Your Kick Ass Life Podcast

Dr. Ellen Vora returns to the podcast! You may remember her from our previous episode about anxiety, insomnia, and depression. You can think of this as part two of the conversation, where we talk a little bit more about anxiety and also dig deeper into hormone health and autoimmune disease.   Ellen Vora, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Listen to gain practical strategies for your holistic health and well-being. In this episode, you’ll hear about: The landscape for healing your gut can be overwhelming - Dr. Ellen explains some steps to get started(12:23) Advice for taking action on causes that matter and balancing the anxiety that usually comes with it (17:35) Some ways to gently nudge yourself back toward better hormone balance (15:16) Dr. Ellen provides an overview of some of the endocrine disrupters we shoul