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
298 episodes
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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Soul-Centered Healing With Amy Marohn
A baffling illness. A stark choice. And a return with purpose. When master hypnotist and trans medium Amy Marohn reached the edge of life, she came back with a map for soul-centered healing that meets the body where it actually lives—messy, bri...
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From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian
A poet’s recovery story rarely starts with a bus up Third Avenue and a rule about not writing while high. Ours does. We sit down with classicist and translator Aaron Poochigian to trace a line from an 18-year-old’s epiphany reading Virgil, thro...
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How A Voice-First Mentor Delivers The Right Knowledge At The Right Time with Derek Crager
A smarter path to AI starts with a simple idea: the best help feels like calling a friend who knows your world. We sit down with Derek Krager, founder of Practical AI and creator of Pocket Mentor, to unpack how voice-first guidance can deliver ...
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Chihiro Hozumi and Dr Robert Hoffman Join the Healthy Living Podcast
What happens when you weaken a tumor’s favorite fuel and time chemotherapy to hit at its most vulnerable moment? We sit down at the Anti-Cancer Institute with Dr. Robert Hoffman and Chihiro Hozumi to unpack a practical, evidence-backed model co...
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How A Botanical Nonprofit Uses Nature To Support Mental Health, Veterans, And Local Schools
A garden can be a classroom, a clinic, and a kitchen—often in the same morning. We open the gate to Gardens of Hope, our 501(c)(3) botanical nonprofit in Perris, California, and share a practical update on how nature-based care is helping veter...
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Spirituality Without Dogma: Simple, Practical, Yours with With Ravi Kathuria
What if the most important thing about you can be experienced in the next three minutes—no doctrine, no gatekeepers, no perfect routine? That’s where Ravi takes us: to a definition of spirituality so simple it almost feels subversive—spirituali...
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Unraveling Complex Illness With Dr. Michael Scoma
When medicine gets messy—overlapping symptoms, normal labs, no clear path—most systems fall back on short visits and narrow playbooks. We went the other way. With Dr. Michael Scoma, an infectious disease and immunology specialist, we explore ho...
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From Bobsled Glory to Hyperbaric Hope: William Pearson on TBI, CTE, and Building Access to Healing part 2
What do you do when the “bad days” become your default and medicine only names the symptoms? We sit down with former U.S. bobsledder William Pearson to trace his path from elite performance to a slow, frightening cognitive slide—and the oxygen-...
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From Loss to Sanctuary: Marcia Earhart on faith, forgiveness, and rebuilding a family after unthinkable tragedy
Grief can steal your breath, your sleep, and the story you thought your family would live. Our guest, Marcia Earhart, invites us into the raw center of losing two sons—first in a sudden car accident, then, five years later, to murder—and shows ...
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From Bobsled Crashes to Brain Clarity: William Person’s Fight for CTE Healing and Access
The story starts with a crash—but not the kind you see on TV. Former Team USA bobsledder William Person maps the quiet damage of micro-concussions, relentless G-forces, and years of migraines, vertigo, and sensory overload that slowly stole his...
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From Hive to Hedgerow: Building a Truly Potent Elderberry Syrup with Russell Carter
Most elderberry syrups start with water. Ours starts with a farm. We sit down with Russell Carter of Heartland Elderberry Farms to unpack how a beekeeping family scaled from 50 shrubs to tens of thousands of plants—and why using fresh, fast-fro...
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From Newsroom to Reinvention: Jane Hanson on Confidence, Curiosity, and Communicating Well
Ever feel like everyone’s talking and no one’s hearing a thing? We sat down with Emmy-winning journalist and reinvention coach Jane Hanson to unpack how curiosity, presence, and clear delivery can turn noise into connection—and anxiety into con...
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Trust, Treatment, and a Dawn Hike: Navigating a Surprise Chemo Round
A routine checkup turned into a surprise chemo day—and that pivot forced a decision most of us only meet under pressure: challenge the plan or trust the person who built it. We talk through the exact moment the oncologist said, “We’re doing ano...
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Second Opinions Save Lives with Dr Robert Hoffman
Fear gets loud when cancer enters the room—so we turn up the volume on evidence, agency, and community. Joe shares a raw update from his latest chemo cycle, from brain fog and nausea to the quiet wins of returning strength, and we use that live...
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Building Ryan House: From Grief to a Movement for Pediatric Respite and Palliative Care
A rare diagnosis shattered a young family’s plans—and then reshaped a nation’s approach to caring for medically fragile children. We sit down with Jonathan Cotter to chart the path from his son Ryan’s SMA diagnosis and sleepless nights in Londo...
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From Pain to Possibility: Non-Surgical Spine Care That Works with Dr Brigitte Rozenberg
Back pain doesn’t have to mean a lifetime of injections, “minimally invasive” procedures, and the creeping risk of a second or third surgery. We sit down with Dr. Brigitte Rozenberg, founder and clinical director of Spinatomy Centers, to explor...
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Navigating AWEtism with Science, Community, and Care with Dr Theresa Lyons
What do you do when the experts say “lifelong” and offer little beyond wait-and-see? We sit down with Dr. Theresa Lyons—a Yale-trained computational chemist and mom to a child once diagnosed with profound autism—who chose a different path: tran...
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The Power of Reaching Out: What Sustains Us When We're Barely Holding On
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The PBM Princess: Navigating Healthcare's Financial Maze with Rachel Strauss
The mysterious world behind your healthcare bills just got a whole lot clearer. Rachel Strauss, dubbed the "PBM Princess" and CEO of her eponymous healthcare consulting firm, pulls back the curtain on the complex systems determining what treatm...
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Transforming Health Beyond Menopause with Alicia Jones
The second puberty is real. As women navigate the challenging terrain of perimenopause and menopause, their bodies demand a completely different approach to fitness and nutrition—one that most traditional workout programs fail to address.
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