Welcome to The Work IN!

Ericka Thomas 6/28/21 Ericka Thomas 6/28/21

Sugar Addicts Anonymous: Break your sugar addiction and feel better

The standard American diet has its foundation in sugar addiction. Sugar toxicity is the root cause of the epidemic of metabolic syndrome, prediabetes and non alcoholic fatty liver disease in this country. It’s time for an intervention.

Ericka Thomas 6/21/21 Ericka Thomas 6/21/21

What is Healthy? Who’s guiding you?

What you’ll find throughout this podcast are ways to improve overall health and wellbeing in 3 basic categories, physical, mental and emotional, and how those things connect with the health of our nervous system and stress response. That seems like such a simple thing to do. And Maybe it would be if it weren’t for the fact that no one really knows what being healthy really means.

Ericka Thomas 6/14/21 Ericka Thomas 6/14/21

Yoga Snacks: Snack on movement all day long

Even when you can’t get to the gym for that HIIT class or your favorite 90 minute vinyasa, you can still snack on movement throughout your day every day.

Ericka Thomas 6/7/21 Ericka Thomas 6/7/21

4 Reasons Yoga Works for Depression & Anxiety

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15 to 44.3. Nearly half of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with anxiety disorder as well. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the US affecting over 40 million people while only 35% of those seek treatment. An even more disturbing statistic is 25% of children are affected. Today I want to highlight 4 things that are baked into a yoga practice that make it a highly effective tool beyond “regular” exercise for relieving depressive symptoms and anxiety.

Ericka Thomas 5/31/21 Ericka Thomas 5/31/21

The Happy Belly Kitchen

Ericka Thomas 5/24/21 Ericka Thomas 5/24/21

Freeze: The many faces of overwhelm

The Freeze state is part of the parasympathetic side of our nervous system. It can be a little confusing because social engagement and calm also is parasympathetic and we think of freeze as bad and social engagement as good. So today we’re going to work IN to the freeze state and talk about what it is, what it’s purpose is, what it looks like and feels like in humans and how we can safely move out of that state if we find ourselves stuck there.