Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
A podcast about practices to promote healthy lives featuring experts, businesses, and clients: we gather to share our stories about success, failure, exploration, and so much more. Our subscription episodes feature some personal and vulnerable, real-life stories that are sensitive to some of the general public.
Episodes
373 episodes
How Nicholas Kelly Turned Cystic Fibrosis Into A Life Of Service
A terminal diagnosis doesn’t have to be the loudest voice in the room. We sit down with Nicholas Kelly, a Cleveland-born registered dietitian, author, dancer, and longtime cystic fibrosis advocate, to hear how he’s built a life driven by compas...
Investigate Before You Intervene To Improve Fertility Outcomes with Gabriela Rosa
“Unexplained infertility” can sound like a verdict. Gabriella Rosa joins me to argue it’s often a sign we haven’t looked closely enough, or we’re asking the wrong questions. Gabriela is a Harvard-trained fertility specialist and founder of the ...
The Gratitude Equation with Thayne Martin
A lot of people can teach mindset. Far fewer can tell you what it costs to rebuild a nervous system that learned fear before it learned safety. We sit down with Thayne Martin, creator of the “equation of life and abundant happiness,” for a conv...
Jonathan Crawford Proves Recovery Can Become Leadership
A lot of recovery stories skip the messy parts, but Jonathan Crawford doesn’t. He takes us back to being told he was “the man of the house” at 10, growing up in South Central LA, and carrying pressure that quietly shaped his identity, emotions,...
Complete Remission Is Where The Real Work Begins with Dr.Robert Hoffman
“Complete remission” is the phrase everyone hopes to hear, and I just did. But once the celebration settles, the real question shows up fast: how do you keep cancer away when you know recurrence can happen years later and come back tougher than...
Do the Hustle with Don Kurz
Your life can change in one play, one decision, or one diagnosis. When it does, the real question is whether you cling to the old story or build a better one with what’s left.We sit down with Don Kurz, a former Johns Hopkins lacrosse ch...
What If Asking For Help Is Strength with Keith Cole
He didn’t break in Vietnam. He broke years later in a quiet office, with stress piled so high that one more “push through it” simply wasn’t possible. We talk with Keith Cole, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran who carried combat wounds, the trauma ...
Complete Remission with Dr Robert Hoffman
The scariest part of cancer isn’t always the diagnosis, it’s the not knowing if it’s truly gone. After aggressive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and months of brutal chemotherapy, my U.S. PET CT and MRI looked “good,” but nobody could te...
A Carbon-11 Methionine PET Scan Can Confirm Remission with Dr Toshihiko Sato
A scan that can’t wait sounds like science fiction until you hear the numbers: carbon-11 has a 12-minute half-life, which means a carbon-11 methionine PET scan has to be made onsite, injected fast, and run immediately or the signal can vanish. ...
What If Heat Is A Missing Piece
Heat can feel like comfort, but I see it as something more useful than that: a hands-on tool for pain relief, mobility, recovery, and nervous system support. I walk through thermotherapy in plain language, starting with the basics of why warmth...
What Counts As Healing When You Still Feel Broken
Cancer care isn’t just doctors and drugs, it’s paperwork, pricing, side effects, and the emotional whiplash of looking “fine” while you’re still struggling. I’m back with a members-only update after months of heavy treatment, sharing what’s cha...
What If Grief Deserved A Full Year Of Care with Kelly Edmondson
The condolences pour in, the flowers fill the room, and then the funeral ends. What happens when the hardest part of grief shows up weeks later, when everyone else has gone back to normal?We sit down with Kelly Edmondson, a trauma ICU a...
Healing After Childhood Trauma: Healthy living through adversity pt 7
You can feel it when someone stops telling their story to get sympathy and starts telling it to get free. That’s where Juan is right now, and our conversation goes straight into the real mechanics of healing from childhood trauma.We tal...
Neurofeedback, Regulation, And The Real Work Of Healing Trauma with Steve Sapourn
Trauma doesn’t just live in the past. It can live in your nervous system, showing up as anxiety, addiction patterns, sleeplessness, shutdown, or that moment when you feel your brain go offline and you don’t know why. We sit down with Steve Sapo...
Finding Hope After Combat Trauma with Jeremy Stalnecker
A lot of people look “fine” on the outside while they are quietly falling apart on the inside. We talk with Jeremy Stalneker, a Marine Corps infantry veteran and the leader of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, about what happens after combat stress, ...
From Lyme Disease Recovery To Heart Centered Marketing For Wellness Brands with Allie Chandler
When you’re sick and every appointment creates a new theory, hope can feel like a luxury. I sit down with Allie Chandler, founder of Upsell Health, to trace the long road from a life-changing Lyme disease crash to a near-full recovery, and what...
Stop Waiting For A Permission Slip To Heal with Brandon Yager
Something is off in modern health: more specialists, more tests, more “answers” and yet so many people still feel stuck, inflamed, anxious, and exhausted. We sit down with Brandon Yager to explore a different map of healing, one that treats the...
Closing The Door On Your Old Life with Earl Thompson
One moment can split your life into “before” and “after” and you still have to wake up the next day and decide who you’re going to be. Earl Thompson joins me to share the deeply personal story of losing his wife to acute myeloid leukemia, the y...
Science Is Not Certainty with Dr. Robert Hoffman
“Trust the science” is easy to say until you are staring at a scan that can’t truly rule cancer out. We sit down again with Dr. Robert Hoffman to talk about what medical evidence can prove, what it can only suggest, and why patients get trapped...
Empathy Behind Bars with Megan McDrew
Walking into a prison for the first time changes your body before it changes your mind. Gates, rules, metal detectors, and then something you don’t expect: a room full of people trying to practice honesty, calm, and respect. I’m joined by Megan...
Secrets And Healing: pt 6 Healthy living through adversity
A secret can feel like armor, especially when you learned early that telling the truth might cost you love, respect, or safety. We get honest about how childhood trauma turns into a vow of silence, how that vow shapes identity and “manhood,” an...
So Your Oncologist Said “Remission”—Now What? with Dr. Robert Hoffman
A hard truth sits at the center of cancer care: remission isn’t the finish line. We open up about the maintenance mindset—how to manage cancer for the long haul—through a rare blend of lab insight, clinical pragmatism, and real-world patient ex...
How A Lawyer-Therapist Turned Trauma Into Tools Any Parent Can Use with Paula Yost
What does it take to stand up for your family when the system feels stacked against you? We sit down with Paula Yost—both a seasoned attorney and a licensed mental health clinician—to unpack the real skills of advocacy through stories that move...
Rebuilding After Hurt: Healthy living through adversity pt 5
What if we measured justice by how well it heals? We sit down with Juan to unpack a rare, unfiltered look at growth behind the wall—how being seen and heard can jumpstart dignity, how trauma-informed practices rewire the brain, and why labels f...
Trauma, Therapy, And The Mosaic Of You with Scott Stolarick
What if feeling truly safe was the first step to feeling truly better? We sit down with licensed psychotherapist Scott Stolarick to explore how trauma ripples through the body, why listening can be more powerful than lecturing, and how the righ...