Take Charge of Your Holistic Health Podcast

Healing Emotions Stored in the Body: Letting Go with Love

Healing Emotions Stored in the Body: Letting Go with Love

Have you ever felt physical pain or fatigue that just wouldn't go away—only to realize it was tied to something deeper, something emotional?

Welcome to Take Charge of Your Health with Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist, Reiki Master, and compassionate guide for your healing journey. In this powerful episode, we explore a truth that so many of us feel but few talk about openly:

Your emotions live in your body.
And they stay there—until you gently release them.

This episode shines a light on the emotions we often bury—anger, fear, grief, sadness, worry—and how they quietly shape our health, our relationships, and our energy. The good news? With the right tools and support, you can release them… with love.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, emotions are not just “in your head.” They’re energetic patterns that live within your organs, muscles, breath, and nervous system. They influence how we digest, sleep, move, and feel.

Here’s what you’ll uncover in this deeply healing conversation:

• How anger can store in your liver, leading to headaches, tension, and frustration

• How grief can live in your lungs, making it harder to breathe, let go, or feel joy

• How fear impacts the kidneys, draining your energy and affecting your lower back

• How worry burdens the spleen, leading to digestive issues and constant overthinking

• How even excess joy can overwhelm the heart and leave you feeling burned out or scattered

This episode breaks down each emotional-physical connection in a way that is compassionate, clear, and empowering. You’ll understand how your unprocessed experiences may be quietly shaping your health—and more importantly, how to begin releasing what no longer serves you.

You’ll also hear real-life stories from people who were holding on to emotional pain in their bodies and how, with simple daily tools like breathwork, journaling, and acupressure, they started to feel freedom, relief, and peace.

Imagine what it would feel like to breathe deeply again.
To move through your day without that tightness in your chest… that weight in your belly… that ache in your shoulders.
Imagine feeling calm, centered, and emotionally grounded—not because you suppressed your feelings, but because you listened to them and let them go with compassion.

In this episode, Dr. Guadalupe gently walks you through 5 simple, loving practices you can begin today to start healing emotions stored in your body:

1. Journaling for Awareness

You’ll learn how to ask yourself powerful questions like:
“What am I feeling today—and where do I feel it in my body?”
Writing these thoughts down helps release emotional tension, clarify patterns, and move energy.

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🌬️ 2. Healing Breathwork

Dr. Guadalupe shares a calming breath technique to bring your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into a state of safety.
This technique takes just 3–5 minutes and creates space for buried emotions to rise gently.

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🤲 3. Acupressure for Emotional Support

You’ll learn the exact acupressure points to help release specific emotions:

• Lung 1 for grief

• Liver 3 for anger

• Kidney 1 for fear

• Spleen 6 for worry
  These points are safe, effective, and incredibly grounding.

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🕊️ 4. Emotion-Specific Affirmations

Words carry energy. You’ll receive mantras like:

• “I release what no longer serves me.”

• “It is safe to feel and heal.”

• “I breathe through this with love.”
  Repeating these while pressing an acupressure point or after journaling amplifies healing.

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🌳 5. Connecting with Nature

Sometimes the best medicine is stepping outside.
Dr. Guadalupe explains how walking barefoot, touching a tree, or sitting in sunlight can help your body metabolize stored emotions, especially when done mindfully.

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These tools are gentle enough to use daily, yet powerful enough to create real, lasting change. You don’t need to be a healer or expert—you just need the willingness to begin.

If you’ve been feeling emotionally overwhelmed, energetically blocked, or physically weighed down and you can’t quite explain why—this episode is for you.

💖 Don’t wait for a breaking point.
Start listening to the wisdom of your body now.
Let this episode be your invitation to pause, breathe, and tune in. Your body isn’t holding onto these emotions to punish you—it’s trying to communicate.

🎧 Tune in now to Healing Emotions Stored in the Body: Letting Go with Love on the Take Charge of Your Health podcast.
Whether you’re on a healing journey, working through past trauma, or simply curious about the mind-body connection, this conversation will nourish your soul.

🌐 Visit www.kicotanacupuncture.com for:

• Free acupressure charts

• A printable emotion-to-organ guide

• Guided meditations and breathwork sessions

• Journaling prompts to release emotional blocks

💌 Share this episode with a friend, loved one, or client who may be silently holding emotional pain. Healing doesn’t have to be done alone.

🕯️ Remember:
Your body remembers what your heart has not yet spoken.
Let this be the day you begin letting go—with love.

