2d ago

Facing Dementia: The Pressure to Be Well

**What if the way we see our health and wellbeing is influenced by the very challenges we are trying to overcome?** In Episode 11 of the Facing Dementia Series, we explore how we often believe that the perspective we are working from is clear, accurate, and complete. But what if our viewpoint is influenced by how we are feeling, the emotions we are experiencing, or the systems within our body that are challenged? And what if changing our perspective could open possibilities we never imagined? Laurin Wittig returns to her podcast-host role and interviews Dr. Michelle Greenwell about the discoveries that have emerged throughout this series. What began as conversations about dementia prevention has evolved into something much bigger: **How do we move beyond trying to prevent or heal illness and begin living with a wellness frame of mind?** Through a BioEnergetic Wellness lens, Michelle and Laurin explore how our perspective shapes our choices, how awareness can reveal new possibilities, and why wellness is about more than simply doing all the things we believe we should be doing. 💚 **Perspective sits at the seat of change.** ### ✨ In this episode, we explore: - How the *Facing Dementia* series has evolved from fear and prevention toward awareness, intuition, and vitality - Why our physical, mental, and emotional experiences can influence how we interpret the world - The difference between healing from illness and proactively cultivating wellness - How wellness practices can become another source of pressure and self-judgment - Why awareness is different from constantly monitoring ourselves - How the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula supports goal setting, intention, awareness, activation, community, and intuition - How movement, creativity, and new experiences can help us discover different perspectives - What it means to realize our potential and live with greater curiosity, connection, and joy Perhaps one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves is: **"Am I organizing my life around what I fear, or around the possibilities I want to create?"** ### 🍵 Tea, Intention, and a New Perspective Our tea conversation is a little more informal this time! Michelle enjoys **Huggin The Holidays** from the Cape Breton Tea Company, highlighting the spiritual essence of cinnamon and cloves. Cinnamon invites us to consider warmth, transformation, and the possibilities that emerge through change. Cloves offer a symbolic reminder of comfort, nurturing, and creating space for ourselves. 🍵 Find your perfect tea blend and discover how daily intentions can become part of your wellness journey at: https://greenwellcenter.com/ ### 🌿 Discover BioEnergetic Wellness If this conversation inspires you to explore your own wellness journey, Michelle offers several opportunities to learn through the Greenwell Center for Holistic Health. **Touch for Health®** introduces practical ways to explore movement, muscle responses, awareness, and goal setting. https://greenwellcenter.com/touch-for-health/ **Movement Mastery Program** explores movement literacy, helping participants recognize the cues their bodies share and discover new movement possibilities for brain, body, and emotional wellbeing. **Movement and Music — On Demand** combines movement, intuitive music, intention, and creativity. Prerecorded sessions and supplemental learning materials allow you to explore at your own pace. https://greenwellcenter.com/product/movement-and-music-2/ You can also learn with Michelle through live online and in-person programs, including Tai Chi classes, workshops, and special events. 🌿 Explore current opportunities: https://greenwellcenter.com/product-category/events/ ### 💚 Your Invitation This week, consider a simple question: **"What might I discover if I looked at this situation from a different perspective?"** You don't need to have all the answers. Sometimes awareness, a small movement, a meaningful conversation, or a moment of curiosity is enough to begin seeing something new. 🎧 Join us for Episode 11 of *Facing Dementia* as Laurin and Michelle explore the transformational possibilities of reframing wellness. 💬 **We'd love to hear from you:** Have you ever experienced a moment when changing your perspective completely changed what was possible? Share your experience in the comments! Please like, subscribe, and share this conversation with someone who might appreciate a new perspective on living well. **Wellness is not simply something we hope to achieve in the future. It is something we can explore, nurture, and experience today.** #FacingDementia #BioEnergeticWellness #DrMichelleGreenwell #LaurinWittig #PerspectiveMatters #WellnessThroughAwareness #LivingWithVitality #TouchForHealth #MovementMastery #MovementAndMusic #HolisticWellness #HealthyAging #MindBodyConnection #CapeBretonTeaCompany #GreenwellCenter Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Oct 7

