Ep.#113: Integrated Body Health

We sit down with Pauline Phillips of Integrated Body Health to explore gentle, evidence-informed wellness that starts with food and lifestyle and expands into colon hydrotherapy, biofeedback, and microbiome support. We debunk common myths, share client-led safety practices, and talk about building a mission-driven clinic rooted in trust.

• one-stop integrated wellness model with gentle modalities
• colon hydrotherapy safety, flow rates, and closed system
• food and lifestyle as the first line of support
• biofeedback with SpectroVision and meridian-based matching
• microbiome protocols and practical hydration guidance
• client-led sessions to reduce fear and increase comfort
• small, sustainable changes over quick fixes
• entrepreneurship, faith, and growing a community of practitioners
• respecting every body and empowering through knowledge
• where to find Integrated Body Health online
www.integratedbodyhealth.com

Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_00 0:00

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Susanna Hodges.

SPEAKER_03 0:12

Welcome. And with me is Pauline Phillips. She's the owner of Integrated Body Health in Obaleika. Welcome, Pauline. Thank you. Good to be here. Tell me a little bit about Integrated Body Health. What do you do there?

SPEAKER_02 0:27

We do a lot of different things. We um I named it Integrated because I knew I wanted a lot of different practitioners here so that we could serve the community with kind of a one-stop shop. And so we do have a colon hydrotherapy, we have a detox footpath, we have massage therapy, we have an urgent care pediatric nurse practitioner, we have a naturopath, and now we have a phlebotomist. And um the we have added some modalities also that I do, and we do the spectrovision scan, which is a um a biofeedback mechanism that um is very gives very individualized um care. And we do the uh bio uh the biome balance um protocol, and that really looks at the gut biome and how it can support it. And we do three visits for that, and we just added um something for people with food sensitivities called Emotox.

Pauline’s Path From Hospice To Wellness

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Okay, y'all do a lot there, absolutely. Yeah, well, tell me a little bit about your journey into uh your into your business. What led you to start Integrated Body Health?

SPEAKER_02 1:51

I was a hospice nurse for 20 years, and I saw a lot of people um just really suffer with constipation and unhealthy habits. And so um I went to a lady's business in Birmingham and I did a scan um a little bit like my Spectravision, and she had colon hydrotherapy there, and I'd never heard of it. And so I um did it for a couple years, and the places that I went to were not really spa-like, they really didn't have a nice atmosphere for such a personal service, and I thought, you know, it'd be really nice to have it in a spa environment. And and I thought about getting on the wellness side um of things instead of being on the nursing side, and so I was really looking for something more healthy related where I could use my nursing background as far as my knowledge base, but not be in the typical nursing um role.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Right, right. And so there's so much we can do, you know, to benefit ourselves with the natural path.

Philosophy: Food And Lifestyle First

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Right. And realizing that, you know, I'm the one that needs to be in tune to my body, and I'm the one that needs to be understanding what's going on instead of just letting people recommend things and then just doing it to just realize, wait a minute, you know, why am I taking that? And I think our society is now in a pill for every ill, um, even in the naturopathic dimension. And so our basis is totally um food and lifestyle basis. That's what we base everything on, and then we kind of bloom uh from there. Okay.

Ten Years In And Common Misconceptions

SPEAKER_03 3:43

Well, you've been doing this for how long? How long have you been in the nursing? How long?

SPEAKER_01 3:49

This is our 10th year. Oh, good. Good. It's our 10th anniversary. Oh, that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

So you've been doing this a long time. I bet you've come across some misconceptions people have about uh some of the services you provide there. What are some of the things that you've come across that that people think that aren't true?

