Get the truth about colon hydrotherapy from Cathy Basse so you can use colonics safely and effectively for better health.

We track Cathy’s journey to becoming a healer. Her mother’s premature death, when she was 12, and her father’s insistence on healthy food prompted Cathy’s keen interest in medicine and natural healing modalities. Working in a hospital as a nurse, she witnessed the chronic effects of poor food and lifestyle choices. She became passionate about preventing disease rather than treating it, and moved into colon hydrotherapy.

Cathy gives us the lowdown on the benefits of colonics, what compromises our gut microbiome, and how our colon, liver, kidneys, lymph, sexual health, and nervous system are connected. And why regular bowel elimination is the key to achieving our health goals.

Unpacking the history and science of colonics, and debunking common misconceptions, Cathy lays out why the closed system is preferable to the open. Then, walks us through how to find a skilled practitioner, what questions to ask, the best way to prepare, the logistics of a session, and how to optimize our results.

Beyond the physical benefits, we explore the mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of the practice. Helping us understand why it’s called “therapy,” Cathy emphasizes the importance of working with an intuitive practitioner who treats with care and sensitivity.

The big takeaway: Healing isn’t just what we eat or the actions we take, it’s about what we release.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• If your colon is congested, toxins get reabsorbed, putting a strain on vital organs.
• Colon hydrotherapy helps the body keep up with the constant barrage of toxins.
• Colonics help digestion, circulation, immunity, energy, mental clarity, and weight loss.
• The practice supports pelvic and sexual health, to avoid UTIs and prostate issues.
• Go for medical-grade treatments with a qualified practitioner rather than a spa session.
• Choose the closed system to allow the practitioner to do bodywork during the treatment.
• Work with a skilled therapist who remains in the room the whole time.
• How many sessions you need depends on your physical and emotional needs and preferences.

ABOUT CATHY:

Cathy Basse is a licensed colon hydrotherapist certified in integrative bodywork and massage with a practice in Kansas City.

Drawing on her career as a nurse and decades of experience in the healing arts, Cathy combines colonics with energy therapies, Bach Flower Remedies, Reiki, massage, and other therapeutic and intuitive strategies. She helps clients release physically and emotionally to manage stress, reduce pain, improve digestion and elimination, and enhance overall well-being.

Cathy worked with Dr. Andrew Weil in the production of the PBS specials: Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, and has designed programs for other renowned experts in the wellness space.

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Website: https://ahealthtrust.com/

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Tess Masters is an actor, presenter, health coach, cook, and author of The Blender Girl, The Blender Girl Smoothies, and The Perfect Blend, published by Penguin Random House. She is also the creator of the Skinny60® health programs.

Health tips and recipes by Tess have been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, InStyle, Prevention, Shape, Glamour, Real Simple, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Health, Hallmark Channel, The Today Show, and many...

Is the voice in your head on your side? Take back control and drive the conversation to open possibilities and go after what you want.

Is the dominant narrative yours or has it been installed by your family and other influences? I’ll share insights and strategies that my clients find most effective for engaging differently with the inner critic and instigating positive change.

We'll cover sitting in the inquiry, the journey of why, listening to the white space, the golden rule of improvisation, and the power of the pause. Then, we explore how shifting from short-hand to long-hand communication helps manage the conflict and resentment we feel when others fall short or don’t meet our needs.

The words we choose matter. They’re either building a bridge toward our desires or tearing them down. By playing in the promise, changing our state when we feel stuck, owning our superpowers, and leveraging our lessons, we find the balance of what we want and what others want for us.

Upgrade how you speak to yourself, get out of your own way, and own your “It has to be me.”

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• Every choice starts with permission and a conversation with yourself.
• Awareness of your inner dialogue is the first step.
• Is the dominant narrative yours or somebody else?
• Your family knows how to press your buttons because they installed them.
• Listen and pay attention to the white space—what’s not being said.
• Choose to be in your experience, as opposed to on it.
• Feeling stuck? Change your physical state to access yourself differently.
• Making better choices is a process of deciding and re-deciding.

MEET TESS MASTERS:

Tess Masters is an actor, presenter, health coach, cook, and author of The Blender Girl, The Blender Girl Smoothies, and The Perfect Blend, published by Penguin Random House. She is also the creator of the Skinny60® health programs.