Facing Dementia: From "Should" to Joy

Facing Dementia – Episode 10 | When the Funk Hits: From “Should” to Joy, Surrender & Flow What happens when you know all the things you’re “supposed” to be doing for your wellbeing…but you just don’t want to do them? In Episode 10 of Facing Dementia, Dr. Michelle Greenwell and Laurin Wittig explore what happens when the funk hits—and whether our first response always needs to be getting ourselves out of it. For Laurin, an important realization emerged when she became tired of continually focusing on what was “good for my brain” and then feeling disappointed in herself when she didn’t follow through. What if wellness doesn’t have to be driven by fear, pressure, or another list of things we should be doing? What if we begin instead with what genuinely brings us joy, the challenges we enjoy, the experiences we look forward to, and the activities we naturally want to return to? 🌿 Nature played an unexpected role in Laurin’s discovery. In the quiet of the trees, she noticed something surprising: she wasn’t able to connect with her familiar “friends” in nature in the way she normally could. That awareness helped her recognize how much energy she had been putting into controlling the physical “dark cloud” hanging over her—and how disconnected she had become from her spiritual life in the process. And then something shifted. As Laurin surrendered rather than pushed, an answer emerged in a completely different part of her life: her writing. While working on her next book, she suddenly realized that her characters were in the wrong relationships. By rearranging them, the story opened. That discovery gives us a wonderful question to explore: What if we don’t always need to try harder? Sometimes we may need to pause long enough to notice what needs to be reorganized. In this conversation, we explore: ✨ The early signs that a “funk” may be arriving ✨ Whether we should head it off—or sometimes follow it with curiosity ✨ How wellness “shoulds” can create guilt and pressure ✨ The difference between forcing ourselves and finding what genuinely draws us forward ✨ Nature, spirituality, and recognizing when we've become disconnected ✨ Why surrender can sometimes reveal what effort cannot ✨ Laurin’s surprising breakthrough with her new book ✨ Awareness, intuition, and reorganization through a BioEnergetic Wellness lens ✨ Finding our way from control toward joy, connection, and flow 🍵 Featured Tea: Butterscotch Delight This conversation is accompanied by the new Butterscotch Delight from the Cape Breton Tea Company—a comforting blend combining black tea and green tea with honeybush, blueberry, apple, pomegranate, sunflower, cornflower, calendula, jasmine and rose petals, cinnamon, and natural flavours. Black and green tea bring different qualities to the same cup—depth and freshness, grounding and possibility, comfort and movement. A beautiful combination for a conversation about finding our way through the funk. Our affirmation: “May my spirit be deeply comforted, my heart gently opened, and my days rich with connection.” Perhaps that's the invitation of this episode. Instead of immediately asking: “How do I get out of this?” try asking: “What is this helping me notice?” And maybe the next step isn't more willpower. Maybe something simply needs to move. 🌿 Continue your wellness journey at the Greenwell Center. Explore BioEnergetic Wellness resources, movement programs, tea rituals, workshops, and more, and download the Top 8 Stress Releasers. Visit the Greenwell Center 🍵 Discover the wellness tea blends from the Cape Breton Tea Company: Cape Breton Tea Company 💬 We’d love to hear from you: When the funk hits, do you immediately try to get out of it—or have you ever discovered something important by listening to it first? If this conversation resonates with you, please like, subscribe, comment, and share Facing Dementia with someone who might appreciate the conversation. Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Sep 28

