Greatest Hits: Six Steps to Radical Healing and Living Wild & Well with Dani Williamson

Dani Williamson joins me today to talk about overcoming past childhood trauma and share her six steps to radical healing and living wild and well. 
Dani’s six steps to radical healing and living wild and well

Eat well

Sleep well

Move well

Poop well

De-stress well

Cultivate community well


About Dani Williamson:
Dani Williamson (MSN, FNP) owns Integrative Family Medicine and Wild & Well a Wellness Emporium in Franklin, TN. She focuses on gut health, autoimmune thyroid diseases, and hormone and adrenal health with her patients. Her approach embodies a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual process to healing. 
Dani is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner programs. She is on the board of the Middle Tennessee chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and believes strongly in addressing issues of adverse childhood trauma and its relation to overall long-term health conditions. 
Her first book Wild & Well Dani’s Six Commonsense Steps to Radical Healing was released on November 9, 2021, by Morgan James Publishing.
In this episode:

The first time in 24 years that a doctor ever spoke to Dani about her diet. (2:43)

How Dani helps men and women heal decades of chronic lifestyle disease. (4:32)

Why Dani always incorporates the Aces questionnaire with all her new patients. (7:23)

How the Aces questionnaire came about. (9:43)

How Dani healed her trauma. (13:46)

Where Dani starts with helping her patients. (16:10)

Addressing the trauma will change the trajectory of the whole family. (17:05)

What EMDR and EFT are. (17:17)

Dani breaks down each of her six steps: 


Eat well (19:40)

Move well (22:32)

Sleep well (23:24)

Poop well (25:46)

De-stress well (26:55)

Cultivate community well (30:08)


The seven foods to be eliminated for healing. (34:10)

What inspired Dani to write Wild and Well? (38:50)

 
Dani’s quotes:
“Don’t you know your diet controls your disease?” (2:53)
“What’s at the end of your fork could heal you or kill you.” (3:13)
“What affects you before the age of 18 can set you up for a lifetime of chronic disease.” (3:43)
“When you address the trauma, you change the trajectory of the entire family.” (17:05)
“If you think the food industry has your health in mind, you are sadly mistaken.” (21:25)
“If you don’t cook, I can’t help you get well because cooking is self-care.” (22:03)
“Automate, eliminate, and delegate everything you can in your life so that your vessel is filled up and you’re not pouring from an empty vessel.” (27:48)
 
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