Spiral Tending Pod

A space for healing practitioners & therapists to talk about money, insurance, burnout, business, thriving, and surviving <3.

  • Dr. Kaeri Schaefer moves through her roles as healing space holder, body interpreter, and medical guide with an MD from the University of Wisconsin, a board certification in Family Medicine, training in functional medicine
    from the Institute of Functional Medicine, and craniosacral and osteopathic training from Carol Gray and Christopher Frothingham, DO. She continues to work on better understanding the effects of colonialism on our medical system, with guidance by the courses of Dra. Rocio Rosales Meza.

     Kaeri's work aims to truly integrate western/allopathic medicine, herbalism, functional medicine, craniosacral therapy, osteopathic manipulation and somatic processing. Most of what she uses in her practice of the art of medicine she didn’t learn in medical school or residency. Her most important teachers have been her kids and the many amazing humxns who have trusted her to support them in their healing journeys.

    Kaeri is committed to helping bring awareness to the ways the western medical system is built on fear. Her goal is to help us recognize that fear and the environments built from it do not support our healing. She fully believes that we can change these systems when we as individuals (both providers and those receiving care) bring trust and our bodied experience into these settings. She focuses her work on helping individuals and small groups find ways to connect into and understand their body communications ("symptoms") and move towards trust in their body's wisdom. She loves to support other providers in making small shifts in the environment and language that will help change their relationships to the system and thus, over time, change the system itself.

  • How can we use workers right as a way to bridge better client care? Is making enough money even allowed in this field? How do we hold our debts, and showing up for clients?

  • How do we hold intuitive eating & GLP-1? How has accepting insurance supported your financial well-being and nervous system? What stories do we tell ourselves from scrolling insta?

     

    Leah Kern is an Anti-Diet Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor who helps people make peace with food and body using the Health At Every Size (HAES) and Intuitive Eating frameworks. Upon earning her RDN, Leah built a thriving private practice, doing the exact work she feels she was put on this earth to do. Leah believes that the work involved with unraveling years of conditioning in diet culture and learning to come home to one’s body is deeply spiritual work and she treats it as such. She currently lives in Northern California with her partner and their two kitties.

     

    https://leahkernrd.com/
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  • Andie introduces Spiral Tending Podcast and invites healers into the Spiral Collective, a community to move away from performance pressure, “bullshit professionalism,” and small business isolation while discussing themes like money, restructuring in late-stage capitalism, and mutual support. Andie interviews Heather Bax of Small Business Rodeo, who helps small business owners “wrangle their work and find their flow” through strategy and systems so they can reduce overwhelm and run confident experiments. Heather shares a circuitous path—dog training, web development, and opening a North Carolina gift shop in 2019 that survived COVID through an online store, gift certificate sales, and hiring staff—amid her father’s sudden death and ongoing stress. She reflects on grief as clarifying and creativity-opening, the myth of “arriving” after burnout, and critiques one-size-fits-all online business coaching. Her key advice is that clarity is a prerequisite for discernment. Heather directs listeners to smallbusiness.rodeo and a free tech stack guide.

    Heather is a gentle and human-centered small business advisor and strategist at Small Business Rodeo (https://smallbusiness.rodeo). Her work centers on helping folks design their businesses to support their own humanity and wrangle their work into systems that match how their unique brains work. If you're tired of throwing spaghetti and ready to bring some strategy and systems to your own business, Heather can help! You can start wrangling your work with the FREE Field Guide to Simple Tech Stacks at https://sbr.kit.com/field-guide today.