Messages from the Past to the Future

What if the future we’re building is also building us? Two years after her first visit to Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell, dancer, artist, and creator Kristen Mangione — The Dance Alchemist — returns for a beautiful exploration of creativity, movement, presence, and what happens when the work we create begins speaking back to us. Our conversation was inspired by Kristen’s recent Artist’s Letters, where she shares the discoveries emerging from her own creative process rather than simply reporting what she has done or promoting what comes next. Together, we explore some wonderfully expansive questions: ✨ What happens when we revisit something we created years ago and discover it still has something to teach us? ✨ Can the future we are creating actually participate in shaping who we become? ✨ What happens when the clock becomes irrelevant and we become completely absorbed in an experience? ✨ What is the difference between **doing** and truly **being**? ✨ Can an old story remain part of our history without continuing to organize our future? ✨ What changes when movement becomes ceremony — art that is not simply observed, but inhabited? Michelle also brings these ideas into conversation with BioEnergetic Wellness (BEW) and its person-led, future-oriented approach to wellbeing. Rather than prescribing what someone should become, what might happen when we create the conditions for awareness, possibility, organization, and new experiences to emerge? 🫖 Our CommuniTEA Pause: 1897 GenerosiTEA “Open your heart to hope and optimism, for your resilience and pure generosity inspires others.” We highlight currant and apple as we consider resilience, possibility, nourishment, creativity, and the seeds of a future that may already be present within what we are creating today. Kristen also invites us into the beautiful idea that perhaps we don't always need more time. Perhaps we need a different relationship with time — moments when attention finds a home, the clock becomes irrelevant, and we are fully inside the life we are living. And we leave you with an invitation: What have you already created that might be waiting for you to return and listen again? Don't return to critique it. Return with curiosity. It may have something to say to the person you have become. Connect with Kristen Mangione www.givemedance.com IG: @thedancealchemist FB: Kristen Mangione LinkedIn: Kristen Mangione Subscribe and join us for more conversations exploring movement, creativity, awareness, BioEnergetic Wellness, and the possibilities that emerge when we become active participants in our own wellbeing. #BeWell #KristenMangione #DanceAlchemy #BioEnergeticWellness #CreativeProcess #EmbodiedMovement #MovementAsMedicine #CreativeLiving #MindfulMovement #HumanFlourishing #GenerosiTEA #CommuniTEA Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Sep 23

Who Holds the Authority for Healing?

Who holds the authority for healing? Is it the therapist, the method, the diagnosis, the research—or the person actually living the experience? In this thought-provoking episode of Be Well with Michelle Greenwell, writer and conceptual artist Mark A. Michaels joins Michelle to explore some of the assumptions underlying traditional psychotherapy, contemporary psychedelic therapy, and our broader healing culture. Drawing from his forthcoming preprint, Binaries, Multitudes, and Beyond, Mark examines authority, expertise, personal agency, and what can happen when individuals are encouraged to engage critically and creatively with their own therapeutic experiences. Together, Michelle and Mark explore an important distinction: expertise does not necessarily have to mean authority. Can we value the knowledge of therapists, physicians, researchers, and facilitators while also honouring the lived experience and observations of the individual? Can healing language sometimes encourage us to continually search for something that needs fixing? And what becomes possible when we move beyond being a recipient of care and become an active participant in our own wellbeing? They also explore psychedelic therapy and vulnerability, creativity as another way of knowing, the surprising value of humour and irreverence, and one particularly important question: If we remove the expert from the centre of the healing process, what belongs in the centre instead? 🫖 CommuniTEA Pause: SoulTEA Harbour Michelle opens the conversation with SoulTEA Harbour from the Cape Breton Tea Company, highlighting anise and cardamom and the intention: “Balance and Flow is possible when we open to be present for our true heart's desires. Come home to your heart.” The harbour becomes a metaphor for the entire conversation: perhaps expertise can offer shelter, knowledge, perspective, and help with navigation—without determining our destination. During the episode, you’ll also be invited into simple experiential pauses to consider: What do I believe needs fixing? Where did I learn that? Whose definition of “better” am I using? What does my heart actually desire? And if nobody else were interpreting my experience for me, what would I notice? This isn't a conversation about rejecting expertise. It is an invitation to become curious about our relationship with it—and to consider how observation, choice, creativity, intuition, and personal participation can become part of our everyday experience of wellbeing. To reach Mark please go to: https://markamichaels.com/ Or locate him on IG: https://www.instagram.com/markamichaels/ 🎙️ Be Well with Michelle Greenwell Exploring possibilities for wellbeing through curiosity, awareness, creativity, and active participation. #BeWell #MichelleGreenwell #MarkAMichaels #Healing #PersonalAgency #Psychotherapy #PsychedelicTherapy #Wellbeing #SelfAwareness #Creativity #BioEnergeticWellness #SoulTEAHarbour Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Aug 14