Health tips and recipes by Tess have been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, InStyle, Prevention, Shape, Glamour, Real Simple, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Health, Hallmark Channel, The Today Show, and many others.

Tess’s magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and down-to-earth approach have made her a go-to personality for people of all dietary stripes who share her conviction that healthy living can be easy and fun. Get delicious recipes at TheBlenderGirl.com.

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Website:  https://tessmasters.com/

Podcast:  https://ithastobeme.com/ 

Health Programs: https://www.skinny60.com/

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Want to feel more connected in your relationship and have mind-blowing sex that keeps getting better? Justin Patrick Pierce and Londin Angel Winters—life partners, authors, and intimacy teachers—give us a masterclass.

After enduring the usual relationship disappointments in her 20’s and 30’s, Londin wasn’t settling, and got into sacred sexuality. At 24, Justin was on a very different path, albeit a spiritual one. In becoming a couple, they embraced the study and practice together. Then, over a decade, developed their signature system—Yoga Of Intimacy—which they share through private consultations and workshops.

In our conversation, we hear male and female perspectives on what gets in the way of experiencing the love and sex we want. Starting with the traits of an unconscious lover—unaware, reactive, distracted, selfish—we learn how to be more conscious lovers, and seek partners who want to cultivate similar values. Building a relationship this way, you keep attraction and passion alive and growing.

Londin and Justin demonstrate some of the foundational practices they use with their clients to balance expectations, and soften fear and resentment. Then share how to open more trust and intimacy, reignite the fire when the spark dies out, and create the hottest moments of ecstasy.

We get practical tools for communicating what we want without shutting our partner down, celebrating desires that are different, and finding the bridge to meet with excitement.

This episode is about surrendering and showing up fully, moment by moment, and listening to our hearts in the interactions that most of us find the hardest.

Justin and Londin invite us to love like we’re never been hurt, and see how we deny others the things we don’t know how to give ourselves.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• We attract partners who deny us love as much as we deny them.
• Surrendering enables deeper love that’s free from attachment to external outcomes.
• Avoid expectation and resentment. Meet your lover each time as if for the first time.
• The “I See / I Feel” practice helps partners share and grow without reactivity.
• Consciously cultivate polarity to enhance attraction, desire, and passion.
• Balancing desire and equanimity helps us want and allow at the same time.
• The Yoga Of Intimacy provides a blueprint to be a masterful lover.
• Mastery is not a destination, but a commitment to a path that has no end.

ABOUT JUSTIN AND LONDIN

Co-authors of Playing With Fire and The Awakened Woman's Guide to Everlasting Love, Justin Patrick Pierce and Londin Angel Winters are business and life partners, and relationship coaches who teach sacred sexuality with their signature training, Yoga Of Intimacy.

Having studied and practiced sacred intimacy for more than a decade under the tutelage of renowned teachers, Justin and Londin’s system prioritizes practicality over theory. Using a hands-on approach, and incorporating their personal stories, Justin and Londin educate men and women on spiritual and intimate development.

Their students learn to create tangible change in their lives from a couple dedicated to understanding the complex dynamics of modern relationships.

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Playing With Fire: https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-Spiritual-Intimate-Relationship/dp/0986394254/

Over 40 and want more juice and joy in your life? OBGYN and hormone expert Anna Cabeca—The Girlfriend Doctor—gives us the scoop on reclaiming our health, vitality, and sexual fire during menopause and beyond.

Anna’s struggle with infertility, and early-onset menopause, at 39, prompted a global pilgrimage to study alternative healing practices. Combining Western and Eastern medicine optimized her hormones and she conceived naturally at 41. The experience fueled her mission to help other women take control of their bodies.

Anna’s approach is holistic and human—a far cry from the typical “pop a pill or slap on a patch and hope for the best.” It’s about building a vibrant life from the inside out, with nutrition, movement, connection, community, pleasure, and purpose. And, hormone therapy is the icing on the cake!

We go over all the critical things every woman needs to know. How to harness the power of the hormone hierarchy, which adaptogens and supplements actually reduce symptoms, and the importance of gut health, alkalinity, and detox. Anna also spills the secret to getting rid of belly fat, and why bioidentical hormones are the way to go.

