocate Blair Sorell to uncover how schizoid personality disorder can form as a learned defense—and how clarity, therapy, and ...
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How Darkness, Routine, And Science Rebuild Your Sleep with Lori Oliver
Sleepless nights don’t just steal your energy; they tax your memory, your mood, and the way every system in your body repairs itself. We sit down with Lori Oliver, a former executive who turned years of burnout into a mission to make better sle...
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How A Psychologist Turns Hardship Into Strength You Can Use Today with Dr Kate Lund
Resilience shouldn’t live on a poster. It should live in your day. We sat down with Dr. Kate Lund—psychologist, TEDx speaker, and host of The Optimized Mind—to turn big ideas about mental health into tools you’ll actually use. From childhood su...
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A Peer-Reviewed Paper Turned One Patient’s Cancer Reversal Into Evidence with Dr Robert Hoffman
A tumor melting on camera, a radiology scan to match, and a paper that moved from submission to PubMed faster than we expected—this is the story of how careful documentation turned a personal win into shared evidence. We walk through the case r...
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Healing Takes Work, Not Wishes with Richard McCuen
Healing doesn’t arrive on command; it arrives when faith and effort finally meet. Joe sits down with longtime friend and frequent guest Richard McCuen for a candid, grounded conversation about moving from crisis to momentum—through chemo, scans...
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From Isolation To Connection: Healing Addiction’s Hidden Roots with Severn Lang part 2
A single fridge door can tell the truth you’ve been avoiding. When our guest boxed up their home to break a cycle of compulsive shopping, a shelf of condiments sparked an unexpected reckoning with grief, a father’s dry alcoholism, and the way a...
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What If Recovery Starts With Being Heard? with Kate MIhevc Edwards
What if your “knee problem” isn’t really a knee problem at all? We sit down with Dr. Kate Mihevc Edwards, a physical therapist and board-certified orthopedic specialist who practices running medicine, to unpack how true recovery starts when we ...
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From Isolation To Connection: Healing Addiction’s Hidden Roots with Severn Lang part 1
Ever feel like the thing that “helps” you is the very thing that keeps you alone? That’s where Severn Lang lived for years—sipping ease, swallowing pain, and drifting further from the people who could save him. What follows is a rare, generous ...
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From Shock To Strength wirh Ravi Kathuria. part 1
A single sentence can split a life in two. When Joe got the call confirming squamous cell carcinoma, everything he’d been building—his nonprofit healing garden, a growing podcast, a community of practitioners—had to be measured against one urge...
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