Less Stress In Life
Welcome to Less Stress in Life—the podcast dedicated to helping you navigate life with greater ease, energy, and balance. In our Empowered Wellness series, we share practical tools, expert insights, and meaningful conversations designed to support your journey toward feeling more in control and at peace in your everyday life.
Hosted by Deb Timmerman, a registered nurse and reflexologist; Susie Marsh, a social worker and professional organizer; and Lindsay Vertalka, a physical therapist, we bring a unique blend of perspectives to help you move through life—literally and figuratively—with more confidence, grace, and vitality.
Whether it’s finding calm in chaos, creating supportive spaces, or building strength and resilience, we’re here to guide you every step of the way. Join us to discover how small shifts can lead to big changes, helping you live with less stress and greater ease.
Episodes
96 episodes
Are My Thoughts and Feelings Causing My Pain?
In this episode of the Empowered Wellness series, we explore how thoughts, emotions, and past experiences influence physical pain. Our hosts—Deb Timmerman RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB, Susie Marsh, LBSW, and Lindsay Vertalka, MSPT discuss the ...
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Episode 4
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The Impact of Stress and Anxiety on Pain and Healing
In this episode of the Empowered Wellness Series, Deb Timmerman RN, Lindsay Vertalka MPT, and Susie Marsh LBSW discuss how chronic stress and anxiety affect the body’s ability to heal. Learn how the nervous system reacts to stress, why it can l...
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Episode 3
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Taking a Holistic Approach to Health
In this episode, we dive into the challenges practitioners face in today’s healthcare system, including time constraints and limited communication, which hinder holistic patient care. Our co-hosts—Deb Timmerman, RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB,&nbs...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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Welcome to the Empowered Wellness Series
Meet three passionate clinicians—Lindsay Vertalka, MPT; Susie Marsh, LBSW; and Deb Timmerman, RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB come together to guide you on a journey toward greater well-being. In this special pre-episode, we’ll introduce ourselves, share ...
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Episode 1
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Goals: Working with the End in Mind
Guest Lisa Fisher helps us wrap the 52 Practical Tools for Less Stress in Life series talking about strategies and hacks for successful goal setting. If you're thinking about where you want to go next year, or five years down the road, be sure ...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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EP 51: Tools to Create a Strong Relationship
Our goal is to give you tools and strategies to help you move from being stressed to feeling your best. Our guests today are Dr. Hollie Brown and her partner
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Episode 51
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EP 50: How to Decrease Holiday Clutter
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best. Kim Sneath joined us to take about the stress of holiday clutter. Don't miss her tips for clutter-free gift giving...
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Episode 50
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EP49: Finding Gratitude in Difficult Times
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.This episode's guest is Gael Wood. Gael has over 25 y...
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Episode 49
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EP. 48: Exercising your Gratitude Muscle can Make you Mentally Strong Guest:Sharon Saraga Walters
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.This episode's guest is Sharon Saraga-Walters, Sharon has s...
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Episode 48
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EP: 47 Guest Keenan Hart Using Texting and Positivity for Mental Health Support
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Entrepreneur and mental health advocate
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Episode 47
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EP 46: Hear a Photographer's Journey from Deep Sleep to Gratitude
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Gail Howarth, a long-time resident of West Michigan, is a storyteller and award-winning photographer joins is for a cand...
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Episode 46
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EP 45: Can Gratitude Really Interrupt the Stress We Are Feeling?
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In the month of November, we are exploring the roles gratitude plays in stress and wellbeing. In this episode, we discus...
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Episode 45
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EP: 44 Six Concrete Steps to Beat Stress
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In this episode we share the 6 concrete steps we take our clients through to experience less stress in life.
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Episode 44
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EP 43: Shiatsu Massage for Stress Relief with Guest Raissa Chernushenko
Our guest this episode is Raissa Chernushenko a certified shiatsu massage therapist. She has been certified since 1994, and now offers an expansive list of holistic services and family wellness cl...
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Episode 43
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EP 42: How to Have Less Stress with a Job or Career Change with Sarah-Jane VandenBerg
Our guest is Sarah-Jane VandenBerg, a Career Coach on a mission to bring honesty, truth and joy to the world of careers. She is a Certified Career Development ...
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Episode 42
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EP 41: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence with Susan Omilian, JD
Susan Omilian, JD is an attorney, award-winning author, motivational speaker and recognized national expert who has advocated to end violence against women for the past forty years. In the 1970...
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Episode 41
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EP 40: Guest - Cora Naylor - Releasing Negative Emotions
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Our guest is Cora Naylor, Emotion Code practitioner. Join the conver...
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Episode 40
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EP 39: Listener Questions About Stress
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In this episode we answer questions submitted by podcast listeners around the stress in their lives. ...
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Episode 39
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EP: 38: Stress and Seasonal Transitions
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In this episode we discussed the challenges of seasonal transitions and ways to transition from one season to another wi...
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Episode 38
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Ep: 37 Mindfulness Diminishes Stress
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In this episode we discussed how mindfulness can help you connect to your body, process emotions and decrease stress.&nb...
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Episode 37
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EP 36: Re-Ignite your Creativity
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Our guest is Faigie Kobre, a former early childhood educato...
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Episode 36
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EP 35: A Survivors Guide to Healing
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Our guest is Shenandoah Chefalo. Shenandoah Chefalo
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Episode 35
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EP 33: Brain Changes from Burnout
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Burnout makes us feel physically and mentally exhausted. Research shows it affects our body on the cellular level. Tune ...
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Episode 34
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EP 33: The Dis-Ease of Busy-ness - Managing an Overloaded Schedule
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Busy-ness is not a badge of honor, even though society thinks that busy equals successful. Check out this episode for he...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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EP 32: Tips and Tools for Less Stressful Social Media & Email Experiences
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.In this episode we share tips and tools for less stressful social media time and managing your email inbox.Co-ho...
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Episode 32
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