The two biggest secrets? Oxytocin… queen of all hormones, and getting serious about your sexual health. Anna lays out the science behind how love, connection, and intimacy are the keys to hormone balance and longevity. We celebrate self-pleasuring, and the best way to alleviate pain during intercourse and eradicate urinary infections and incontinence.

This is a must-listen if you want to age like a goddess and suck the marrow out of life.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• Fixing your hormones takes more than hormones. Nutrition and lifestyle are foundational.
• Bioidentical hormones are superior to synthetic products on offer.
• Reversing early menopause is possible with strategic nutrition and lifestyle changes.
• Cortisol (stress hormone) is the enemy of health and happiness. Regulating it is essential.
• Microdose oxytocin daily by cultivating pleasure and joy to change your physiology.
• Sexual health is critical. Our health span should equal our lifespan and our sex span.
• There’s no age limit on sexual pleasure. Cultivate the sex life you want.
• Self-pleasure is a powerful form of self-care that boosts longevity.

ABOUT DR. ANNA

Anna Cabeca, DO, OBGYN, FACOG is the author of The Hormone Fix, Keto-Green 16, and MenuPause.

Multi board certified, Dr. Anna is a fellow of gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She also holds certifications in functional medicine, sexual health, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

Anna lectures frequently demystifying the complexities of women’s health. A cornerstone of her work is helping women manage stress and cortisol, and leverage oxytocin—the “love hormone” to restore connection, desire, libido, joy, vitality, and sexual pleasure.

Through her practice and research, she developed a line of natural products, including Julva® vulva cream and MightyMaca® Plus, that help women thrive through menopause.

Known as “The Girlfriend Doctor,” Ann is blunt and speaks from the heart, using sassy humor to make health and science relatable and fun.

She lives in Dallas with her daughters, and their extended family of horses and dogs.

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Make sensational vegetarian meals without a lot of fuss with Amy Chaplin—chef and James Beard-award-winning cookbook author.

Amy and I track her food journey, from a childhood in rural Australia raised in a homesteader family that lived off the land and made everything from scratch, to Sydney's food scene and getting into macrobiotics, pastry chef in Amsterdam, caterer in London, and executive chef at New York’s Angelica Kitchen.

Every phase of her evolution, her philosophy has stayed the same: start with quality ingredients, cook with the seasons, keep things simple, and have fun with food.

She takes us through her basics: stock the pantry with staples, grow food for ourselves (even if it’s just a pot of herbs), activate ingredients, combine them for better textures and flavors, elevate quick bowls and salads with a touch of magic, and get creative with your leftovers.

From there, Amy gives us her tips for intuitive cooking—draw inspiration from sources around you, and tap into your environments and moods. She goes on to share how being a mom and cooking for kids has taught her to be even more simple and flexible.

Her approach: Experiment with the ingredients that are speaking to you, listen to what your body and family want, and enjoy the discoveries!

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS

• The pantry is your playground—stock it well.
• Forage your fridge and pantry, and incorporate staples and leftovers for simple meals.
• Eating well doesn’t require fancy tools. Start with a grain, a pot, and an intention.
• Seasonal ingredients deliver economy, simplicity, and fabulous flavor.
• Activate foods for health benefits and slow-prep for better textures and flavors.
• Teas add fabulous flavors, not just in drinks, but to desserts, batters, and baked goods.
• Elevate basic bowls and salads—add a splash of good oil, tamari, toasted seeds, or avocado.
• Leverage clever combinations of nuts and seeds, of whole grains, and complementary flours.

ABOUT AMY

Amy Chaplin is a two-time winner of the James Beard Award, for At Home In The Whole Food Kitchen and Whole Food Cooking Every Day.

As a vegetarian chef and teacher, Amy anchors her approach in inspiration from nature, the benefits of fresh ingredients, and decades of experience working with food around the world.

Her recipes have been featured in Vogue, the Washington Post, T Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Having worked as executive chef at Angelica Kitchen, New York City, and as private chef for individuals, she now cooks with a group of colleagues and dedicated subscribers who join her monthly classes on Substack.

Originally from Australia, she lives with her wife and two sons in a small town in Upstate New York.