Download Where Emotions Live in the Body Chart

Move Your Energy: Discover the Healing Power of Qi Gong

Move Your Energy: Discover the Healing Power of Qi Gong

In a world where stress, anxiety, and burnout have become daily companions, we’re all searching for gentle, accessible ways to reclaim our calm, energy, and inner strength. In this powerful episode of Take Charge of Your Health, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez—Licensed Acupuncturist, Reiki Master, and founder of Kicotan Acupuncture—invites you to explore the ancient practice of Qi Gong, a form of moving meditation that harmonizes the body, breath, and spirit.

Whether you're recovering from fatigue, managing chronic stress, or simply looking for a way to feel more centered, Qi Gong offers a simple yet transformative solution. Best of all, it's for everybody—you can practice standing, seated, or even from a wheelchair. No equipment, no complex choreography—just your breath, your body, and your intention.

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🌿 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• What Qi Gong really is: Discover the roots of this ancient healing practice from Traditional Chinese Medicine and how it differs from Tai Chi and yoga.

• Why Qi Gong works: Learn how moving your energy through breath and gentle motion supports immunity, improves circulation, balances emotions, and reduces stress.

• Signs your Qi is stuck: Ever feel foggy, tired, or emotionally heavy? You’ll learn how that might relate to energy stagnation—and how Qi Gong can bring clarity and lightness back.

• Step-by-step guidance for 4 simple movements you can start doing immediately—even while you listen!

• Real success stories from people who’ve used these practices to reduce anxiety, find calm, and improve overall health.

• Daily action steps you can take to start a sustainable Qi Gong practice—even if you only have 5 minutes a day.

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🌬️ A Practice Rooted in Breath, Balance, and Awareness

Qi Gong (pronounced chee-gong) literally means “energy work” or “skillful cultivation of life force.” In Chinese medicine, Qi is your vital life energy—the flow that moves through your organs, muscles, and mind. When that energy is balanced, we feel vibrant. When it’s stuck, we feel pain, fatigue, or emotional imbalance.

In this episode, Dr. Guadalupe gently explains how Qi Gong helps:

• Activate your body’s natural healing response

• Regulate your nervous system

• Boost energy without overstimulation

• Process stored emotions like fear, grief, and tension

The best part? It’s accessible and forgiving. You don’t have to get every move “right.” Qi Gong isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence.

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✨ Guided Practice Included: Move with Guadalupe

Dr. Guadalupe walks you through 4 restorative movements that anyone can do:

1. Opening the Heart – Release stress and invite peace with a flowing arm motion.

2. Wave Hands Like Clouds – A soft, swaying movement that clears mental chatter.

3. Shake It Off – Yes, literally! Bounce, shake, and let tension melt away.

4. Energy Ball Breath – A grounding practice that helps you reconnect with your inner power.

Whether you’re seated at your desk, standing in your kitchen, or winding down before bed, these movements are designed to meet you exactly where you are.

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💬 Real Stories, Real Results

This episode features inspiring insights from individuals—just like you—who used Qi Gong to transform their health and mindset:

“I used to think you had to push through pain to feel better. But after just 5 minutes a day of Qi Gong, I had less tension in my neck, better sleep, and more energy.” — Marissa, 54

“I have anxiety, and most things don’t help. But Qi Gong felt like I could finally breathe again. I cried during my first session—it was like my body remembered what peace felt like.” — David, 32

These aren’t rare outcomes—they’re reflections of what happens when you move your energy with awareness.

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✅ Start Your Practice Today

Dr. Guadalupe wraps up the episode with 5 simple ways to begin integrating Qi Gong into your life today:

1. Choose a time that works—morning, midday, or before sleep.

2. Start with one or two movements—you don’t need to do all four.

3. Set a 5-minute timer and practice with intention.

4. Use calming music or nature sounds to enhance your experience.

5. Be kind to yourself. Even one minute of conscious movement is enough to shift your energy.

She reminds listeners that there’s no right or wrong here—only awareness, breath, and gentle motion.

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🌟 Why This Episode Matters

In today’s fast-paced world, movement often comes with pressure—workouts, reps, goals. But what if movement could be soft, sacred, and intuitive?

This episode reframes wellness as returning to your breath and honoring your body’s rhythm. Qi Gong is more than just physical—it’s emotional, spiritual, and energetic healing. And once you experience it, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

This isn’t just about exercise. It’s about coming back home to yourself.

