Podcast appearances and mentions of meredith mcdonough

Chronic pain and under-performing muscles can slow down our exercise and age us faster. Exercise – and specifically strength training – has the power to improve muscle mass and joints. Muscle mass is the number one measurement of quality of life for adults, but we rarely discuss it in the context of functional aging and exercise. Many people are told to work around old injuries, limit themselves and fear the oncoming repeats.  Connecting the dots between muscle mass, the new findings of Pain Science, and finding exercises that work just for an individual's unique body will give us possibilities to challenge ourselves despite old injuries.   This episode includes a lot of interesting information about the new developments in how movement pain should be treated and how we can start to explain that joint damage and pain-free exercise can co-exist.   Things you’ll learn in this episode:  It’s possible that your pain can increase by the things that you encounter on a daily basis: environmental, social and movement cues that are received by your nervous system as dangerous.  Not all pain is as simple as stepping on a tack.  Pain is an individualized experience.  Why you should adequately equip your journey to pain-free movement with knowledge about pain and the brain Like a well-oiled machine, the body needs fine-tuning, and that includes a focus on your muscles. Links of interest: "Pain is far more than just physical, it affects our overall well-being and emotional state and this is completely NORMAL.” Cor-kinetic Pain Science blog https://cor-kinetic.com/   Movement Pathways course  https://jennschwartz.kartra.com/page/registerJune   May 15 episode about the nervous system http://thinkfitbefit.libsyn.com/intutive-awareness-and-reverse-engineering-the-muscle-system   May 22 with Meredith McDonough http://thinkfitbefit.libsyn.com/intutive-awareness-and-reverse-engineering-the-muscle-system   Stanford Pain Medicine  http://med.stanford.edu/pain.html   Dr Sean Mackey MD PhD https://youtu.be/otUVzK4hToM   NPR Hidden Brain  https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718227789/all-the-worlds-a-stage-including-the-doctor-s-office   Pain as a metaphor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819656/   Can your back or muscle pain be related to gluten sensitivity? https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03022513   Jen DeLorenzo Therapy in Virginia  http://www.metrocollaborative.com/jennifer-delorenzo   Gregory Gordon in New York, NY https://www.exercise-intelligence.com/   Biology study guide for Para-sympahatic and Sympathetic Nervous Systems https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-sympathetic-and-parasympathetic-nervous-systems.html   Heart Rate Variability, Start using this to help your training https://miketnelson.leadpages.co/hrv-solution/ HRV is the number that represents the variations in the deep polarization of the heartbeat. Specifically the spike on the wave links when you look at the electrical activity of the heart (QRS waves)   Pain blog and the Traffic Light theory https://painchats.com/doctors-self-management-guide-back-pain/?fbclid=IwAR1sdgQg1Dp3y6OR-8qpDFO_MHrOFkcxzBM7N9_7z5lJtw4iwSfFKZKXFYs

Louisa sat down with Meredith McDonough to discuss what it means to be an empath in today's world and how empathy can be harnessed as a strength. Meredith shares her experience and provides tips for how to navigate life with empathy.   Books referenced: -The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie -A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson   Meredith McDonough is the founder and owner of Higher Vibrations, LLC.  Since 2010 she has built a reputation in her community and has been coined by some as an  “All-Around Healer”.     Find out more about Meredith and Higher Vibrations services here: https://www.highervibrationsva.com/   Meredith’s practice is based upon the belief that all ‘answers lie within’ and that we’re all meant to be human, not perfect. She works intuitively in all of her healing areas including hypnosis and energy healing. With her abilities, she is often able to get to the core of issues vs. the ‘surface symptoms’.    Meredith began her professional path in 2010. Meredith is an Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, Certified Master Hypnotherapist (MHt), the highest certification awarded by the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (NATH). While well-versed in many hypnosis modalities, she has a lot of fun with Past Lives. Meredith abilities allow her to “see” where her clients are in their past life journey while they’re in hypnosis.   Meredith is an alumnus of George Mason University and holds a B.A. in International Affairs. And like many ever since she got the degree, she hasn’t used it.  She is a former college athlete (Hood College) and graduate of Bishop O’Connell High School. Meredith brings an extensive background in public policy with Child Welfare and Veterans Affairs issues as a former intern for U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley.    In her spare time, she is the assistant to the Controller and CFO of a independent private school in Northern Virginia, five days a week. She enjoys reading, traveling, trying ethnic foods, sitting around in sweatpants and doing nothing, reading by her pool, and has a love-hate relationship with exercise. She is owned by her cat Mack Thomas.    Since Meredith is 29 years old, she continues to grow in her abilities and learning about who she is and what she will do next both personally and professionally. At present she is learning from Joy McEntire (Happy Whale Whispers) about DNA and Genetic ‘correction’ on an energetic level. Personally, she hopes to travel to Ireland in Summer 2018 to learn more about her family and where she is from. Although gluten is not her friend, her favorite beers are Kilkenny and Hefeweizen.   To contact Louisa about with questions or comments about the podcast, visit www.spiritualandintuit.com or email spiritualandintuit@gmail.com. 