CONNECT WITH AMY

Website: https://amychaplin.com/

Substack: https://amychaplin.substack.com/

At Home In The Whole Food Kitchen: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Whole-Food-Kitchen-Celebrating/dp/1645471454/

Whole Food Cooking Every Day: https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Food-Cooking-Every-Day/dp/1579658024/

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Do sugar cravings and food addictions rule your life? Liz, Susan, and Kim share how the 60-Day Reset was the key to breaking cycles of emotional eating and achieving their greatest health.

Susan’s sweet tooth caught up with her and, after “a swift kick” from her doctor, she leaned into her love of cooking, and started eating food that tasted so delicious, the hankering for cookies and ice cream disappeared. The immediate positive changes she saw in her body made staying on the path easy.

Unlike Susan, Liz wasn’t much of a cook. Years of binging on processed foods to cope with her daughter’s murder left Liz obese and unable to participate in family events the way she wanted. Learning to prepare healthy meals gave Liz a sense of pride—she could finally enjoy good food that was also good for her! In her 70s, she feels better than ever.

For Kim, food was the enemy, and with crippling addiction, she couldn’t gain control. At 200 pounds and with serious medical issues, she was living like a hermit, and hadn’t dated in 20 years. She leveraged the nutrition coaching and peer support to lose 65 pounds, and claim the quality of life she wanted.

These ladies lay it all out there: the guilt of eating in secret, the shame spiral of failed diets, the loneliness and limitations of hiding—and the freedom and empowerment they achieved when they chose change and made it happen.

Community support, and the candor and sensitivity of people sharing similar struggles, helped Liz, Susan, and Kim stay on track with better choices. The draw of the vitality they felt was stronger than their previous addictions to food. This seismic shift launched a tsunami of positive changes in their lives.

The extraordinary things that happened when these ladies decided “It has to be me” will blow your mind.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• Being vulnerable and having honest conversations is the path to finding solutions.
• Feeling healthy and vibrant has a ripple effect, opening more opportunities and choices.
• The food and health stories of family members do not have to be yours.
• The key to overcoming food addictions is delicious healthy recipes and community support.
• Food isn’t the enemy. It’s a gateway to awareness, empowerment, joy, vitality.
• Empowerment with food comes in knowing what to eat, enjoying it, and feeling good about it.
• Restriction and deprivation are not sustainable. Self-care and fun in balance yield results.
• Strategic eating enables you to lose weight eating more food, not less.

MEET OUR MEMBERS

Kim Brantley

After working as a court reporter for three decades, Kim became a life coach, and is enjoying her new career as a screenwriter thanks to restoring her health with the 60-Day Reset. Tipping the scales at 200 pounds on a 5' 3" frame, Kim lost 65 pounds, reversed her pre-diabetes diagnosis, and cleared the chronic bronchitis, acid reflux, inflammation, and carpal tunnel syndrome that had plagued her for years. She is thrilled to be feeling healthy and vibrant, and living an active joyful life as she turns 60.

Susan Ryan

After a career in healthcare administration, Susan is enjoying an active retirement visiting local museums, celebrating the performing arts, traveling, and exploring boutique wineries. Following a remodel of her house, she is reincarnating her edible landscape to manageable container gardening. A food enthusiast, she enjoys sharing healthy meals with family and friends. After completing the 60-Day Reset five years ago, Susan aims to emulate the longevity of her mother, who won $10 at bingo the week she passed at 101.

Liz...

Does food empower you or hold you back? I’m diving into how our relationships with food reveal what drives us in achieving our health goals and what gets in our way.

Coaching hundreds of women, I see the same patterns. The beliefs and habits modeled by our parents set up the stories we play out around self-care. Family scripts keep us stuck in the same scenes, which often leads to guilt, shame, and abuse.

Examining our relationships with food opens a portal to understanding choices we make in other parts of our lives. This awareness helps us flip the script and change the dialogue to one that feeds possibilities rather than throws up limitations.

Starting with this conversation helps my clients find the motivation to embrace change and make their health a priority. From there, the secret sauce is community. Women achieve their health goals faster, and with more ease and joy, when they explore their food stories with other women wanting to get healthy, too.

