The Luminous Body Podcast: Healing from Within
Have you been everywhere? Done everything? Seen everyone? and getting no where on your healing journey?
You’re not alone! In fact, it’s one of the most common thing we hear from our patients at Luminous Body.
We started this podcast to make the knowledge, tools and information accessible for everyone. We want you to have access to everything you need to heal, grow and evolve! In this podcast we talk about health and wellness through the lens of holistic healthcare. We firmly believe that the whole human must be considered in the healthcare process in order to fully address the underlying cause of health challenges and to create the opportunity to overcome these health challenges.
Our training and experience as educators and practitioners combined with our lived experiences has seen us explore many different healing avenues and we are committed to bringing you that information in easy to understand and digestible ways.
In this podcast we talk through the many different alternative healing modalities and combine them with evidence based information to bridge the gap between traditional medical care and alternative healing techniques. You will be inspired and you will be more informed and more empowered about your health than ever before.
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Episode 1: Healing From Within: How Holistic Healthcare can Change Your Life
Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? This is your opportunity to learn about the immense power humans have to heal, and how you can unlock the secrets of the body and harness that energy to transform your life and elevate your vitality.
Welcome to the first-ever episode of the Luminous Body podcast - we’re your hosts, Dr. Hilary Conroy (B.ChirSc, M.Chiro) and Dr. Jaxson Wearing (B.ChirSc, M.Chiro, M.Res). We’re starting this journey off with an introduction to holistic healthcare, and how taking a broad and collaborative approach when seeking treatment can elevate your outcomes from a simple ‘band-aid fix’ to a deep systemic wellness. As society pivots from a focus only on traditional methods, alternative health modalities are stepping up to fill the gaps in the system. We’ll be sharing both personal and patient examples of the benefits that can be gained from exploring a range of different treatment options. Why would we treat one symptom when we could address the body as a whole? Join us as we break down the importance of treating every aspect, from the physical, to chemical, to emotional - and how only then can we achieve true healing.
We’ll explore:
☀️ Understanding the concept of the triad of health
☀️ The benefits of combining multiple health modalities
☀️ Autonomy and taking control of your own healthcare decisions
☀️ Practical applications of holistic healthcare in realistic situations
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and @drjaxsonwearing and @luminousbody.co
Episode 2: The 5 Biggest Misconceptions On How To Actually Heal
The spread of medical misinformation can lead to uncertainty and confusion when seeking out healthcare. In some cases, it can be enough to deter patients from ever reaching out at all. But does it have to be that way?
We’re debunking some of the most common myths and misconceptions in this week’s episode of the Luminous Body podcast, and how they can be holding you back from taking the next step towards healing. With so many different treatment options and health modalities available it can be difficult to sort fact from fiction, and when these beliefs are based in fear it complicates our perceptions even further as we reject reality and close ourselves off to new information. Whether it’s doubting your ability to heal, or comparing your symptoms with someone else, any set-backs can shatter our trust in the healing process. But it doesn’t have to be this way - we’re arming you with the knowledge you need, from understanding why treatment options might vary from case to case, to being aware of what a healing journey should typically look like. We’ll help you to take the next step with confidence, rather than fear.
We’ll explore:
🌱 How fear-based perceptions can cause barriers to accessing healthcare
🌱 The body as an individual system, and the effect this can have on treatment plans
🌱 How healing can present in a non-linear way
🌱 The importance of trust in your healthcare provider, and yourself
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and @drjaxsonwearing and @luminousbody.co
Episode 3: Defining ‘Healthy’: It’s not just about NOT being sick!
Can you be truly healthy if you no longer have back pain, but you have emotional baggage from the breakdown of your demanding relationship? Could you be truly healthy treating a disease with rounds of stressful and invasive procedures, without having a support network around you to help manage the toll on your mental health?
If someone asked you if you feel healthy, it might be easy to default to an ‘I’m not sick, so I must be healthy’ attitude. But working within that assumption means that health can only be defined as an absence of illness, and it assumes that is the maximum capacity we have for health as human beings - but we have so much more potential than this. We are going back to the basics of holistic healthcare in this week’s episode to define what ‘healthy’ could truly mean for you. We’ll also be explaining how blockages in your psyche could be stopping you from wanting to feel well, and how unravelling these self-limiting beliefs can help you discover and address the root cause of the issues. Only by treating all the parts of yourself can we create healthiness as a whole. Don’t accept the bare minimum for your health - there’s no limitation to vitality!
We’re breaking down:
👩🏫 Defining what being ‘healthy’ truly means: not just treating the physical aspects of health
👩🏫 The need for community and connection that we require for our emotional health
👩🏫 How we use pain and illness as a tool to express other unmet needs
👩🏫 Using diverse healing options in a broad holistic approach
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and
Episode 4: What you do day to day matters more than you think…
Over the last few years especially, the risk of catching an infectious disease has changed the world. Whether that’s sanitising our hands constantly, staying three feet away from each other, or wearing masks, we’ve adjusted our lives to avoid potential illness out in society. But the statistics of leading health issues tell us a different story - we should be looking closer to home.
Examining the choices that we make day to day is critical in reducing our health risks. Our environment is full of potential risk factors such as toxins in our diet or stress at work, and we can create maladaptive strategies to cope with the daily influx. In this week’s episode, we’ll be looking at the toll lifestyle diseases are taking on our bodies, from childhood through to adulthood. Whilst typical medicine focuses more on fixing the physical symptoms that arise from these illnesses, we’re taking a holistic view of the root causes of these issues - and how you can stop them in their tracks. Using one of our favourite (and easy to understand!) holistic frameworks, we’ll be breaking down the link between lifestyle illness and your physical, biochemical, and emotional health. Only by treating your body as a whole, can we heal the sum of your parts.
