Retrain the Brain for Health
Join your host, Madeleine Lowry, to learn how advanced neural retraining methods can accelerate healing from chronic health issues. Hear how retraining your brain can improve mood, sleep, energy levels, digestion, detoxification, immune function, hormonal balance, and resolve sensitivity reactions.
Discover the latest energy-psychology method, the MAP Method, described as a quantum leap over EFT and EMDR. Each episode focuses on a specific health issue, a client story, or a practitioner's perspective on neural retraining. Formerly known as the Flourish with Functional Nutrition podcast (episodes 1-28).
Now available on Amazon Music.
Episode 75: MAP for Emotional and Physical Weight with Jelena Katić Ujević
Join me for episode 75 where we hear from Jelena Katić Ujević, MAP Coach and Trainer for the MAP Coaching Institute, about her new program for emotional and physical weight. Hear about the insights she gained by working with clients to achieve weight loss by processing unresolved painful emotions. Learn more about the role of the stress response in weight gain and loss, and why loving yourself may be the necessary precursor to making healthier choices. Read more
Episode 74: MAP for Chronic Pain - Client Stories
Join me for episode 74 where I will talk about how and why we can retrain the brain for chronic pain symptoms. This includes back pain, joint pain, muscle aches, headaches, migraines, scar pain or pain from old injuries, and pain from conditions like arthritis and fibromyalgia. I will describe some examples of this with my clients, and my own stories of pain relief as well. I will talk a little bit about the MAP Program for Chronic Pain, and how it can be used alongside live sessions with a practitioner. Read more

Episode 73: MAP for Self-Healing - Tess's Story
Join me for episode 73 where we hear from my client, Tess, about her experiences with the MAP Method over 4 months, and how MAP has helped her to overcome her sensitivities to smells, chronic headaches, IBS, repetitive negative thoughts and improved her bloodwork. Hear how she came to MAP already understanding the connection between trauma and chronic illness, and how MAP sessions proved more effective than other modalities she had tried including DNRS, EMDR, Safe and Sound, Somatics, and more. Read more

Episode 72: Getting Ready for Your First MAP Session
Join me for episode 72 where I will talk about how to prepare yourself for your first MAP session. I will go over the most important step, which is to watch the 15-minute preparatory video, and the flow of the first session as well as some common concerns about the MAP process. Read more

Episode 71: How to Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body
Join me for episode 71 where I will talk about how to use your mind to optimize the healing capacity of your body. These are practices that you can pursue on your own, outside of MAP sessions, that are complementary to MAP or any other form of neural retraining.
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Episode 70: Understanding MAP Part II with Dr. Alia Paquette
Join me for episode 70 where my client, Dr. Alia Paquette, joins me again to ask even more questions about the MAP Method and how it works. Having had 20 or more MAP sessions herself over the last 2 years, she is well acquainted with the Method. To hear her story about how MAP Method sessions have helped her through traumatic times, including a bout of pancreatic cancer, please listen to my conversation with her in episode 67.
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Episode 69: MAP for Chronic Illness - Susan's Story
Join me for episode 69 where we talk with my client, Susan, about her experiences with the MAP Method and how MAP helped her to overcome 10+ years of chronic illness. Hear how she came to understand that there was a trauma connection and how MAP Method sessions proved more effective than other modalities she tried including somatic work, counseling, EMDR or tapping.
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Episode 68: Understanding the MAP Method with Dr. Alia Paquette
Join me for episode 68 where my client, Dr. Alia Paquette asks her pressing questions about the MAP Method and how it works. Having had 20 MAP sessions herself over the last 2 years, she is well acquainted with the method. To hear her story about how MAP Method sessions have helped her through tough times, including a battle with pancreatic cancer, please listen to my conversation with her in the previous episode.
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Episode 67: MAP for Serious Illness - Alia's Story
Join me for episode 67 where we talk with my client, Dr. Alia Paquette, about her experience with the MAP Method and how MAP supported her through a harrowing 1 ½ year journey with pancreatic cancer, from diagnosis to surgery, ensuing complications, and painful recovery. Hear how she incorporates MAP sessions as a part of her self-care routine, along with acupuncture, and why she calls it “EMDR on steroids.”
