Tag Archives: health

Abigail Wald: Spinning Straw Into Gold

October 24, 2017PodcastAbigail Wald, brain, children, communication, Diane McDaniel, encephalitis, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship, food, Hand in Hand parenting, health, heart, heart baby, parenting, podcast, Real Time Parenting, snack bar, spinning straw into gold, surgery, whole foods, YES BarDianeMcDaniel

Abigail Wald is founder of YES Bar and Real Time Parenting. Abigail talks about the serious health challenges faced by her two young sons, and how these experiences of adversity spurred her entrepreneurial spirit and led her to start two new businesses. Abigail also talks about how the parenting tools she learned helped her to achieve her lifelong goal of teaching people to communicate effectively and leave the world a little better off than how she found it.

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Elissa Goodman: Charting a Path of Healing and Thriving

August 8, 2017Podcastanti-inflammatory, bone marrow transplant, cancer, cancer-free, children, cleanse, daughter, daughters, death, entrepreneur, healing, health, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, holistic, holistic nutrition, hope, juicing, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, nutrition, radiation, reinvention, self help, spiritual practice, stress, surviving, therapy, thriving, trauma, vegan, vegetarian, wellness, whole foodsDianeMcDaniel

Elissa Goodman is a holistic nutritionist, cleanse expert, and author of Cancer Hacks. Following her own experience with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1992, and her husband’s death 11 years later from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Elissa turned to the study of holistic nutrition as a conduit to healing for herself and her young daughters. That path led her to reinvent herself, and at age 50 she launched a thriving nutrition enterprise. Elissa talks about her belief that we can all participate in our own holistic healing by incorporating a spiritual practice and attending to the body’s nutritional needs by eating whole foods.

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Carmen Osornio: Cancer Impacts the Entire Family

May 9, 2017Podcastcare, cervical cancer, children, coping strategies, death, family, health, immigrant, immigration, life goals, love, metastatic, sibling, supportDianeMcDaniel

A cancer diagnosis and its aftermath reverberate throughout a family. Relationships between members change as the entire family system is affected. How does a family cope when one of its members does not survive the illness?

Today, I speak with Carmen Osornio, whose sister, Ivonne, died in 2016 of metastatic cervical cancer. Carmen talks about the vital leadership role her sister played as the eldest child in this immigrant family and the impact of Ivonne’s decline and eventual death on their close-knit extended family. Carmen discusses the support and coping strategies that she and her family depended upon during her sister’s illness, as well as her decision to focus on caring for the wellbeing of Ivonne’s young son during his mother’s decline and after her death. Carmen also considers how this experience led to a renewed commitment to attending to her own health, mustering the courage to follow through on her life goals, and her pledge to demonstrate love and caring to those in her life.

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Catherine McDonough: Cancer is My Biggest Yoga Pose

April 25, 2017Podcastbreast cancer, breast self exam, cancer, chemotherapy, downsizing, health, lumpectomy, meditation, mindfulness, nurse practitioner, psychological freedom, radiation, UCLA Breast Center, yogaDianeMcDaniel

Receiving a diagnosis of cancer is a shock, even to medical professionals who are well aware that cancer can happen to anyone. How does one cope with and respond to the changes in self-perception that occur when cancer intervenes?

Today, I speak with Catherine McDonough, yoga teacher and nurse practitioner, who in 2017 was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. We explore Catherine’s use of yoga and meditation as complementary practices to traditional oncology protocols. Catherine talks about her coping strategy of simplifying and becoming more mindful, less external. She also explores how this dreaded diagnosis has given her a measure of psychological freedom that has promoted her to lighten her attachment to things and leave a smaller footprint in her wake.

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