Tune In Now

Whether you're dealing with stress, looking for new healing tools, or just curious about natural energy practices, Move Your Energy: Discover the Healing Power of Qi Gong is a must-listen.

Let your body exhale. Let your heart open. Let your energy move.
Start today—because healing is always just one breath away.

Acupressure at Home: 5 Points to Relieve Stress and Pain Naturally

Feeling stressed, tense, or out of balance? In this episode, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist, shares five powerful acupressure points you can use at home to calm anxiety, ease pain, improve digestion, and sleep better—no needles required! Learn how to tap into your body’s natural healing wisdom with your own hands in just minutes a day.

✨ Start your self-healing journey today—right from your living room.

Healing Herbs: Nature's Gift to Your Health

Are you ready to unlock the healing secrets growing right in your kitchen—or perhaps in your garden?

In this episode of Take Charge of Your Health, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist and Holistic Wellness Expert, reveals how everyday herbs like lavender, mint, ginger, rosemary, and red clover can support your body’s natural healing process. From boosting immunity and calming anxiety to easing digestion and relieving pain, these plant allies are more powerful than you think.

✨ You’ll discover:

• 12 healing herbs used in Indigenous and traditional medicine

• How saltwater actually supports immune function

• Simple ways to use herbs at home—no fancy blends needed!

• Real-life stories of people who transformed their health with natural remedies

Whether you’re just beginning your herbal journey or looking to deepen your connection with nature, this episode is a reminder: healing begins at home—and often, with a leaf.

🫖 Tune in now and reconnect with the wisdom of the Earth.
For more resources and wellness support, visit 👉 www.kicotanacupuncture.com

Breath is Medicine: Techniques to Reset Your Body and Mind

 Are You Breathing Just to Survive—Not to Heal?

In our fast-paced, overstimulated world, most of us have forgotten how to breathe. We hold our breath during stressful conversations. We breathe shallowly when we’re anxious. And sometimes, we don’t even realize that our breath has become tight, fast, or erratic—until the signs of imbalance show up in our lives.

• Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the smallest tasks?

• Are you constantly tired, even after a full night’s rest?

• Do your thoughts race, making it hard to focus?

• Do you experience tension, anxiety, or emotional heaviness?

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and the solution might be simpler than you think.

Your breath is your medicine.
It’s the one healing tool you were born with. It’s always with you. And once you learn how to use it intentionally, it becomes a source of calm, energy, focus, and emotional balance.

In this powerful episode of Take Charge of Your Health, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez invites you to return to your breath and discover how it can transform your mind, body, and spirit—naturally.

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 Why Breathwork Is a Cornerstone of Natural Healing

Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Reiki Master, and founder of Kicotan Acupuncture. With decades of experience in holistic healing, she has guided countless individuals toward wellness through Traditional Chinese Medicine, journaling, energy healing, and lifestyle medicine.

In this episode, she unpacks a healing truth many people overlook:

“Your breath is the bridge between your body and your mind. When you learn to breathe with awareness, you activate the healing wisdom already within you.”

You’ll learn how modern science and ancient traditions agree on the power of breath:

• Breath regulates the autonomic nervous system, helping to shift from “fight or flight” to “rest and digest.”

• Controlled breathing increases oxygen flow to the brain, boosting clarity, focus, and decision-making.

• Breathwork helps release emotional tension stored in the body—promoting emotional regulation and resilience.

• In Traditional Chinese Medicine, proper breath supports the movement of Qi (life force energy) and nourishes your Lungs, Heart, and Spirit (Shen).

When practiced consistently, breathwork can help you:

✔ Reduce anxiety and panic
✔ Lower blood pressure
✔ Enhance sleep and digestion
✔ Increase energy without caffeine
✔ Build a deeper connection with your body

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 Simple Techniques to Reset in Minutes a Day

This episode is not just theory—it’s a guided experience. Dr. Guadalupe walks you through breath practices that are accessible for all levels and can be done anytime, anywhere.

✨ Technique 1: 4-7-8 Breath for Calm

This method is perfect for reducing stress, calming the mind, and regulating emotions.

How to practice:

• Inhale through your nose for 4 seconds

• Hold your breath for 7 seconds

• Exhale gently through your mouth for 8 seconds

• Repeat 3–4 cycles

This activates your parasympathetic nervous system and is especially helpful before bed, after a triggering event, or during moments of anxiety.

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 Technique 2: Energizing Breath (Bellows Breath)

Need a boost of energy or focus without reaching for coffee? This breath will awaken your mind and invigorate your Qi.

