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
330 episodes
Spring Into Wellness Retreat with Vee Martinez
Quiet can change a body. That’s where we start—stepping out of the city hum and into a garden where owls work the night shift and mornings begin with breath, not sirens. From that ground, we sketch a retreat designed for real life: simple pract...
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Planning For Care Without Panic with Raymond Lavine
Most people plan to “figure it out later,” until later arrives with a hospital bracelet and a stack of bills. We invited Raymond Lavine—financial services veteran, caregiver advocate, and host of Planning with Purpose—to help us design long-ter...
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From Backyard Herbs To A Holistic First Aid Revolution with Jodi Scott
What happens when a clean-living family realizes their first aid cabinet is the last place to live clean? We sit down with entrepreneur and health psychology expert Jodi Scott to explore how Green Goo grew from backyard herbs and screen doors t...
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Oxygen, Energy, And The Hidden Cost Of Deficiency
Feeling wiped out, lightheaded, or strangely clumsy isn’t just a bad day—it can be anemia quietly starving your body of oxygen. Joe shares a candid look at how anemia showed up during cancer treatment and the exact steps that brought energy bac...
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When Proof Matters More Than Bold Promises with Dr Robert Hoffman
Bold claims don’t save lives—repeatable results do. We bring Dr. Robert Hoffman back to unpack a simple experiment with big consequences: when cancer and normal cells grow together in the same dish, methionine restriction hits tumors while spar...
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From Sacred Plant To Supreme Court: How Illegal Surveillance Threatens Everyone
A simple question with enormous consequences: can the government send someone into your home to record you without a warrant and use it to put you in prison? We sit down with longtime activist Wesley Sudberry to unpack how a cannabis case becam...
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Inside A Formulator’s Toolkit: Why Peppermint Elevates Natural Remedies
Peppermint doesn’t just taste fresh—it changes how a formula feels, works, and even smells. We open the lab door on our small-batch process and walk through the many jobs this single herb can do: calm a stubborn gut, lift a foggy mind, cool a t...
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Prune For Growth
Winter hands us a quiet invitation: press pause, clear the clutter, and set the stage for stronger growth. We take you into the garden at dormancy and show how smart pruning—removing dead wood, thinning crowded branches, and opening the canopy—...
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Choose Being Over Doing: Finding Serenity When Life Sends You To Kathmandu with Bron Watson
What happens when life swaps your sun-soaked vacation for a one-way flight to Kathmandu? That’s how Bron Watson describes the jolt from “I’m cured” to a fresh diagnosis of multiple myeloma—right as her family and business finally felt steady. A...
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Grow A Grateful Mind: From Soil To Soul part 2
What if the fastest way to steady your health is also the simplest: practice gratitude and step outside. Joe opens up about a year of recovery, the lessons learned from a stubborn body and a stubborn garden, and the surprising ways small, consi...
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Winter Solstice, Health, And Hope
The day after the solstice feels different for a reason: the light begins to return, and with it a chance to reset our bodies and our outlook. We dive into what short days really do to mood, immunity, and motivation, then map out simple ways to...
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Finding Joy In Dementia Care with Marilyn Raichle
What if the story we tell about dementia is upside down? Jill sits down with author and advocate Marilyn Raichle to trace her path from reluctant caregiver to devoted care partner for her mother, Jean—a journey sparked by a single painting clas...
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From Feeding Tube To Freedom with Sara Kelsey
A teenage diagnosis of achalasia set Sara on a path she never asked for—esophageal surgery, years of nausea and vomiting, and a later diagnosis of gastroparesis that made eating unpredictable and exhausting. Add the weight of a “permanent” feed...
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Healing The Past Through Yoga with Rachel Krentzman
What if the cure you’re seeking is less about fixing a body part and more about meeting your whole self with honesty and skill? That’s the thread we follow with Rachel Krentzman—yoga therapist, physical therapist, and certified Hakomi psychothe...
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Reading The Signs: Purpose In Motionn with Bishop Kevin Foreman
Some moments feel like they were made just for you. That’s where we begin: with signs that don’t demand worship, but invite movement. Joe shares a mysterious “divine download” memory and Bishop Kevin reframes it as a signal that did its job. Fr...
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He Chose To Live, Found Purpose, And Built A Safer Way To Hire Contractors
A whispered “he’s tombstone” in a silent hospital hallway became the pivot point. John Stewart Hill chose to stay, and that decision reshaped his life—and the way homeowners find trustworthy help. What began with a weak heart and a yellow legal...
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Scans, Choices, And Taking Charge with Dr Robert Hoffman
A “good scan” can feel like a finish line, but we dig into why it’s often just the start of smarter decisions. Joe walks through a favorable MRI, an attentive ENT visit, and the practical next move: get a CT to clarify what’s scar, what’s necro...
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From Diagnosis To Direction: Cara Lockwood On Taking Back Control
A routine mammogram, a life-altering call, and a decision that would shape everything that followed: who holds the wheel. Author Cara Lockwood joins us to talk about facing HER2-positive breast cancer, reclaiming agency, and transforming a frig...
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Becoming Who You’re Meant To Be In Your Later Years with Susanne Eden
What if aging isn’t decline but the door to becoming who you were meant to be? That’s the heart of our conversation with educator and author Suzanne Eden, who at 87 shares a candid, hard-won perspective on health, purpose, and wholeness. We unp...
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Springsteen, Storytelling, And Starting Again with Anne Abel
A stadium full of strangers rose to their feet, Bruce Springsteen smiled into the camera, and Ann Abel felt something she hadn’t in years: possibility. What followed wasn’t a fairy tale; it was a series of small, stubborn yeses that moved her f...
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Rewriting Attention: Trauma, Faith, And The Power Of One Focus with Ron Souers
Ever tried to outrun your brain? Ron Souers did—until speed and stress nearly cost him his job. Our conversation traces that moment of reckoning to a new framework for ADHD: not a defect to hide, but a different wiring to understand, support, a...
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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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