Paula and Doris welcome Dr. Michelle Greenwell, founder of the Greenwell Center for Holistic Health, dance educator, and Tai Chi teacher, to explore how movement supports emotional well-being. Michelle shares her powerful healing story and guides a simple awareness practice listeners can do anywhere. Together, they discuss how posture, energy, and emotions intertwine, and why mindful movement can ease stress and restore balance. A heart-centered conversation filled with gentle wisdom, practical tools, and hope for anyone ready to reconnect with their body and reclaim calm.
Learn more about Michelle at: https://greenwellcenter.com/dr-michelle-greenwell/

Bonus Episode!
What happens after the podcast ends?
Join Paula, Doris, and Claudia Goetzelmann in this tender after show as they explore how grief, mortality, and gratitude open us to deeper joy. Listen to this 20-minute conversation: After-Podcast with Claudia — Joy, Grief & Permission to Bloom.

Finding Joy in the Mud with Claudia Goetzelmann: Grief, Healing & Transformation

In this heartfelt conversation, we sit down with Claudia Goetzelmann, a holistic and somatic practitioner and Compassionate Inquiry practitioner who guides people through transformation with compassion, courage, and curiosity. Claudia shares her own journey of loss, sitting with grief, transformation, and self-forgiveness, and how practices of presence and compassion can bring us back to our bodies, our breath, and our joy. If you’ve ever felt stuck in the mud of life, wondered how to move through grief, or longed for more peace in your healing journey, this episode will inspire and ground you. Learn more about Claudia at permissiontobloom.org

Holistic Stress Management: Prescription for Joy with Eva Gold
In this inspiring conversation, Paula and Doris welcome Eva Gold, Eden Energy Medicine faculty member, Holistic Health and Qigong practitioner, and radiant teacher of joy. Eva shares her journey from illness to vitality, offering profound wisdom on stress, healing, and the transformative power of playfulness. Together, they explore how stress shows up in the body, why joy is essential for well-being, and simple practices anyone can use to ground, release overwhelm and reconnect with the life force within. From breathing techniques to movement practices, from joyful connection to nature-inspired healing, this episode is filled with wisdom and heart-centered practices you can begin using today to ease stress, boost energy, and reclaim your joy. Learn more about Eva Gold at https://em4all.com/

In this heart-opening first episode of Stress Less, Joy More, hosts Doris and Paula take you behind the scenes of their own personal well-being journeys. From childhood trauma and parenting burnout to high-pressure careers and chronic stress, they share how the pursuit of wellness is not a straight line – but a series of intentional, compassionate steps back to ourselves.

What you’ll learn:

- How Paula turned childhood anxiety into tools for adult vitality

- How Doris’ daughter sparked her emotional and physical healing

- Why gratitude is more than a list—it’s an act of self-awareness

- How 2-minute energy-balancing practices can create big shifts in well-being.

- 3 simple and powerful guided practices with breath and gratitude you can do.

This episode is an invitation: to pause, to breathe, to reconnect. Because all we really want is to feel good today.