Emotions and Healing: Circulation and Joy

What if joy isn't something we need to chase, but something we learn to circulate? In our final episode of Emotions & Healing, Dr. Michelle Greenwell is joined by Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, and Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, as we complete our journey through the Five Elements with a deeper exploration of Fire: the Circulation Sex and Triple Warmer meridians. These systems invite us to consider how we circulate energy, sustain vitality, regulate stress, and remain connected with joy, passion, and purpose. The Circulation Sex Meridian is associated with cellular nourishment and renewal, reproductive health, circulation, and emotional connection. Triple Warmer brings our attention to heat regulation, respiration, digestion, elimination, glandular and hormonal balance, and the stress response. Together, Kate, Denise, and Michelle explore what happens when stress becomes our normal state. How can fatigue, burnout, movement challenges, or “masked pain” disconnect us from joy? And what simple tools can help us restore balance? We also explore the muscle relationships associated with these meridians, including the hips, inner thighs, and lower legs, and consider their roles in stability, coordination, grounding, and propulsion. Tea with Intentions For our final tea ritual, we share Liberty Wine and Power Pack from the Cape Breton Tea Company. Sea Holly represents strength and resilience, inviting inner stability and the ability to stand confidently in our truth and vitality. Cardamom brings warmth and activation, awakening the senses and inviting joy and openness. Together, they represent balanced activation: not burnout, but sustained vitality and joy. Our affirmation: “The Fire Element supports processing, clearing, and enhancing the most important aspects of joyful living.” As you sip, ask yourself: Where does joy flow freely in my life? Where has stress or fatigue muted it? What would help me reconnect with vitality? This final episode reminds us that joy is not something we chase. It is something we circulate. As we complete Emotions & Healing, consider what you have discovered about your emotions, the patterns you now recognize, and the tools you are ready to bring into daily life. Explore courses with Denise through Muscle Tuners International, connect with Kate and her books, and continue learning with Michelle and Denise through the Movement Mastery Program. Thank you for joining us on this journey. May you continue to listen deeply, move with intention, and live well. #EmotionsAndHealing #FireElement #FiveElementTheory #CirculationSexMeridian #TripleWarmer #Joy #Vitality #TouchForHealth #BioEnergeticWellness #TeaWithIntentions #LibertyWine #PowerPack #MovementMasteryProgram #KateMontgomery #DeniseCambiotti Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Aug 14

Emotions and Healing: Anger to Inspiration

What if anger isn't something we need to suppress, but a signal that something is blocked, misaligned, or ready to change? In Episode 6 of Emotions & Healing, Dr. Michelle Greenwell is joined by Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, and Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, to explore the Wood Element, Liver and Gall Bladder meridians, and the emotions of anger, resentment, and frustration. Wood represents growth, expansion, vision, planning, decision-making, and forward movement. When balanced, we can feel clear, motivated, decisive, and flexible. When challenged, we may experience irritability, impulsive decisions, indecision, stagnation, or the feeling that we simply cannot move forward. Kate and Denise explore how these emotions can influence our posture, movement, muscle responses, performance, recovery, and the choices we make. We also look at the Anterior Deltoid, Popliteus, Pectoralis Sternal, and Rhomboid muscle relationships through Touch for Health®. Tea with Intentions: Releasing the Warrior Our featured Cape Breton Tea Company blend is Releasing the Warrior, chosen to support the Wood Element and the transformation of anger into purposeful action. Dandelion represents resilience and release, inviting us to clear stored frustration and stagnant energy. Juniper Berry represents protection and clarity, helping us refine our direction, release emotional heaviness, and move forward with intention. Together, they remind us that strength is not about force. It is about clarity, direction, and release. As you sip, consider: Where am I holding tension? Where am I pushing too hard—or not moving at all? The Wood Element reminds us that growth requires both strength and flexibility. When we listen to anger rather than simply react to it, we can begin transforming frustration into movement, resentment into clarity, and anger into purposeful direction. Continue your exploration through the Movement Mastery Program under Wellness Training at GreenwellCenter.com, join us for the Artfilled Wellness Retreat, or develop practical skills through Touch for Health® Level 1. Like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone navigating frustration, change, or an important decision. Join us next for our final conversation exploring Ministerial Fire, Circulation, and Triple Warmer. #EmotionsAndHealing #WoodElement #FiveElementTheory #LiverMeridian #GallBladderMeridian #Anger #Frustration #TouchForHealth #BioEnergeticWellness #ReleasingTheWarrior #TeaWithIntentions #KateMontgomery #DeniseCambiotti Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Aug 12