We’ll be discussing:
😷 Influences of lifestyle and environment on health risk factors
😷 The leading causes of death and suffering across health groups
😷 Poor mental health and the impact it can manifest in the body
😷 The triad of health: the physical, biochemical, and emotional branches of healthcare
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and @drjaxsonwearing
Episode 5: Inside Out! Exploring the Chemistry of your Health Part 1
Have you ever heard the old saying, ‘you are what you eat’? It’s not just what you eat that makes a difference in your body: it’s the air you breathe, the sun on your skin, and the environment you live in. All of these factors fuel the millions of intricate pathways that keep our bodies alive every single day.
What we do (or don’t) absorb can change the very foundations of our biology as humans.In this week’s episode we start our very first series for the podcast, where we aim to make science simple again! This series is all about breaking down biochemistry and the role it plays in our bodies and in our health outcomes. Biochemistry (the chemistry of all living things) relies on our intake from the world around us to create the energy required for our systems to function. Every system in our body has a purpose, and we’ll be discussing some of the most common biochemical reactions and how they influence our physical health and emotional wellbeing too. We’ll also be diving into which essential nutrients are needed for daily performance, where your body gets these nutrients from, and how they are then broken down and create the building blocks of life. Balance is nature's key to thriving - we also provide an insight on what happens when this balance is compromised, and how you can use holistic frameworks to support and transform your overall health.
We start from the very beginning:
🍏 Understanding what is biochemistry: our bodies’ systems and pathways
🍏 Explaining the difference between macro vs micronutrients, and why we need both
🍏 Acknowledging the role of environmental factors in our biochemistry makeup
🍏 Recognising the effects of imbalanced biochemical systems
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and
Episode 6: Inside Out! Exploring the Chemistry of your Health Part 2
It’s something that all of us do every single day, multiple times a day, and we often don’t even give it a second thought. But while it’s easy to oversimplify the act of eating food, it’s not as easy to overstate the critical importance of the millions of pathways that process that food and fuel every action we take.
Our food has a long journey from start to finish in your digestive system, and there are so many factors that affect how successful that journey is in providing your body with the nutrients it needs to function efficiently. In this week’s episode, we continue our science-made simple series about biochemistry! After last week’s 101 introduction to biochemical pathways and nutrients, we’re now looking at how we consume and absorb those necessary nutrients every day. Taking a trip down the incredible process that is the digestive system, we’ll take a step-by-step approach to the path your food takes through it, and how our chemical pathways have evolved in precise ways to draw every possible nutrient out - and then put them to work. Not all foods are created equal, however! We’re also diving deeper into the value of those very nutrients and the varied nutrient density of our modern-day diet, and the common challenges that are facing us in a society fuelled by overconsumption and mass production. But no system is 100% perfect - we’ll be recognising the complex multifactorial effect of nutrient leeching, or nutrient loss, with a holistic approach that takes a broad view to heal the whole you and not just your symptoms.
We’re breaking down and digesting all the facts:
🧑🍳 Looking at the nutrient density of our everyday diet, and the different options available
🧑🍳 The journey your food takes through your body, and how it uses all the nutrients you consume
🧑🍳 Understanding the biochemical processes of your digestive system
🧑🍳 How nutrients can be lost from the body - what holisitic healthcare can do about it!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and
Episode 7: Inside Out! Exploring the Chemistry of your Health Part 3
When we absorb molecules from the air around us, the things we touch, and the food we eat, it would be remiss of us to believe that only those that are ‘good’ are taken up into the system. These exposures can have an accumulative effect and stay within us, hidden, for years to come.
They’re all around us, even if we don’t realise it! But microscopic toxins and pathogens can play a significant role in our biochemical system function - or the lack of. Welcome to the Luminous Body podcast, where we are continuing with part 3 of our biochemical investigation series. Whilst we’ve been looking previously at the vital nutrients that we need to fuel our bodies every day, we’re taking a different approach today! Our world has an abundance of toxins and pathogens, and it’s almost impossible to avoid them. We’re going to be investigating these little toxins and pathogens that we come into contact with every day, and how they’ve become such a significant part of the world around us. By giving you some real-life examples, we’re encouraging you to take a deeper look into your own body and evaluate the sometimes hidden signs that you might be a (somewhat unwilling!) host for those microscopic travellers. From parasites to bacteria, to heavy metals and viruses, the influence and interference they are able to play throughout our biochemical pathways, from our brains and even taking up residence in our stomachs. Whilst it might sound unsettling (or even just a bit gross!), it’s critical to understand the roles that these invisible invaders are playing within your body so that you can then learn to manage that effect. Our bodies have evolved to have some incredible defence and detox systems in place - we want to work with them, not against them!
We’re putting the facts under a microscope:
🦠 What exactly are toxins and pathogens, and where are they found in our environment?
🦠 Biochemical disruptors: how accumulations and copycats can interrupt our natural processes
🦠 Detox and defence systems in our body, and how we can support our bodies
🦠 How to spot symptoms of toxins and pathogens in your own bod
Get ready to unlock your inner light and start healing from within!
If you’re ready to start your holistic health journey, we’d love to help you take that first step - feel free to head to our website to contact us for any information or to book your appointment now: https://www.luminousbody.co/
And if you had any comments on the show, any questions you might want answered, or you just want to connect - reach out to us directly on social media @hilary.conroy and @drjaxsonwearing