Colon Hydrotherapy Safety And Process

Client-Led Care And Comfort

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Well, it was really uh kind of funny. Yesterday I had a client and she said, I was so totally nervous. I had myself totally upset, and I didn't need to be. I'm just fine, and this is a great, you know, therapy. And um, she kind of tickled herself, you know, at why she was so worried. But there are some things online, there are some videos that kind of look scary, or um also I think there's some things on uh some other websites that say that we can puncture the colon and we can't. I only put a speculum two inches into the reptile vault. I never enter the colon with anything hard. The only thing that goes in the colon is the warm filtered water, and so um that just can't happen with colon therapy. Um the other thing is they say that there might be an electrolyte imbalance, and we only um have the client on with the water going in and out for 45 minutes, and they know that they've tested that and there's no electrolyte imbalance. If I kept them on for two or three hours, of course, there would be, but we don't do that, and um and it's not an enema really, it's in that area, but the the enema that you like if you went to the ER or you know did it yourself with one of those old bags, right? It would be um at a flow rate of three pounds per square inch flow rate of water. I do 0.25 to 0.5, so I'm like a six to an eighth of the flow rate of what you would call a normal enema, and that allows the body to soak in the water like an internal shower. Right. It's less it's it's less invasive, it's a little more helpful. Yeah, it's less shocking that's the body. You know, um, and it's it's all driven by the client, you know. When you tell me you're full, then we go to release and it's it's client-driven. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:12

Well, um, tell us a little bit about you, Pauline. What do you like to do for fun when you're not working at integrated body health?

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Well, I love plants and I love dirt. So if I could be, I'd be outside in the garden or digging or weeding, or I just love being outside. I learned that from my dad, who took me to all sorts of places, and we went to national parks, and he taught me to never leave an imprint of where you've been, and so I just learned to treasure um nature, and so I feel very at home there, and I just can let my mind wander and and uh and relax, so that's what I love to do when I'm not here, but I do love being here.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

Yes, yes, I enjoy my clients, and you are you have you're married and you have children, so and do you have any grandchildren?

Family, Grandkids, And Joy

SPEAKER_02 7:05

I do. I have four uh grandsons that live across the street from me. Oh, wonderful Oliver is six, and then I have um three under three and a half. Um, so they're real busy, and um, and we love being with them. And then my daughter who um lives in Chattanooga, she um she definitely um enjoys having two girls. So they're very different households. The girls, yeah. But we really enjoy them, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Now, part of the reason I do this podcast is to encourage people to kind of follow their, you know, entrepreneur dreams. And usually when you do that, there are going to be obstacles and hardships you have to overcome when you start a business. So tell me a little bit about some of the hardships, whether it was personal or in your business that you overcame that made you better or your business better.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Well, I think being a hospice nurse, I faced a lot of challenges, but it did teach me how to meet a stranger and help them to be relaxed and comfortable, which is very important with colon hydrotherapy or the spectra vision or any any personal service because it is personal and um we want the client to be at ease, and it's it's just really important. Um I also um was really picked on for being slender and petite when I was small, and it really um had a toll on me and that I um thought I was so small nobody would ever want to marry me. I really had a self-devaluation going on, yeah. And um, and but I learned that it was important what God thought of me, and somebody just um real lightly said, you know, precious things come in small packages.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Yeah.

Individualized Care And New Modalities

SPEAKER_02 8:59

And I thought about, you know, when you get a diamond ring, it's in a small package. And so I think that helped me um with that, but it also has helped me realize that um every person deserves to be treated with respect, um, no matter what their body looks like, what their age is, um, what their shape of their body is, none of that matters. And my goal is to make people feel comfortable in their own skin, and you know, knowing that knowledge empowers them. And that's why we like the closed system colon hydrotherapy, because I am in the room with you and you can ask me nutrition questions or lifestyle questions, and um you know, you really can get your money's worth. And I was thinking about the other day, you know, you can pay to get an IV to get hydrated, but with colon hydrotherapy, you have two things that happen for the same price. You get a clean colon, and you did you do get total body hydration, and that really makes you feel better, right? It's kind of exciting, but of course, you have challenges with business. Um, anybody that wants to have a life of walking by faith, yeah, it's a great business.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Yeah, it's a great way to um to just live day by day. Yeah. Um, and without the support of my husband, you know, I might have starved to death the first two years. But um had a great, great massage therapist with me for five years, and um, she really, you know, helped pay the rent. And um it kind of makes you hone in on what do I really want to do, what do I really want to provide? Because I probably would have made more money if I had just been by myself and not had the bigger the bigger building. But I was encouraged to do that and bring other people in. And I'm really glad I did.

SPEAKER_03 11:00

Um you have more services you can offer people.