Emotions and Healing: Fear to Courage

What happens when fear is no longer something we need to fight—but information we can learn to understand? In Episode 5 of Emotions & Healing, Dr. Michelle Greenwell is joined by Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, and Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, as we continue around the Five Element Wheel and explore the wisdom of the Water Element. Through the lens of Five Element Theory, Touch for Health®, and BioEnergetic Wellness, we explore the Kidney and Bladder meridians and their relationship with fear, anxiety, courage, resilience, trust, and our ability to move forward when life feels uncertain. Fear has an important purpose. It can alert us, protect us, and help us recognize when something requires our attention. But what happens when fear continues after the immediate challenge has passed? What happens when worry or anxiety begins influencing our choices, movement, posture, breathing, energy, or confidence? Instead of judging the emotion, we can become curious about the information it may be offering. In This Conversation We Explore: 💙 The Water Element within the Five Element Theory 💙 The Kidney and Bladder meridians 💙 Fear and anxiety as information rather than emotions we need to suppress 💙 The relationship between fear, courage, trust, and resilience 💙 How our bodies may respond when we feel uncertain or unsafe 💙 The influence of posture, movement, muscles, and emotional patterns 💙 Practical Touch for Health® and BioEnergetic Wellness tools that can support awareness and organization 💙 How small changes can help us recognize new choices and possibilities The Water Element reminds us that courage does not necessarily mean being without fear. Sometimes courage is recognizing fear, listening to what it has to say, and discovering that we still have choices about what happens next. Tea with Intentions As with every conversation in the Emotions & Healing series, we begin with a mindful pause and our Tea with Intentions. Our tea ritual gives us an opportunity to engage the senses, become present, establish an intention, and notice what changes before we begin exploring the Water Element. Prepare your own cup of tea, take a moment to notice your breath, and consider: What might become possible if I could acknowledge fear while still trusting myself to move forward? Building Your Emotional Wellness Toolbox One of the goals of this series is to help you develop simple skills you can return to in everyday life. You don't need to wait until emotions become overwhelming. By learning to notice subtle changes in breath, posture, movement, tension, energy, and emotional responses, we can begin developing greater awareness of what our bodies are communicating. That awareness gives us somewhere to begin. Continue Your Wellness Journey If this conversation sparks your curiosity, explore the Movement Mastery Program under the Wellness Training tab at GreenwellCenter.com. Discover how integrated movement assessment can help you recognize patterns in posture, organization, and movement while developing practical skills for greater self-awareness. You can also experience these ideas through the Artfilled Wellness Retreat, where movement, music, nature, creativity, Tea with Intentions, and BioEnergetic Wellness create opportunities to explore balance and possibility through experience. Or begin developing foundational skills through Touch for Health® Level 1, where accessible techniques involving muscle monitoring, meridians, movement, goal setting, and emotional balance provide practical tools for yourself, your family, and your wellness journey. Follow the complete Emotions & Healing series as Kate, Denise, and Michelle continue exploring the Five Elements and the many ways our emotions can inform our wellbeing. Like this episode if it inspires a new perspective. Join the conversation: When fear appears, what helps you reconnect with courage and trust? Subscribe so you don't miss the next episode. 📤 Share this conversation with someone who may benefit from discovering a different relationship with fear and anxiety. **Fear can ask us to stop.** **Awareness gives us an opportunity to listen.** **Courage helps us discover what might be possible next.** #EmotionsAndHealing #WaterElement #FiveElementTheory #KidneyMeridian #BladderMeridian #TouchForHealth #BioEnergeticWellness #EmotionalWellbeing #Fear #Anxiety #Courage #Resilience #Trust #TeaWithIntentions #MovementMasteryProgram #ArtfilledWellnessRetreat #GreenwellCenter #KateMontgomery #DeniseCambiotti Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

