E30 - Dr. Deanna Minich, PhD: How to Unlock Your Creativity & Heal by Awakening Your Inner Artist

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This week we're joined by nutrition scientist and author Dr. Deanna Minich, PhD to go deep on the science of creativity and how we can use it to heal ourselves from the inside out. Dr. Minich opens up about her relationship to artistry: from growing up a perfectionist, to using painting to heal her reproductive health issues. She gets specific on the tools you can use to tap into your inner artist and make everyday moments of your life more creative. 

She and Dr. Ramsey also discuss spirituality, revealing the importance of integrating 'spiritual fitness' into our daily rituals. She shares her perspective on merging science and spirituality. 

They explore the science of polyphenols, phytonutrients, and the importance of eating the rainbow.

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0:00 Intro

3:42 Being Grounded in Creativity

7:27 Getting Beyond the Box of Perfectionism

14:08 How to Unlock Your Inner Artist: The Seven Creatives 

16:53 Making Your Every Day More Creative 

21:30 Heart Brain Coherence 

23:06 Looking at It In a New Way: Get Symbolic

26:42 How to Follow Our Own Knowing & Merging Science & Spirituality 

36:13 Defining Spirituality

38:00 Growing Up Catholic & Looking Up to Nuns

44:29 Using Rituals & Scents to Go Inward

51:16 Polyphenols & Phytonutrients

58:06 Proper Preparation for Foods & Eating the Rainbow

1:09:35 Improving Our Spiritual Fitness

1:14:13 Conclusion

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Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, CNS, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, teacher, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries.

Throughout the years, she has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™), which has now become oriented towards groups, workshops, and retreats. She is the author of six consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences (nutrition focus) from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999). For a decade, she was part of the research team led by the “father of Functional Medicine,” Dr. Jeffrey Bland, and has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine, as well as on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Since 2013, she has been part of the faculty for the Advanced Practice Module in Environmental Health offered by the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been teaching a graduate level course in metabolic detoxification at the University of Western States. Over the decades, she has taught thousands of nutrition classes for health coaches, fitness trainers, and healthcare professionals, including for programs offered by the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy, and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

She is passionate about helping others to live well using therapeutic lifestyle changes that impact their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Website: https://deannaminich.com

https://www.instagram.com/deannaminich/

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