How to practice:

• Sit tall with a straight spine

• Inhale and exhale through your nose rapidly (1 breath per second)

• Do this for 10–15 seconds

• Finish with a deep inhale and a slow, steady exhale

You’ll feel alert, refreshed, and re-centered.

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 Technique 3: Body-Aware Breathing

This is a slow, mindful breath used to check in with the body and emotions.

How to practice:

• Inhale slowly while scanning your body from head to toe

• As you exhale, soften any area of tension

• Use this as a grounding tool during meditation, journaling, or acupressure

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Make Breathwork Part of Your Daily Healing Ritual

Breath doesn’t need to be a long practice—it just needs to be consistent.
You can begin resetting your nervous system in as little as 2–3 minutes a day.

Here’s how to integrate it into your wellness routine:

Time of Day	Practice	Purpose
Morning	Bellows Breath or 4 deep belly breaths	Wake up your energy and mental clarity
Midday	4-7-8 breath during breaks	Reduce tension and mental overwhelm
Evening	Body-Aware Breathing or 4-7-8	Wind down and prepare for restful sleep

Pair it with:

• Journaling prompts

• Herbal teas

• Acupressure

• Gentle stretches or Qi Gong
  ...for a complete healing ritual.

💬 Affirmation to say with each breath:

“I am safe. I am calm. I am present. I am healing.”

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Take the Next Step: Empower Your Healing Through Breath

Your healing doesn’t begin in a clinic. It begins with awareness.
And the moment you choose to slow down, breathe deeply, and listen inward—you’re already healing.

✨ In this episode, Dr. Guadalupe reminds you:

“Your breath is sacred. It’s your connection to life. And with each conscious breath, you bring your body back into balance.”

🎧 Listen now to "Breath is Medicine: Techniques to Reset Your Body and Mind"
And experience the power of breathwork for yourself:
🔗 https://TakeChargeHolisitcHealthPodcast.podbean.com/e/breath-is-medicine/

White Coat Syndrome: How to Calm Your Nervous System Naturally

White Coat Syndrome: How to Calm Your Nervous System Naturally

🧲 Does your heart race or blood pressure spike at the doctor’s office—even when you feel fine?

💡 In this episode, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist and founder of Kicotan Acupuncture, explains the root cause of White Coat Syndrome and how it affects your nervous system. Discover how fear, stress, and past medical experiences can trigger physical reactions—and what you can do about it.

🔥You’ll learn natural, science-backed tools like breathwork, journaling, and acupressure to regulate your nervous system before, during, and after appointments. These simple techniques can help you feel calm, confident, and in control of your health journey.

🚀 Don’t let fear hijack your body.
🎧 Tune in now to reclaim peace in any medical setting.

👉 For more guidance and holistic support, visit www.kicotanacupuncture.com

Journal Your Way to Clarity & Calmness

Journal Your Way to Clarity & Calmness

🧲 Feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or stuck in your thoughts?

💡 In this heart-centered episode, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist and holistic healing guide, shares how journaling can be a powerful daily tool for emotional release and mental clarity. Discover the connection between expressive writing and your overall well-being.

🔥You’ll learn how sacred journaling helps reduce stress, balance emotions, and support your mind-body-spirit connection. With healing prompts, guided reflection, and real-world examples, this episode invites you to reclaim your inner calm—one word at a time.

🚀 Start your healing today with a pen and paper.
🎧 Listen now and experience the power of journaling for emotional clarity and peace.

👉 For more resources, visit www.kicotanacupuncture.com

Acupuncture Demystified: How it Really Works

Acupuncture Demystified: How It Really Works

🧲 Curious about acupuncture but unsure what it really does—or if it even works?

💡 In this enlightening episode, Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Licensed Acupuncturist and founder of Kicotan Acupuncture, breaks down the truth behind acupuncture. You’ll learn how this ancient practice works with your body’s energy systems to relieve pain, reduce stress, and restore balance—naturally.

🔥 Whether you're struggling with chronic conditions, anxiety, or emotional tension, acupuncture offers a safe, time-tested path to healing. Discover how tiny needles can create powerful shifts and hear real stories from patients who’ve transformed their health.

🚀 Don’t let fear or misinformation keep you from trying a gentle, holistic method of healing.

🎧 Listen now and gain a deeper understanding of your body’s ability to heal through energy.

👉 Visit www.kicotanacupuncture.com for resources and to book your session.