Curiosity Junkie Cassie Burton

Julie Ryan McGue who is an author, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. She writes extensively about finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it.Julie’s debut award winning memoir Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging (She Writes Press) came out in May 2021. It is the story of her five-year search for birth relatives. Julie has a weekly blog That Girl, This Life and a monthly column at The Beacher that focus on identity, family, and life’s ...

Today Jamie and I dive into the food sensitivity test results, taking a look at the foods that are causing me and my body issues.I've been working with Jamie for about 7 weeks now and I am already seeing some success. I've lost inches in my mid-section (all bloating from food reactions), there is virtually no pain in my hands and my energy is on the rise.The food journal has become my best friend, even if I don't always use it. I am learning so much about which foods cause me pain and which f...

While journaling my food habits I discovered I was doing a bit of negative self talk, and that got me thinking... Why do we talk negative to ourselves? And how do we find ways not to talk negatively to ourselves?Tracy Brady shares a few things throughout our conversation that we can do to help when we find we're in a negative conversation with ourselves. Music by Sonic Yogi: https://sonicyogi.com/ Support the Show.Website: https://cassieburton.com YouTube: https://www.yout...

My daughter and I talk about once a week. And everytime we talk, we say, that would've made a great podcast. So a few weeks ago on a Saturday morning we talked for almost 3 hours and recorded the whole conversation. I'm sharing the first hour of our conversation, and will follow it up with the 2nd part later this month.Didn't do much editing so you are getting a very raw and real look at how our mother/daughter conversations typically go. We talk about consistency, trauma, values, being ...

As I walk into 2024 I'm realizing the health issues I learned about in 2023 have continued to decline. I was told my cholesterol was on the rise, my good estrogen was at zero and my bad estrogen was elevated, and I’ve been slowly putting on weight for over a year now.My lack of action in 2023 leaves me with 2 options; go it alone, which has not worked for me so far. Or phone a friend (who also happens to be a functional nutritionist), and begin the process of working with my doctor and my nut...

Did you know that 9 out of 10 people will fail their new year resolutions?Did you know that the average resolutions last about 3.74 months?Yes, yes they will! And because failure of resolution setting is so common, there are unofficial dates commemorating resolution failure. I love this!!We already know we are going to fail, so why not create a day to celebrate our failures.The first one is called “Ditch New Year Resolutions Day” and it’s on January 17th.The second one is unofficially called ...