It all began on a road-trip to Ashland, Oregon. The acclaimed playwright Lauren Gunderson was taking a theater-going excursion with Margot Melcon, then the Director of New Play Development for Marin Theatre Company, in Mill Valley. On the drive, the two began discussing the need for alternative Christmas-themed plays. And having confirmed a mutual appreciation for the works of Jane Austen, soon began imagining a holiday play featuring characters from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” They started sketching out scenes on a series of napkins borrowed from Starbucks, and the result, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, is now gaining rave reviews and playing to sold out houses at Marin Theatre Company, where it continues through December 23. Deliciously funny, and boldly old-fashioned, “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” is a sequel, of sorts. Pride and Prejudice, of course concluded with the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet (here played by Cindy Im) to the wealthy and charming Mr. Darcy (Joseph Patrick O’Malley). Elizabeth, of course, is one of five sisters. As Austen’s story now continues - under the skillfully knowing direction of Meredith McDonough – the happily married Darcy’s have invited three of Elizabeth’s sisters — Jane, Lydia, and Mary — to spend Christmas at Pemberley, their vast country estate, which Elizabeth has boldly adorned with a Christmas tree, a custom not yet common in England. That tree is almost a character unto itself. Sister Jane (played by Lauren Spencer), is now married to the affable Mr. Bingley (Thomas Gorrebeeck), and is, as they say, with child. Lydia (in a powerhouse performance by Erika Rankin) desperately tries to convince her sisters that her absent husband, Mr. Wickham, is not the scoundrel everyone knows him to be, and her duplicitous and hyperkinetic activities over course of the holiday cause at least one of the play’s many comic misunderstandings. The primary focus of the play, it turns out, is Mary Bennet, played with agreeably dry wit and plenty of simmering charm by Martha Brigham. Mary is the sister portrayed in the original novel as talentless and pointedly bookish, though not necessarily very bright. Well, thanks to Gunderson and Melcon, much has changed over the last two years. Mary, clearly, has evolved into a smart, observant and accomplished young woman, though no one seems to have noticed. The absence of the fifth sister, Kitty, by the way, is acknowledged in a funny, slightly “meta” reference toward the end of the play. The tale’s expected love story comes in the form of the painfully awkward bookworm Arthur de Bourgh, a magnificent Adam Magill, whose recently inherited the estate of Darcy’s aunt, the daughter of which, Anne, played by a hilarious Laura Odeh, suddenly appears to interrupt the growing love-at-nerd-sight romance between Arthur and Mary. The dialogue is sparkling and infectious, and the set by Erik Flatmo is a marvel, with snow constantly-falling behind the drawing room window, and even falling from the rafters onto the set itself. Fluffy and sweet as a Georgian Ice, Miss Bennet: Christmas in Pemberley is as captivating and delightful a holiday diversion as one is likely to find – with or without a Christmas tree. ‘Miss Benet: Christmas at Pemberley’ runs Tuesday–Sunday through December 23 at Marin Theatre Company. www.marintheatre.org

The 12th house is our avenue to the universe and the collective subconscious where memories from long ago are contained. My guest today, Meredith McDonough, owner of Operation Higher Vibrations, uses her intuitive ability and training in hypnotherapy to heal our mind and body by accessing these past records. From past life regressions, to weight loss and ending our smoking … Read more about this episode...