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Welcome to Neff Inspiration, a show dedicated to revolutionizing your health through the lens of functional medicine. Hosted by a functional medicine practitioner, this platform delves into the science of healing from the inside out. Whether you’re seeking solutions for mental health, trauma recovery, or overcoming addiction, I provide actionable tools and expert insights to help you transform your life. With a focus on root-cause medicine, sustainable wellness strategies, and personal growth, I aim to inspire you to become the best version of yourself. Join me in redefining health, one powerful conversation at a time.
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Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Lights out, blinds drawn, door locked, phone off, I curled up in a fetal position under the desk in my office. I kept asking myself, “Skip, what are you doing? How did you get here?” I thought, “What happened? I’m a tough guy. I’ve been in the Army 25 years, I’m a Colonel, physician, deployed 30 months in combat zones, and endured many hardships. I’m a National Wrestling Champion. I’m tough!” Over the next four hours, I wrestled with these questions. Utterly broken, I finally admitted, “Skip, you’re depressed, go get some help!” April 17, 2014 was a new start.
Donald G. “Skip” Mondragon, MD, graduated from the Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals in Canton, Ohio. Colonel Mondragon is a twenty-six-year Army veteran, spent thirty months in combat zones, and is a National Veterans Wrestling Champion. Skip became a casualty of depression and as he recovered, was called to advocate for men struggling with this dark disease by speaking and writing. He is the author of Wrestling Depression Is Not For Wimps! Skip and his wife, Sherry, reside in Midlothian, Texas.
Skip's 3 top tips:
1. Even tough guys get depressed! You’re not a wimp if you ask for help.
2. We all need a strong support system of family, friends, and faith.
3. God can take your mess and transform it into your message.
Skip can be reached on FB and Twitter @SkipWNW and through his website at www.wrestlingisnotforwimps.com
You can find his book on Google, Barnes and Noble, and on Amazon at www.amazon.com/author/skipmondragon
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Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
International show host, podcast producer and trainer creating global conscious
conversations Lisa herself is an international best selling published author with
a background in holistic nutrition and life coaching. Lisa breathes life into
the dreams of her listener, guests and clients with her enthusiasm and positive
mindset and excels in her Lightworker’s role as she helps them to turn their
content and books into podcasts and helps them express their message vibrantly
and energetically.
Lisa is a Councillor and Founding Faculty member of IAUSM, Academy Of
Universal Self Mastery, and together with business partner and co-author Tamas
Garza leads the IAUSM Media Department. With a desire for wellness for all as
her guiding star Lisa recognizes her passion position is to find, help and connect
with those who need and want to shine.
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Martha Lewis is a sleep consultant to health-conscious, high achievers who want to sleep but can’t. With multiple sleep certifications, an MS in holistic nutrition and as an expert on gut health, she addresses both body and mind with stress resilience techniques and testing for underlying health issues to get to the root cause of her clients’ insomnia. She has been featured in numerous publications, such as Thrive Global and Swanwick Sleep, and various podcasts around the world and is also a passionate speaker on the topic of sleep.
In Martha's words:
If you struggle to get a good night’s sleep and you’ve tried everything you know to do, there’s something going on in your body that is keeping you awake at night. Alcoholism and insomnia are both signs that your body is way out of balance. The good news is that you are meant to sleep well. You can find out what’s causing your insomnia in both your body and your mind so you can get the sleep you need to heal and recover.
Feel free to download a copy of my free ebook “5 Little-Known Reasons High Achievers Can’t Sleep (and how to fix it)” from my website www.TheCompleteSleepSolution.com.
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Sunday Jan 10, 2021
Sunday Jan 10, 2021
I’m Na’Kole Watson, The Life Snatcher, a certified suicide prevention specialist and proud life survivor. I supply prevention resources, tools and strategies to influencers, community allies and people wrestling with suicide ideation. As a village, we deliver the support and guidance that those who are suffering need to save themselves and live a life free of unresolved pain and hopelessness.
Sometimes our thoughts push us further in life. Other times, they hold us back. But sometimes, they try to kill us. Join us as we discuss the truth about how destructive our thoughts can be. Step into the mind of a woman who has survived multiple attempts to end her life, and learn how to conquer destructive thoughts before they conquer you!
Na'Kole's 3 top tips:
1. Break the stigma in your mind about your mental health journey
2. Stand up for yourself and don't allow people to say demeaning things to you in regards to your mental health journey
3. Find a stable and secure middle ground between not wanting to live and not wanting to die so that you can go on to live a life you may have never thought possible
Na'Kole's offer is The Ultimate Suicide Prevention Guide. It’s available at .
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Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Saturday Jan 09, 2021
Tomás Garza used to be an expert at not listening to himself. In a decades-long series of toxic career moves, he suffered and routinely failed to show up as a fully authentic human.
A violent car accident in 2013 changed everything. From hospitalization to learning to walk again to navigating a whole new field of career possibilities, Tomás has learned some critical lessons about truly showing up for yourself.
These days Tomás is a Meditation Instructor, Author, Media Producer and Host of the podcast “Decide to Transform.” He invites you to embark on the journey of self mastery by showing up for yourself.
Tomás' 3 top tips:
- A successful meditation can be as short as one breath.
- Every moment of every day we make a decision. Choose for your Self.
- Life is a playground--if you allow it to be.
Email: tomas@tomasgarza.com
Facebook: Tomás Garza
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Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
With 11 years of experience working with teenagers in recovery at MaryHaven Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, Jennifer Belému brings a unique and vital perspective to Heartland High School as Student Engagement Coordinator.