When you add guidance from dietitians who help you craft personalized nutrition solutions, you’re on a sustainable path. That said, it’s delicious food, connection, support, accountability, and community that really make the difference.

We don't get these vital things from solitary interactions with Chat GPT.

Interacting with real people who listen to your whole story helps you drop the one that’s been handed to you, and claim your next “It Has To Be Me.”

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• Many of us have diet culture modeled from a young age, by our parents.
• Getting healthy is more what you add than what you take away.
• Food choices that meet your bio-individual needs take healthy eating to the next level.
• Listen to what your body needs rather than what you mind wants.
• Feed your vitality instead of settling for functionality.
• Look for practitioners who consider your whole story, not just your lab results.
• Invest money in feeling good rather than spending it to cover up that you don’t.
• Don’t let your physical health be the reason you say no.

MEET TESS MASTERS:

Tess Masters is an actor, presenter, health coach, cook, and author of The Blender Girl, The Blender Girl Smoothies, and The Perfect Blend, published by Penguin Random House. She is also the creator of the Skinny60® health programs.

Health tips and recipes by Tess have been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, InStyle, Prevention, Shape, Glamour, Real Simple, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Health, Hallmark Channel, The Today Show, and many others.

Tess’s magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and down-to-earth approach have made her a go-to personality for people of all dietary stripes who share her conviction that healthy living can be easy and fun. Get delicious recipes at TheBlenderGirl.com.

CONNECT WITH TESS:

Website:  https://tessmasters.com/

Podcast:  https://ithastobeme.com/ 

Health Programs: https://www.skinny60.com/

Delicious Recipes: https://www.theblendergirl.com/

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How has food shaped your life? Wendy Hargreaves, journalist and filmmaker, recounts how family dynamics, childhood memories, and work as a restaurant critic led her to comfort eating and yoyo dieting, and shares how she changed her relationship with food and achieved better health.

Growing up on a farm, Wendy learned to cook, to live off the land—and to see food as a reward. Her mother and grandmother baked treats, literally every day. Her dad came home with a chocolate bar tucked inside his evening paper.

Becoming a food writer, she made performative eating an art, dining in glamorous places even if she wasn’t hungry or enthusiastic. Food provided comfort and conflict, but rarely joy.

In her fifties she “flipped the switch,” changing her food story, not through shame or restriction, but with honesty and care. She began nourishing her body consciously, making connections between food and other choices.

Chasing the next hot story didn’t interest her anymore. Remembering that she “spoke country,” Wendy started a media company and radio show to spotlight the stories of everyday people at the sources of food in Australia.

We discuss the importance of owning who you are, and using your unique voice to tell the stories that matter to you. For Wendy, it’s in staying curious, asking questions, being present in relationships, and participating in community that we’ll find the answers and the opportunities.

She says: Get over having to be new. Acknowledge who you’ve learnt from and throw your hat in the ring.

TESS’S TAKEAWAYS:

• Childhood and family dynamics shape eating habits that are hard to break.
• A conscious relationship with food leads to better choices overall and more joy.
• Resist the cult of busy-ness, and take time to be present in your relationships.
• Embrace stillness to take stock of your priorities.
• Take an active part in nourishing, shaping, and celebrating community.
• Lean into curiosity. Keep asking questions to see new possibilities.
• Use your agency, authority, and superpowers to claim what you want.
• For energetic hygiene, choose people who elevate and celebrate you.

ABOUT WENDY

Seasoned food writer, journalist, radio presenter, and filmmaker, Wendy Hargreaves heads up Bread & Butter Media. She and her team at the agency celebrate makers and growers in regional Australia, and their stories, through radio shows, podcasts, print media, and documentaries.

In a career spanning four decades, Wendy has reported on people, places and events in Australia and abroad for some of the nation's biggest media companies. Co-hosting “On The Road Again” on 3AW radio, she showcases rural towns through the lens of roadtrip experiences.

Her work in journalism and media has won multiple awards, including three in the United States for her short films about extraordinary women in hospitality, such as Kate Reid, founder of Lune Croissanterie.

When she’s not in front of a camera or behind the mic, you’ll find Wendy at a pottery wheel making functional pieces for chefs and restaurateurs.

CONNECT WITH WENDY

Website: https://www.breadandbuttermedia.com.au/

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