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Episode 66: MAP for Mindbody Health - Josie's Story
Join me for episode 66 where we talk with my client, Josie, about her experience with the MAP Method and what she has learned about how working with the mind impacts emotional, mental, and physical health. Hear how the benefits she experienced have even extended to her relationships, and her role as a parent, and how she used the MAP for Sensitivities Program for food and mold sensitivities. Read more

Episode 65: Meet Sofie Hon - MAP Instructor and Practitioner
Join me for episode 65 where we talk with Sofie Hon, a top MAP Method™ coach in Singapore, and an instructor for the MAP Coaching Institute. Hear about her work with the MAP Method and how she aspires to create a ripple effect by training leaders who then improve the lives of those around them and how her work as a MAP trainer supports students who seek to certify in the MAP Method.
Episode 64: MAP for Finding Your Authentic Self
Join me for episode 64, where I talk about the relationship between finding your true nature and why it is often part of the work of recovering from chronic illness. I will discuss how we use the MAP Method to address blocks and barriers you may have developed to your authentic self.
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Episode 63: MAP for Chronic Symptoms - Wendi's Story
Join me for episode 63 where we talk with my client, Wendi, about her experience with MAP Method sessions for chronic gut and immune issues and severe headaches. Hear about her experience and how her physical symptoms improved along with other positive benefits including more mental clarity and focus, personal insights and an improved sense of empowerment.
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Episode 62: MAP for Changing Your Relationship to Illness
In episode 62, I’m going to talk about why your relationship with illness can actually be hindering your recovery. This is a concept that is part of my new program, MAP for Self-Healing. I call it Changing Your Relationship to Illness, and although the stress of chronic symptoms and health issues will be the subject of this podcast episode, the same principle applies to any difficulty you face.
Episode 61: MAP for Personality Traits that Predispose to Chronic Illness
In episode 61, I’m going to describe the personality traits that predispose to chronic illness. These include being a people-pleaser, caretaker, over-achiever, conflict-avoider, perfectionist, overly responsible, and other self-sacrificing and emotionally-repressive tendencies.
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Episode 60: MAP for Emotional Causes of Illness
In episode 60, I’m going to describe the science, the biochemistry, behind mindbody medicine, and how working with the emotions has an impact on chronic illness. This is based on the groundbreaking work of Candace Pert, PhD as explained in her book, Molecules of Emotion.
Episode 59: MAP for Autoimmunity and CFS - Joe's Story
Join me for episode 59 where we talk with my client, Joseph Ng, about his experience with the MAP Method for symptoms of autoimmunity and CFS. Hear about his experience with many other methods including: DNRS, EMDR, CFS coaching, talk therapy, EFT/tapping, as well as naturopathic and conventional medicine approaches.
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Episode 58: MAP for Sleep with Dr. Jenna Foster
Join me for episode 58 where we talk with my fellow MAP Practitioner, Dr. Jenna Foster, about the MAP Method for sleep issues. Jenna has a PhD in Sociology and Social Psychology and she joins us from her office in Pahoa, on the Big Island of Hawaii. We discuss her background and how she became a MAP practitioner, how she works with clients and how we can use the MAP Method to resolve sleep issues including: trouble falling asleep, interrupted sleep patterns, nightmares and bad dreams, waking in fear or panic, and insomnia.
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Episode 57: MAP for Food and Chemical Sensitivities - Geri's Story
Join me for episode 57 where we talk with my client, Geri Destasio, about the MAP Method for chronic pain, and food, chemical and environmental sensitivities. She describes her experiences with the MAP for Sensitivities Program and how working with a program differs from live sessions over Zoom.
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Episode 56: MAP and Energy Medicine with Cilla Whatcott, CCH, PhD
Join me for episode 56 where we talk with Cilla Whatcott, my client and Classical Homeopath, about the MAP Method and her experience with MAP sessions. Hear how she describes the impact it has on trauma and the role that trauma has in health. We discuss the MAP as an energy modality and applications for anxiety, PTSD, depression, fears and phobias.
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Episode 55: MAP for Anxiety - Client Stories
Join me for episode 55 where I will discuss how we use the MAP Method of advanced neural retraining to resolve long-standing patterns of anxiety. Hear about Alex and how generalized anxiety can be associated with gut issues. Listen to Carter’s experience of acute anxiety and how early life trauma can predispose us to panic attacks. We’ll also talk about Andy and how complex factors can promote anxiety including perfectionism, empath tendencies, and anxiety about anxiety.
