Welcome

Dr. Barbie Allegretti

Our opening session is hosted by Dr. Barbie Allegretti, a board certified Chiropractic Physician specializing in Functional Medicine. She sees patients in person at Nourished Table and Home in Hinsdale. She also sees patients virtually through an online platform, offering consulting services with Functional Medicine. In this presentation, Dr. Allegretti addresses the realities and possibilities of stress. 

Stress is the body’s normal biological response to stimulus. It gives your system a burst of energy that triggers the natural “fight-or-flight” response, enabling your body to react to situations accordingly. Although it has a bad reputation, stress is actually one of the body’s fundamental survival mechanisms.

Short-term stress (stress that lasts a few minutes to a few hours) can, in fact, enhance one’s performance as well as one’s innate and adaptive immune responses. Acute stress results in physiological, neurological, and behavioral changes. For instance, it activates the body’s hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which releases glucocorticoids, a chemical that promotes energy replenishment and cardiovascular function. In small to moderate doses, stress can strengthen one’s immune system and may help improve a person’s resilience, enabling them to respond to other stressful situations better.

Needless to say, stress isn’t all bad! In small doses—is crucial to survival, and is something you can benefit from.

So how do we find that sweet spot with stress?

Not too much, not too little?

Listen in with Dr. Barbie to gain clarity in navigating the conundrum with stress so that you can show up the way you want to enjoying the life you have.

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Tamara Mannelly

In this session, we will hear from healthy lifestyle advocate, Tamara Mannelly. In today's presentation, Tamara explains how stress can impact/disrupt your (and your whole family's!) hormones and how you can use essential oils to help maintain balance and optimize your health. 

Pull out your notebook and get ready to learn how to combat the daily disruptors to your hormones in natural and completely attainable ways. 

Are you interested in getting started with Essential Oils? Get a free diffuser gift from Tamara when you purchase a Premium Essential Oil Starter Bundle purchase (new accounts only) here!

Erin Bracco

Erin Bracco is the co-founder of Buddha Belly Kids Yoga. For seven years, she was a kindergarten teacher and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in both Elementary and Special Education from Vanderbilt University. Her passion for child development is evident in her teaching style as she helps children foster newfound confidence and body awareness. Erin thrives on helping little humans gain social-emotional learning strategies to explore and make sense of their world. Erin is a RCYT through Yoga Alliance. She has completed her 200hr teacher training at Zen Yoga Garage in Chicago and her 95 hour kids teacher training and partner yoga through Rainbow Yoga. Erin is a consultant for schools implementing yoga and mindfulness, is the lead trainer for Bari Koral Yogapalooza, and has completed coursework with Mindful Schools. She has learned from Zensational Kids, Karma Kids Yoga, and is currently enrolled in the Mindful Schools Mindful Teacher Certification Program.

In this presentation, Erin will teach us how to connect our own emotions to positive movement. Then, she will,  equip us with the tools necessary to teach these strategies to our children as they process big feelings. 

Connect with Erin on Instagram and Facebook!

Farzanah Nasser

Welcome to Day 1 of the Foundation of Women's Wellness Summit! Today, we'll learn about the relationship between gut health and immunity from Dr. Faranah Nasser. She will explain how the gut works and why it is so essential to our health, explore the ways food can be medicine, and also offers suggestions for resetting and relaxing to improve overfall health.  

Faranah is Nutritional Therapist & Functional Medicine practitioner. She helps women get to the root cause of the symptoms they are experiencing to help them live happier and energized lives. Her area of speciality is Autoimmunity (with a focus on Hashimoto's), the gut and the microbiome. In addition to working in a busy clinic, Faranah is always trying to support and help women with free information through her newsletters and social media.

Connect with Faranah on Instagram and Facebook, and learn more by visiting her website!

Hannah Duffy

Welcome to day 1 of the Foundation of Women's Wellness Summit! Today, we'll hear from Hannah Duffy on how to integrate meditation into our daily lives! She will give us practical tips for making this practice part of our routine and then guide us through a short meditation. 

Hannah is a certified meditation coach, and expert design thinking and innovation consultant who loves using her innovative and design expertise to healing, health, and meditation to the stressed-out, skeptical and spiritually curious. She's been meditating every day for the last five years and after listening to her intuition, she left her 9-5 job to re-create her own reality by starting her very own soul-aligned business. She leads a 12-week meditation accountability program called Next-Level Serenity & Soul Meditation Program, to help anyone in need of community, accountability, relaxation, and spirituality, and she also is a design and innovation consultant for high-level spiritual and health-focused leaders. She's super passionate about being unapologetically authentic and trusting our intuition.

Connect with Hannah on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Find her on Clubhouse @hanbans193 and learn more about her mission, vision, and services by visiting her website! 

Taylor Lamb

Welcome to Day 1 of the Foundation of Women's Wellness Virtual Summit! Today, Taylor Lamb will discuss why women's with Endometriosis are turning to CBD, and what to look for in CBD. 

Taylor Lamb is the Co-founder and CMO of the science-backed women's wellness brand, Juna. Since day 1, Juna's goal has always been to help solve real problems women are experiencing by offering natural alternatives vs quick fix pharmaceuticals. The organic, full-spectrum CBD products we have formulated tackle stress, anxiety, sleep, inflammation and even endo pain.

Connect with Juna on Instagram here and with Taylor on Instagram here! 

Learn more by visiting Juna's website and by reading her article on this topic!

Steph Strauss

Welcome to the last session of The Foundations of Women's Wellness Summit, Day 1! In this session, we will hear from Steph Strauss on the Power of Intention Setting. Steph is a certified 200-hr yoga instructor, 100-hr meditation instructor, yoga sculpt instructor, and fitness instructor who strongly believes in the power of setting intentions. Since her mindfulness journey began over 9 years ago, she manifested 5 intentions in her life. After her 4th intention came true, she realized it was time to GO BIG.

Guess what happened? Her 5th and BIGGEST intention yet came true. She’ll be sharing everything about her intention work during this presentation and guiding you through some of her own personal intentions she is working with (and currently manifesting) right now. Her mission is to help you learn to prioritize, take good care of yourself and live a life of intention.

She is a compassionate and dedicated facilitator who creates a safe space for you to manifest intentions, open your heart and connect to yourself on a deeper level. Through joy, expression and her signature WEIRD, she guides and motivates you to unlock energy, reduce stress, and open up to your true and unlimited potential. 

Connect with Steph on Facebook here!

Connect with Steph on Clubhouse:  @stephstrauss 

Steph has generously shared the following discount codes with us:

1 month complimentary access to Chill Anywhere app

PROMO CODE: WomensHealth

Intention Setting Workshop:

50% OFF PROMO CODE: 5INTENTIONS2021