Most importantly, however, she is a living example of thriving in recovery. Jen's passion for healthy, productive and meaningful personal growth is evidenced in everything she has done over the last 21 years in sobriety. Jen is committed to supporting students' recovery process through diverse avenues such as nutrition education, therapeutic community development, and positive social activities.
IG: recovery_coach_jen
FB: Jennifer Prince Belému
Email: jbelemu@gmail.com
@HappyGutsWithBurpsAndBubbles On Facebook
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
In Bernadette's words
We hide our true self many times. Hiding through bad behaviour, bad words which hurts others and ourselves, addiction on different levels even through crime? But what if: we have not to hide anything from us not even from yourself?
What if...be simply yourself would be a key for true sobriety?
Bio
The creative all-rounder worked successfully in different working fields in Austria and abroad. By her interest in corporate communications, marketing, human resources and many other areas of business, she has appropriated an enormous amount of knowledge more than 35 years.
Internationally active as holistic trainer in health, nutrition and mental health with exceptional holistic resilience methods. Founder of „iMM – intuitive mentoring method and 1-min-coaching-to-go“, a further development of NLP, as well as „ORINITION® - n(fl)ourish soul.mind.body.“ – an innovative nutrition work of (re-) membering our own body intelligence.
Master’s degree in health management with focus on public health. International PhD & research in the fields of health communication with focus on neuro/psycho linguistics combined with neuroplasticity and health economics.
Global Author Award 2018 / Nominatee NLP Award in Research 2019 in London.
http://www.firstaidsoul.com/ - my book serie
The other book about the addiction-no addiction-method will be released in 2021!
My current book “disrupt everything and how beLIEves shape our world” will be released in September 2020!
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Jason B. Kendrick is a Communications and Transformation Specialist, Author, Speaker, Reiki Master, Heart Core Communications Trainer and Heart Centered Living Practitioner. He offers himself to the world in Love and Service to cultivate Peace, Love and Joy within all he works with.
In Jason's words: Healthy Connection is the key to a healthy life and healthy sense of self… It is the lack of healthy Human connection in the world that is leading to the sky-rocketing addiction and suicide rates. I am a Communication and Intimacy Coach for Singles, Couples and Businesses. My main desire is to help heal the Father/Son relationships in this country and the world.
Jason's 3 top tips
- Awareness and Education about Nice Guy and Superwoman Syndrome
- How to be present and Listen in a healthy Heart Centered way
- Healthy Masculinity is not what we were taught and it is the key to healing this world.
www.instagram.com/Jasonbkendrick
www.Facebook.com/Jasonbkendrick1
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Guna is a Post-Traumatic Growth Coach. She is passionate about healing the root cause of physical and mental suffering: simple and complex trauma. She has supported her clients on their way out of depression, anxiety, addictions, abusive relationships and autoimmune diseases by working with simple and complex trauma in a gentle and holistic way at the subconscious mind and body level.
Her experience is that anyone who is willing to be free and to heal can do it. She supports individuals in taking back the responsibility and response-ability for their health by doing the trauma work.
In Guna's words:
I specialize in gentle and holistic trauma work. I help people to recover from simple and complex trauma so that they can set themselves free from all limitations on the level of body and subconscious mind. As we heal trauma we connect to self and others at a deep level, we own our story, learn to love ourselves, we discover our purpose, we quit surviving and start living, we become mentally and phisically healthy, we become struggle and abuse repellant. This all takes place as we set ourselves free from limiting beliefs, harmful subconscious patterns and any addictive tendencies, be it codependency, substance or behavioural addiction. Multidimensional trauma work allows us to be free at all levels.
We usually don’t have explicit memories of the events that have left us traumatised to the extent of impacting our brain development and our nervous system. However, we have implicit memories, our body remembers, our subconscious mind has stored the events and consequently organised adaptive patterns and beliefs to protect us. Implicit memories of trauma show up in the form of reactions (mental and physiological) that used to be adaptive but are now plain harmful and self-sabotaging. Healing trauma is the only way to change the subconscious patterns and limiting beliefs permanently.
3 Steps towards freedom:
1st step: awareness and knowledge, with bravery and honesty eradicating denial, finding and owning blind spots and limiting beliefs;
2nd step: work on all levels, all dimensions (body, mind and spirit); releasing trauma from the tissues and subconscious mind, releasing emotional baggage, forgiveness work, and restoring the trust and safety.
3rd step: keep on working on your growth, again and again, the limit is the sky, the work will never be finished, if you stop growing you don’t stay there, you either grow upwards or fall backwards, up to you which direction.
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You know that you have healed trauma when you become genuinely grateful that it has happened, for where it has brought you and what it has given to you. That is the post-traumatic growth, when you are no longer a victim, nor a survivor, but a success. When you start living instead of surviving. And that is just the beginning. You discover your true self, you find your purpose and start living up to your potential. You don’t know what is ahead but you are excited about it.
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
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Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Tamar Medford is a performance consultant, best-selling author, host of The Road to Health podcast, and champion for people who suffer from addiction. Since overcoming her 20-year battle with drugs, alcohol and obesity in 2012, Tamar is on a mission to help people recognize their addictive patterns and break free from them. She empowers others to live up to their true potential while meeting the challenge of change.
Tamar's 3 top tips
- People can have a great upbringing and still fall prey to addiction.
- You have to own that you have created your own life so this also means you have the choice to control what happens in your future.
- Realize that what you perceived as your biggest failure could end up being your greatest asset. Living a life of addiction and coming out of it alive has now allowed me to help empower others to do the same.
Tamar has a free Wake Up on Fire Workshop for everyone to join if they would like. www.theroadforward.ca
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