SpectroVision, Meridians, And Supplements

SPEAKER_02 11:03

Right, right. And I've met more people that are therapists in the area that have moved on and gotten their own building and and expanded. So it's it's been a good thing overall. But gif, always follow your dreams. I I waited five years on it, and I'm kind of glad I did because we moved from Birmingham to Opalika. Okay. Um, and that's when I said, look, you know, it's either it's either now or never.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Right, yeah. You just gotta you just gotta do it, right? You just right, right. I I learned uh heard the phrase uh done is better than perfect, right? You just you just gotta do it. Yeah, you don't wait to get everything and all your ducks in a row, you just dive in.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Yeah, yeah, and just take one bite at a time because you're gonna face maybe a big elephant. And um you just have to take it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:53

Well, what's one thing you wish people knew about integrated body health that they that you'd like for them to know?

Gentle Changes And Bioavailable Herbs

How To Connect And Final Thanks

SPEAKER_02 12:00

Um well, I just we just give total individualized care. I think people want to be listened to today, and and I think that's a very important role is to have that one-on-one relationship with your therapist and to be able to tell somebody what you're stressed about. And that's why we added these different modalities. I was uh doing colon hydrotherapy, I was doing the detox foot bath, and my clients were telling me about other issues that I couldn't do anything about, and I really had a burden about that, and so somebody um shared the spectrovision with me, and I really um, you know, now we have protocols for stress, we do the microbiome, we do the food sensitivities, and we use the spectrovision technology, which is um really uh kind of a Ferrari on uh it's a biofeedback on steroids, sort of. It's just a really um deep um technology that listens into the nervous system, and um and so we can figure out what the body's talking about and what it's concerned about and where it's putting that energy. Um, and then we suggest supplements because it resonates with your body because we're checking meridian points. I don't just pull off the shelf and say, Oh, you know, you look like you need this, so I'm gonna give you that, and it might not resonate, you know, with you at all. So when we test those meridian points to see if your body resonates with it, um, then we can balance your body energetically. And when the body is balanced and not losing energy or sort of stuck because of stress, um it can heal itself.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

Yeah, it allows it to do what it knows how to do, which is heal.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Right, what it was meant to do. And I think today our body is being uh I I think ever since COVID, especially, that people are now afraid of things, afraid of their body, um, autoimmune. We're afraid our body's attacking it, and we just don't have that philosophy here, right? We just have a philosophy of let's find out what the body's talking about and let's let's go that route. And um the a genius um invented the spectrovision and he has a computer program that goes with it, and it just it's kind of like reading your mail because it it goes in and says, You're worried about this, you're concerned about that, you know. And um, and that's when we can kind of have a moment where we go, you know, I really am worried about that, and I really do want to do something about that. But um, but like I said, we start with nutrition, not in a bad way. We don't want anybody to feel judged or like, you know, oh, you're doing all these bad things. We want you to not be overwhelmed. We want you to maybe take one or two things that you can change and be aware of. Um small changes that turn into really beneficial. Yeah, some people don't know what kind of water to even drink. Yeah. So we we really start with the basics and just go from there. So, and the the products I use with the SpectroVision, they're fractionated herbs. He puts them on a plate, he blossoms them with um with a frequency, then he puts them back into a liquid and does some things in there, and they're just really beautiful because they're bioavailable, they go into the lymph, into the bloodstream, and they bypass the liver and the digestion. Okay, and so they're just really bioabsorbable, so it's exciting.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Well, Pauline, how can people find out more about you?

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Well, we just got back on Facebook because we've been hacked during the uh I don't know COVID event, and someone spent$500 of mine on uh very defamatory um ads to my Lord Jesus, and um I couldn't get anybody on Facebook to help me, they didn't have a staff or something, but we're back on Facebook. Good. Um, it's integrated body health LLC. The old one might pop up with the logo, but we're the LLC one. Um because we can't see your post if you go to the old one. And um we, you know, we're at integrated and it um it's I-n-t-e without an R, gradedbodyhealth.com. And you can find us there. We have just redone our website, and um it's a really exciting website. There's a lot of information on there. I don't want to overwhelm people, but I do want to empower them through knowledge.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

All right. Well, thank you so much, Pauline, for joining for joining me today. I've really enjoyed learning about you and about your business, integrated body help.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Thank you so much.

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SPEAKER_00 17:17

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