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Dec 9, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Mo Perry |Courtney Helgoe |Aviva Romm
Heart-rate variability (HRV) — the time between individual heartbeats — is one of the best measures of vagal tone. A healthy heart doesn’t beat like a metronome; its rhythm varies by hundreds of milliseconds as the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems engage in a dynamic push and pull. Chronically stressed people tend to have low HRV, writes Sara Mednick, PhD, in The Power of the Downstate.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Mo Perry |Aviva Romm |David Richo |Jessie Sholl
Fitness coach Mark Schneider, NASM-CPT, recently worked with a client with a stubborn, mysterious pain. “She had an ongoing foot-ankle issue for several months that was starting to inhibit her ability to walk,” says Schneider, who’s trained in functional medicine and specializes in helping clients with injuries and chronic pain. Her doctors hadn’t been able to find anything physically wrong.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Maggie Fazeli Fard |Aviva Romm |Nicole Radziszewski |Karla Walsh
Lie down and do nothing. For many people, savasana, or corpse pose, is one of the most challenging asanas in their practice. Not because it’s physically demanding, but because it’s precisely the opposite: Savasana is a call to rest. Across many styles of yoga, savasana (also called mrtasana, or death pose) is considered the most important aspect of a practice. It promotes mindfulness, body awareness, and recovery.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jessie Sholl |Katie Dohman |Aviva Romm
Explore the 7 Types of Rest:Physical Rest • Mental Rest • Emotional Rest • Social Rest • Sensory Rest • Creative Rest • Spiritual RestIt’s common for Americans to wear busyness as a badge of honor. Maybe staying occupied allows us to avoid emotions we would rather not face. Or we’re trying to cope with very real economic pressures. Possibly we’ve been stereotyped as lazy and feel driven to work twice as hard as everyone else to avoid those judgments.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
player.fm | Katy Bowman |Krista Williams |Lindsey Simcik |Aviva Romm
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Mo Perry |Aviva Romm |Laine Bergeson Becco
Several factors affect your individual toxic load. The first is exposure. “Everyone has a different exposure level to things in our environment,” says Sara Jean Barrett, ND, a Minneapolis-based integrative practitioner who treats patients with chronic health conditions.. She notes that particular occupations, or living near industrial sites, may expose us to more toxins than our body’s natural detox systems can handle.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
player.fm | Katy Bowman |Krista Williams |Lindsey Simcik |Aviva Romm
Do your eyes glaze over when looking at a long list of annual health insurance enrollment options – or maybe while you’re trying to calculate how much you owe the IRS? You might be wondering the same thing we are: Where’s the guidebook for all of this grown-up stuff? Whether opening a bank account, refinancing student loans, or purchasing car insurance (...um, can we just roll the dice without it?), we’re just as confused as you are. Enter: “Grown-Up Stuff: How to Adult” a podcast dedicated ...
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Alexandra Smith |David Richo |Aviva Romm |Samantha McKinney
A panic attack will eventually end on its own, but you can ease the process by sending the message to your amygdala that it’s safe to stand down. Here are several ways to do so. Breathe deep to counter hyperventilation with its opposite: slow breaths originating from your diaphragm rather than your chest (place one hand on your abdomen and one on your chest to ensure you’re breathing from your belly).
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jessie Sholl |David Richo |Aviva Romm |Laine Bergeson Becco
Last month, my friend Sarah and I walked into a Mexican restaurant together after our weekly Zumba class. Without speaking, we gravitated toward a two-top at the outer edge of the dining room. The week before, at the same restaurant, I’d asked the host if we could change locations twice because the first two options were near loud, crowded tables. It’s almost impossible for me to have a conversation with someone if there’s someone else speaking behind me.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Mo Perry |Julie Dulude |Emily Nagoski |Aviva Romm
“Endometriosis is an immune and inflammatory problem that’s triggered by cyclic hormonal changes and worsened by chronic environmental-toxin exposure,” explains integrative-medicine physician and herbalist Aviva Romm, MD. While the exact causes of the condition remain unclear, these are some possible contributing factors.
