The Calm Collective – a wellness podcast for women
The Calm Collective - a wellness podcast for women
Podcast Description
Co-hosted by Ashlee Livingstone and Colleen Kurtz, experts in wellness, stress management, and finding your calm.
Stress is a normal part of life, but the chronic effects don’t have to be. Join us for raw, relatable conversations as we explore how everything is connected—mind, body, and even the powerful mind-gut connection. We’ll share simple, practical tools to help you move out of survival mode and transform your wellness.
The Calm Collective is your space to pause, breathe, and realign. Ready to feel more calm and in control? Tune in weekly for your wellness.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast centers around themes of stress management, personal wellness journeys, and the mind-gut connection, with episodes featuring discussions like Colleen's transformation from chronic fatigue and Ashlee's exploration of breathwork as a stress-relief tool. Other topics include sustainable lifestyle changes, emotional health, and community support.
Co-hosted by Ashlee Livingstone and Colleen Kurtz, experts in wellness, stress management, and finding your calm.
Stress is a normal part of life, but the chronic effects don’t have to be. Join us for raw, relatable conversations as we explore how everything is connected—mind, body, and even the powerful mind-gut connection. We’ll share simple, practical tools to help you move out of survival mode and transform your wellness.
The Calm Collective is your space to pause, breathe, and realign. Ready to feel more calm and in control? Tune in weekly for your wellness.
What does it really mean to nourish yourself?
If your first thought was food, you're not wrong—but nourishment is so much bigger than what's on your plate.
In this solo episode, Colleen shares her personal health journey from being a chronically sick child with frequent infections and antibiotic use to struggling with endometriosis, severe digestive issues, eczema, cystic acne, PMDD, brain fog, and debilitating fatigue in early adulthood.
After being told time and time again that her labs were ”normal” and leaving appointments with more prescriptions than answers, she discovered something that changed everything: true healing starts with nourishment.
But nourishment isn't just about eating healthy.
Join Colleen as she explores the difference between dieting and nourishing, the obsession and fear often created by the wellness industry, and why functional nutrition looks beyond food to address the whole person.
In this episode, you'll learn:
✨ Why nourishment is about more than calories and macros
✨ The difference between restriction and true nourishment
✨ How stress and nervous system dysregulation impact digestion
✨ Why sleep is one of the most overlooked healing tools
✨ How functional nutrition connects food, lifestyle, digestion, hormones, and energy
✨ Why healing isn't about finding the perfect supplement or diet
✨ How functional lab testing can help uncover the ”why” behind your symptoms
If you've ever felt exhausted, bloated, overwhelmed, frustrated by ”normal” lab results, or stuck wondering why you don't feel like yourself, this episode is for you.
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