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
309 episodes
Grow A Grateful Mind: From Soil To Soul part 1
Ever notice how a single thought can steer your whole day? We take that idea seriously and put it to work with two powerful tools: gratitude and time in the garden. Joe shares why focusing on what’s working—rather than what’s wrong—can shift yo...
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From Volunteer Dreams To Sustainable Nonprofit: Building Gardens Of Hope That Truly Heal
A desert hillside turns brown each summer, but tucked inside it is a living stream, layered shade houses, and a nonprofit garden built to calm the nervous system. We walk you through how Gardens of Hope grew from a family project into a communi...
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From Hair Pulling To Healing: Hypnotherapy, BFRBs, And Recovery with Kisha Reynolds
The urge feels harmless at first: a tiny bump on the scalp, a rough edge on the skin, a moment of boredom. Then comes the pull or the pick, the trance-like focus, the fleeting relief—and the shame that follows. We invited certified clinical hyp...
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From Triggers To Triumph: A Practical Guide To Change with Joe Grumbine
Change doesn’t start with willpower; it starts with honesty. Joe opens up about the habits that held him back, from tobacco cravings to the quiet compromises that sneak in during hard seasons, and lays out a practical path to break negative cyc...
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Own Your Health: From Toxic Load To Longevity with Eddie Stone
Feeling stuck between wellness hype and real results? We sat down with Eddie Stone, founder and CEO of Touchstone Essentials, to cut through the noise and focus on what actually moves the needle: reducing daily toxic load and fueling the body w...
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From Overparenting To Underachieving: A Memoir Of Schizoid Personality And Survival with Blair Sorrel
What if a childhood built on criticism and distance teaches your nervous system to disappear? We sit with author and advocate Blair Sorell to uncover how schizoid personality disorder can form as a learned defense—and how clarity, therapy, and ...
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How Darkness, Routine, And Science Rebuild Your Sleep with Lori Oliver
Sleepless nights don’t just steal your energy; they tax your memory, your mood, and the way every system in your body repairs itself. We sit down with Lori Oliver, a former executive who turned years of burnout into a mission to make better sle...
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How A Psychologist Turns Hardship Into Strength You Can Use Today with Dr Kate Lund
Resilience shouldn’t live on a poster. It should live in your day. We sat down with Dr. Kate Lund—psychologist, TEDx speaker, and host of The Optimized Mind—to turn big ideas about mental health into tools you’ll actually use. From childhood su...
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A Peer-Reviewed Paper Turned One Patient’s Cancer Reversal Into Evidence with Dr Robert Hoffman
A tumor melting on camera, a radiology scan to match, and a paper that moved from submission to PubMed faster than we expected—this is the story of how careful documentation turned a personal win into shared evidence. We walk through the case r...
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Healing Takes Work, Not Wishes with Richard McCuen
Healing doesn’t arrive on command; it arrives when faith and effort finally meet. Joe sits down with longtime friend and frequent guest Richard McCuen for a candid, grounded conversation about moving from crisis to momentum—through chemo, scans...
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From Isolation To Connection: Healing Addiction’s Hidden Roots with Severn Lang part 2
A single fridge door can tell the truth you’ve been avoiding. When our guest boxed up their home to break a cycle of compulsive shopping, a shelf of condiments sparked an unexpected reckoning with grief, a father’s dry alcoholism, and the way a...
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What If Recovery Starts With Being Heard? with Kate MIhevc Edwards
What if your “knee problem” isn’t really a knee problem at all? We sit down with Dr. Kate Mihevc Edwards, a physical therapist and board-certified orthopedic specialist who practices running medicine, to unpack how true recovery starts when we ...
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From Isolation To Connection: Healing Addiction’s Hidden Roots with Severn Lang part 1
Ever feel like the thing that “helps” you is the very thing that keeps you alone? That’s where Severn Lang lived for years—sipping ease, swallowing pain, and drifting further from the people who could save him. What follows is a rare, generous ...
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From Shock To Strength wirh Ravi Kathuria. part 1
A single sentence can split a life in two. When Joe got the call confirming squamous cell carcinoma, everything he’d been building—his nonprofit healing garden, a growing podcast, a community of practitioners—had to be measured against one urge...
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Soul-Centered Healing With Amy Marohn
A baffling illness. A stark choice. And a return with purpose. When master hypnotist and trans medium Amy Marohn reached the edge of life, she came back with a map for soul-centered healing that meets the body where it actually lives—messy, bri...
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From Cocaine To Central Park: A Poet’s Healing Journey with Aaron Poochigian
A poet’s recovery story rarely starts with a bus up Third Avenue and a rule about not writing while high. Ours does. We sit down with classicist and translator Aaron Poochigian to trace a line from an 18-year-old’s epiphany reading Virgil, thro...
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How A Voice-First Mentor Delivers The Right Knowledge At The Right Time with Derek Crager
A smarter path to AI starts with a simple idea: the best help feels like calling a friend who knows your world. We sit down with Derek Krager, founder of Practical AI and creator of Pocket Mentor, to unpack how voice-first guidance can deliver ...
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Chihiro Hozumi and Dr Robert Hoffman Join the Healthy Living Podcast
What happens when you weaken a tumor’s favorite fuel and time chemotherapy to hit at its most vulnerable moment? We sit down at the Anti-Cancer Institute with Dr. Robert Hoffman and Chihiro Hozumi to unpack a practical, evidence-backed model co...
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How A Botanical Nonprofit Uses Nature To Support Mental Health, Veterans, And Local Schools
A garden can be a classroom, a clinic, and a kitchen—often in the same morning. We open the gate to Gardens of Hope, our 501(c)(3) botanical nonprofit in Perris, California, and share a practical update on how nature-based care is helping veter...
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Spirituality Without Dogma: Simple, Practical, Yours with With Ravi Kathuria
What if the most important thing about you can be experienced in the next three minutes—no doctrine, no gatekeepers, no perfect routine? That’s where Ravi takes us: to a definition of spirituality so simple it almost feels subversive—spirituali...
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Unraveling Complex Illness With Dr. Michael Scoma
When medicine gets messy—overlapping symptoms, normal labs, no clear path—most systems fall back on short visits and narrow playbooks. We went the other way. With Dr. Michael Scoma, an infectious disease and immunology specialist, we explore ho...
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From Bobsled Glory to Hyperbaric Hope: William Pearson on TBI, CTE, and Building Access to Healing part 2
What do you do when the “bad days” become your default and medicine only names the symptoms? We sit down with former U.S. bobsledder William Pearson to trace his path from elite performance to a slow, frightening cognitive slide—and the oxygen-...
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From Loss to Sanctuary: Marcia Earhart on faith, forgiveness, and rebuilding a family after unthinkable tragedy
Grief can steal your breath, your sleep, and the story you thought your family would live. Our guest, Marcia Earhart, invites us into the raw center of losing two sons—first in a sudden car accident, then, five years later, to murder—and shows ...
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From Bobsled Crashes to Brain Clarity: William Person’s Fight for CTE Healing and Access
The story starts with a crash—but not the kind you see on TV. Former Team USA bobsledder William Person maps the quiet damage of micro-concussions, relentless G-forces, and years of migraines, vertigo, and sensory overload that slowly stole his...
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