Harness Your Health

About Harness Your Health

Harness Your Health: Rebuilding Health from the Ground Up is a podcast for individuals and practitioners who feel overwhelmed by conflicting health advice and frustrated by approaches that focus on symptoms instead of systems. Hosted by former oncology nurse and holistic nutrition practitioner Charis Sederberg, this show helps listeners step back from quick fixes and rebuild health through foundational practices that support how the body is designed to heal. Through a balanced lens that bridges conventional medicine and holistic nutrition, each episode offers clarity, context, and practical steps to help you become the builder of your own wellness.

Publisher

Charis Sederberg

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Integrated Bodies Series: Why Naming Your Trauma Isn't Enough to Change, with Jennifer Schlueter

   A woman walks into a session with endometriosis pain at a 10 out of 10. She has done the nutrition changes, the exercise, the journaling, the therapy. None of it has moved the number. One to three hypnosis sessions later, she's sitting at a 2. That's the pattern Jennifer Schlueter kept seeing with the women who came to her for her PhD research on endometriosis, and it points at something most of us were never taught to consider: that a physical symptom can have an emotional root cause, sometimes one that isn't even yours. In this conversation, we get into why naming your attachment style or your nervous system pattern in therapy doesn't always translate into actually changing your life, what's really happening in your brain during hypnosis, and why some of what shows up in a session traces back not to your childhood, but to your grandmother. Jennifer Schlueter is a hypnotherapist with a PhD in spiritual healing who helps people reach their health, wealth, and relationship goals through hypnosis. Born and raised in Germany, she had her own breakthrough in her very first hypnosis session and quit her job shortly after to travel the world. She's now a contributing author to The Integrated Bodies, where she writes about using hypnosis to access the subconscious patterns that keep showing up in the body. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: -What brainwave state hypnosis actually puts you in, and why it's the same state your body naturally passes through every single night. (00:05:45 - 00:06:20) -Why you can understand your attachment pattern and your nervous system completely and still not be able to change your life, and what's missing from that picture. (00:10:50 - 00:12:45) -How a client with a year of chronic back pain had it resolve after a single session, and what that reveals about where pain actually lives. (00:20:45 - 00:21:05) -Why more than 80% of autoimmune conditions show up in women, and what Jennifer found in common among her endometriosis clients that conventional medicine never asks about. (00:16:20 - 00:19:00) -What it means to find your grandmother's trauma stored in your own body, and how that gets released. (00:19:50 - 00:20:25) -The three places Jennifer says an emotional root cause can come from, and why your childhood is only one of them. (00:18:20 - 00:18:35) -What to actually expect walking into a hypnosis session for the first time, whether you do it in person or from your own couch. (00:09:40 - 00:10:30) RESOURCES MENTIONED Jennifer Schlueter Website: www.mindyoursubconscious.com (http://www.mindyoursubconscious.com) Jennifer Schlueter Instagram: www.instagram.com/dr.jenniferschlueter (http://www.instagram.com/dr.jenniferschlueter) CONNECT AND SUPPORT THE SHOW This is the fourth in a series of interviews with the women contributing to The Integrated Bodies, so follow the podcast to get the rest as they come out. If this conversation was useful to you, the most helpful thing you can do is rate and review the show and share it with someone who needs it.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   The Integrated Bodies Series: What the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain Actually Means for Your Body, with Jess Mather

