Balancing Chaos Podcast Kelley & Chad Nemiro

On today's episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, Kelley sits down with author, trauma expert and healer, Karena Kilcoyne. Karena's story has a challenging beginning where she faced profound trauma early in her life. Her mother tried to give her away at birth, and at the age of 12, Karena’s father's incarceration left the family struggling. After her mother's death, Karena adopted her 9-year-old brother and graduated from law school at 24. Karena carried around two decades worth of suppressed trauma for the next 10+ years and, after decades of suffering, went on a healing journey. Since then, Karena has written a book, Rise Above Your Story, guiding her audience to acknowledge, release, and rise above their limiting beliefs to create more emotional freedom and self-love.
In this episode Kelley and Karena dive into the complex topic of overcoming trauma, letting go of the victim mentality and cultivating a deep sense of empowerment that comes through taking personal responsibility to create the life of your dreams no matter what happened in your past. Whether you have been through a small trauma or a big trauma, they all impact our subconscious beliefs about ourselves and our actions. Through their conversation you will learn how to acknowledge your own story without judgement, discover effective ways to process what happened to you, find out how to break free of victim mentality so you can embrace your authenticity, relieve yourself of the burden you're carrying through forgiveness and reinforce self connection in a world where we are constantly triggered. Tune in find inner strength, overcoming adversity, and own your power.

We have officially switched the cadence of the show to give our listeners more of what they want so every other week you will have Kelley on the mic, answering your listener questions that you submitted that week. This way you can get expert advice on topics that can be answered in a long form fashion that you couldn't otherwise get on social media. Kelley's goal is to educate and empower women to make more informed decisions about their health.
In this week's episode of the show, Kelley is answering your listener questions, offering insights on everything from metabolic health, to hormonal birth control, motherhood, and more. She begins the episode by diving into the real risks of hormonal birth control so you have informed consent before choosing which option works for you. From there Kelley emphasizes the importance of metabolic not just in weight loss but also in the prevention of chronic diseases from autoimmune conditions to cancer and how to test your metabolic health to ensure you're improving. Finally, she talks about the reality of the stress we face as women and how we can manage that stress so that it doesn't impact our metabolisms, our moods, our patience levels or create resentment in the long run. Throughout the episode, Kelley aims to provide comprehensive, science-backed information on a variety of topics to help you make informed decisions about your health.

In today's episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, Kelley sits down with world renowned women's health and hormones specialist, Dr. Aviva Romm. Aviva Romm is an MD, a midwife, and an herbalist who sees health and medicine a different way than a lot of doctors. Her focus is on what she calls ‘our total health ecology’, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and common children’s health problems. She is considered one of the world leaders in botanical medicine and is the author of seven books on natural medicine, including the textbook Hormone Intelligence and The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution.
In today's episode of the show, Kelley and Dr. Romm discuss the impact of lifestyle on chronic conditions in women. Dr. Romm emphasizes that 85-95% of chronic conditions are due to lifestyle factors, challenging the notion that certain issues like painful periods, bad PMS and weight gain / irritability / insomnia in perimenopause and menopause, are just a normal part of being a woman. Dr. Romm aims to help women understand how lifestyle choices can influence their health from puberty to menopause. So join them today as they uncover the impacts of stress on other hormones, how your microbiome influences everything from hormones to cancer, the truth about the risks and benefits of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and so much more!

In today's episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, join Kelley and her social media manager Kate as the mics get swapped and Kelley gets interviewed for the first time on the show! This is something you guys have been asking for for a long time, and is a fun way to get your questions answered in a longer format, where Kelley thrives! You all submitted questions, and Kelley answered on a wide range of topics from health and hormones to parenting and Vegas hot spots. Tune in to get insight into her perspective on a wide range of topics and learn how she navigates motherhood, entrepreneurship and balancing her own health and relationships with practical tips and tools you can take away.

On this episode of the Balancing Chaos podcast, Kelley dives into the topic of weight loss resistance, a common issue that so many women struggle with, especially as we approach summer and theres a desire to feel confident, light and lean in our bodies. Despite what you've heard, eating less and moving more isn't the key to weight loss success. A lot of the time, the more you try to restrict or over-exercise, the worse things can get. And if you aren’t aware hormonal imbalances are happening beneath the surface, you may assume that you need to restrict calories even more or exercise harder.
 
If you've ever found yourself in this frustrating cycle of dieting and exercising relentlessly, only to see minimal results or even worse, no results at all, you're not alone. Kelley takes this episode to explain the role of hormones in weight loss and weight maintenance and the impact hormones have on metabolic health. She explores some of the common hormonal imbalances that may be sabotaging your weight loss journey and tools you can implement with respect to each imbalance that can serve as sustainable solutions. She also discusses the mental and emotional pitfalls we fall into when trying to lose weight and how to proactively help to prevent emotional and overeating. Tune in for strategies to stop grazing and balance blood sugar, overcoming food rules and restriction and to find out what underlying hormonal imbalance may be preventing you from having the results you want! 

In today's episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, Chad and Kelley sit down with Dr. Christian Gonzalez to discuss the importance of the mind body connection in healing chronic disease. Dr. Christian Gonzalez, aka Dr. G, began his career as a naturopathic doctor in 2014, but it wasn’t until his mother passed of cancer that he decided to shift his focus to oncology. Through his work Dr. G has made it his mission for people to understand that the relationships we have with our homes, the environment, and the people in our lives all play a role in the development of chronic disease. As he studied this concept more, Dr. G has become extremely passionate about environmental medicine as well as the mind, body, spirit connection.
Throughout the episode today, Kelley, Chad and Dr. G explore the concept of separating oneself from their ego to find inner peace and balance within the physical body. Dr. G shares insights on the mind-body connection and the importance of creating space within the physical body to alleviate stress and thereby help to prevent the onset of chronic disease from hormonal imbalances to cancer. The conversation details everything from what types of symptoms and conditions arise (from cancer to cortisol imbalances and everything in between) when we're not deeply connected to our physical bodies and when we're repressing emotions, how to begin to feel tension within your body and how to process it rather than store it, how to help our children navigate their emotions rather than getting them caught in a generational trauma cycle, the TRUTH about the impact of alcohol on your physical health and what to prioritize if you want to heal a chronic condition.
Get ready for an insightful episode that will empower you to explore your emotional and mental health in order to heal your physical body.