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Episode 54: MAP for Obsessive Thoughts and Anxiety - Lea's Story
Join me for episode 54 where we will talk to my client, Lea Pandolfi, about her experience with MAP sessions. Hear how she learned about the MAP Method from her functional medicine practitioner, and why she decided to try it for relationship OCD, and anxiety. Listen to her comparison of the MAP Method to EMDR, tapping and talk therapy and why she recommends MAP for “anyone experiencing anything.” Read more
Episode 53: MAP for Hypothyroidism and Food Sensitivities - Frances' Story
Join me for episode 53 where we will talk to Frances Carney, my client from Australia. Hear how she learned about the MAP Method from her doctor, and why she decided to try it for low thyroid function, brain fog, muscle tension, and food sensitivities. Listen as she describes the emotional, mental and physical improvements she experienced even after the first session, and why she says: “Nothing else has given me similar results.” Read more
Episode 52: MAP for Painful Memories - Client Stories
Join me for episode 52 where I will talk about using the MAP Method of advanced neural retraining to resolve painful emotional memories. We’ll hear about Nathan who was teased and humiliated for years at school, Patricia who was threatened at gunpoint, Ava who had experienced verbal and emotional abuse through childhood, and Mindy who felt rejected by her father and step-father.
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Episode 51: MAP for Relationship Stress - Client Stories
Join me for episode 51 where I will talk about using the MAP Method of advanced neural retraining to resolve relationship issues. We’ll hear about Scott who had a complex relationship issue with his sister-in-law, Shelly who struggled with poor treatment from her mother-in-law, Hallie who had friction with her administrator at work, and Kate who was caring for an elderly parent who was verbally abusive.
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Episode 50: When the Body Says Yes Program with Jelena
Join me for episode 50 where we will talk with Jelena Katić Ujević, a top MAP Method™ coach and instructor from Croatia. Hear about the amazing results she has seen in “When the Body Says Yes” program participants with chronic conditions of all kinds. Hear about a few of the incredible successes from people in the program, some of whom had never done a MAP Method™ session before. Listen until the end to learn about the program structure and options and how you can learn more about the program for yourself!
Episode 49: MAP for Thyroid Health - Melissa's Story
Join me for episode 49 where we talk with my client and fellow Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), Melissa Manning, who was interested in the MAP Method to address hypothyroidism, back pain, digestive function, and sleep issues. Hear about the benefits she experienced from 7 sessions including mental, emotional and physical shifts, and the improvement of her thyroid function. Read more
Episode 48: MAP for Limbic Dysregulation - Tena's Story
Join me for episode 48 where we talk with my client, Tena, who was interested in the MAP Method to address immune and limbic system dysregulation as well as chronic Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), and sensitivities to mold and foods. Hear about the benefits she experienced from four sessions including mental/emotional shifts and improvement of her physical symptoms. Read more
Episode 47: MAP for Immune Dysfunction - Dawn's Story
Join me for episode 47 where we talk with my client, Dawn, who was interested in the MAP Method to address Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), histamine sensitivities, neck and shoulder pain, skin issues, fatigue, mild asthma, and tinnitus. Hear about the benefits she experienced from a set of 6 sessions including the significant reduction of her physical symptoms.
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Episode 46: Meet Sarah Lovett, MAP Practitioner and Psychic
Join me for episode 46 where we talk with my fellow MAP Practitioner, Sarah Lovett, from the Seattle area. Sarah combines a background in psychic healing with advanced neural retraining. Learn more about how she works with clients with past life issues and those that have had psychic awakenings.
Episode 45: MAP for COVID Long - Rachael's Story
Join me for episode 45 where we talk with my client, Rachael from Leicester, England, about her experience with the online, self-paced MAP for COVID program and the improvements she saw in her symptoms and her emotional and mental outlook after 4 weeks. The MAP Method, for those of you who are not familiar, is an advanced method of neural retraining.
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Episode 44: MAP for High Blood Pressure - Derrick's Story
Join me for episode 44 where we talk with my client, Derrick Johnson, about MAP sessions for recurring fears, stomach pain, food sensitivities, and high blood pressure. Hear about his experience with the advanced neural retraining method, called the MAP Method, and how it compares to hypnotherapy. Learn about the emotional, mental and physical improvements he noted after 6 sessions and how early life trauma can set the stage for a compounding belief structure that leads to chronic illness.
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