Aug 3

Emotions and Healing: Breathe and Let Go

What if healing begins with a single breath? In Episode 4 of Emotions & Healing, Dr. Michelle Greenwell welcomes Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, and Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, as they explore the Metal Element through the wisdom of the Five Element Theory, Touch for Health, and the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. The Lung and Large Intestine meridians teach us the importance of breathing deeply, processing grief, establishing healthy boundaries, and letting go of what no longer supports our wellbeing. When the Metal Element is balanced, we experience clarity, inspiration, and the ability to move forward with greater ease. When it is challenged, we may hold onto sadness, regret, guilt, or find ourselves resisting the changes life is asking us to embrace. Together we explore: 🌬️ The Metal Element and emotional resilience 🌿 The Lung and Large Intestine meridians 💛 The relationship between breath, grief, and emotional healing 🍂 Healthy boundaries and the art of letting go ✨ How posture, movement, and muscle balance influence emotional wellbeing 🌱 Practical Touch for Health techniques that support emotional release and renewed vitality Tea with Intentions Today's featured blend from the Cape Breton Tea Company is Thyme Passages, thoughtfully chosen to support the Metal Element and the journey of releasing what no longer serves us. Featured herbs include: 🌿 Thyme – encouraging courage, clarity, purification, and trust in new beginnings. 🌿 Lemon Peel – bringing brightness, optimism, and the gentle reminder that every ending creates space for something new. 🌿 Peppermint – inviting emotional freshness, calm breathing, and renewed perspective. Affirmation: "With every breath, I release what no longer serves me and welcome new possibilities with an open heart." Prepare your favourite cup of tea, take a slow, intentional breath, and join us as we discover how the wisdom of the Metal Element can help us move through grief, embrace change, and find freedom in letting go. Continue Your Wellness Journey 🌿 Experience the Artfilled Wellness Retreat, where movement, creativity, music, nature, and BioEnergetic Wellness come together in a restorative weekend of self-discovery. 🌿 Learn Touch for Health Level 1 and discover practical muscle monitoring and meridian balancing techniques that you can use for yourself, your family, or your professional practice. 🌿 Explore the Movement Mastery Program under the Wellness Training tab at GreenwellCenter.com and learn how organized movement can support posture, emotional resilience, and lifelong wellbeing. If this episode inspired you: 👍 Like this video 💬 Share your reflections in the comments 🔔 Subscribe for future episodes in the **Emotions & Healing** series 📤 Share this conversation with someone who is learning to breathe deeply, let go, and embrace life's next chapter. Healing begins with awareness. Awareness inspires intention. Intention leads to action. Action practiced consistently becomes resilience, balance, and a lifetime of living well. #EmotionsAndHealing #MetalElement #FiveElementTheory #LungMeridian #LargeIntestineMeridian #TouchForHealth #BioEnergeticWellness #Breathwork #GriefHealing #LettingGo #HealthyBoundaries #TeaWithIntentions #ThymePassages #HolisticHealth #MovementMasteryProgram #ArtfilledWellnessRetreat #DrMichelleGreenwell #KateMontgomery #DeniseCambiotti Each episode of the Be Well with Dr. Michelle Greenwell podcast includes the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula. That means that you have the opportunity to have a healing session while you listen based on the way the content is laid out and the activities we participate in. Before listening you can create a goal or an intention of where you would like to be heading with an activity or in your life, then make your cup of tea, engage in the activities and celebrate at the end. Are you looking for more resources? The best way to find all the resources in one location is by visiting https://linktr.ee/greenwellcenter. Become a regular listener of the podcast and purchase your own tea blends to assist you in transformation while you listen. Our podcast is designed to bring balance and flow to your day, week, month, and year. Thanks for sharing us with others who could also benefit. Please send us your feedback and a review. Support the show Dr. Michelle Greenwell, BA Psych, MSc CAM, Ph. D CIH (Complementary and Integrative Health). Striving to support the public to choose self-care and well-being options that create ease and flow in their lives, Michelle specializes in using movement to heal the body. Her BioEnergetic Formula for Success provides a means for everyone to set their intentions and create support and action for flow and ease to the goals. Learn more at www.greenwellcenter.com. Follow her YouTube channel and specialty playlists. Find her full resource list here. She highlights her Tea Company: The Cape Breton Tea Company which you can find at www.capebretontea.ca. Included is the specialty line of Tea with Intention, Harmony Blends and Coaster, and the focus on high quality organic black, green, herbal, rooibos, and honeybush tea. Including tea with your podcast listening is a unique way to explore tea, create healthy habits, and have great conversations with friends and colleagues.

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Emotions and Healing: Breathe and Let Go

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Facing Dementia: The Pressure to Be Well

Facing Dementia: From "Should" to Joy

Messages from the Past to the Future

Who Holds the Authority for Healing?

Emotions and Healing: Circulation and Joy

Emotions and Healing: Anger to Inspiration

Emotions and Healing: Fear to Courage

Emotions and Healing: Breathe and Let Go

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