   A woman in her 30s had already been told she needed knee surgery. Getting it scheduled in Canada was going to take too long, so she was looking at flying to a clinic in Pennsylvania and paying close to $10,000. Before any of that, she started working with Jess Mather on what's called prehab. Jess never told her she'd avoid the operating room but instead she did slow, paced strength and movement work with her, session by session. And guess what, the surgery never happened. Jess didn't start out planning to work this way. Early in her career, in a physical therapy setting, she was trained to push a tough, previously shot patient into painful knee extension after a total knee replacement and watched him cry. That moment stuck with her, and she built her entire practice around never doing that to another person. What she developed instead is something she calls the PPP method, a way of looking at pain through the psychological, physiological, and physical pieces that are almost always tangled together, and that's the backbone of this conversation. Jess Mather is a strength and rehab professional and telehealth practitioner who has run her own virtual practice for over a decade, working mostly with clients carrying chronic pain and chronic conditions like chronic fatigue, helping them rebuild both strength and trust in their body's own resiliency. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: - The three-part PPP method Jess uses with every client, and the one-sentence reframe she teaches people to use instead of asking "what if this never gets better." (00:05:40 - 00:09:15) - Why checking and re-checking whether the pain is "still there" can actually make it worse, and what Jess tells clients to do instead. (00:12:30 - 00:14:10) - The full story of the client who avoided a $10,000 surgery and a flight to another country, and what her sessions with Jess actually looked like. (00:17:05 - 00:20:45) - Why a man who moved beautifully on every physical assessment was still in pain, and what changed in just two sessions once the conversation shifted. (00:24:20 - 00:27:50) - The reason Jess believes moving at the pace of the body is always faster in the long run, even when it looks slower at first. (00:29:10 - 00:31:00) - How her six-week virtual coaching program works, and what it actually takes to go from barely walking to kettlebell swings and loaded squats. (00:33:15 - 00:36:40) RESOURCES MENTIONED Jess Mather's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWnsetR8FA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWnsetR8FA) Jess Mather's Website: https://rebuildingbody.com (https://rebuildingbody.com) Jess Mather's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liverehabited/ (https://www.instagram.com/liverehabited/) CONNECT AND SUPPORT THE SHOW This is the third in a series of interviews with the women contributing to The Integrated Bodies, so follow the podcast to get the rest as they come out. If this conversation was useful to you, the most helpful thing you can do is rate and review the show and share it with someone who needs it.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   The Integrated Bodies Series: How Gina Marie Boyd Survived Burnout to Build a Whole-Person Health Framework

   Gina Marie Boyd was president of a company managing an IPO when her life fell apart. A few weeks earlier, a woman she'd met by chance in a coffee shop had told her, "I'm in AA. If you ever need anything, call me." Driving home after her lowest point, Gina had one clear thought: I'm not going to survive the next one. That's when she reached for the number. What came next wasn't a straight line to wellness. It was two years in sweatpants reading everything she could find on spirituality, Ayurveda, neuroscience, and integrative medicine, because none of the professionals she saw were looking at the whole picture. Her doctor checked her labs without asking about stress. Her therapist and psychiatrist diagnosed her without asking about her diet or lifestyle. She was living inside all of it at once, and no one was treating her like a whole person. She eventually went back to school and is now an integrative health practitioner, finishing a PhD in transpersonal counseling, and a contributor to the upcoming Integrated Bodies book. This conversation is about what she built instead: Realign, a whole-person framework that looks at body, mind, and meaning together. It's also about why your nervous system doesn't care about your ten-minute meditation if the other twenty-three hours and fifty minutes of your day are chaos. We get into the three questions Gina uses to get underneath a symptom, why some very common symptoms aren't normal just because they're common, and what it means to stay in the room at your doctor's appointments and take an active part in your own care. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: The three questions Gina asks before treating any symptom as a fixed diagnosis, and why skipping them means you outsource your own body to someone else's guess. (00:06:10 - 00:08:40) Why your nervous system isn't regulated by the meditation you did this morning, but by the other twenty-three hours and fifty minutes you didn't think about. (00:14:20 - 00:17:05) The real reason Western medicine splits mind from body, and what a 17th-century mathematician's deal with the Catholic Church has to do with your last doctor's visit. (00:19:30 - 00:22:15) What happened when Gina stopped treating every text and email as an emergency, and why that one change mattered more than any supplement. (00:17:40 - 00:18:50) How to tell if your doctor relationship is a red flag, and what it actually looks like to ask for something different instead of settling. (00:25:10 - 00:27:00) Why Gina sometimes tells clients who want ayahuasca to wait, and what "less is more" means when someone is reaching for the most extreme option available. (00:33:15 - 00:35:00) RESOURCES MENTIONED Gina Marie Boyd: https://www.ginaruccione.com/ (https://www.ginaruccione.com/) (https://www.ginaruccione.com/) CONNECT AND SUPPORT THE SHOW This is the second in a series of interviews with the women contributing to The Integrated Bodies, so follow the podcast to get the rest as they come out. If this conversation was useful to you, the most helpful thing you can do is rate and review the show and share it with someone who needs it.

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