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Homes That Heal | Transform Your Home Into a Health and Wellness Sanctuary

Jen Heller | Wellness Educator, Infrared Sauna Expert, Home Health Consultant

Welcome to the Homes That Heal podcast! A show that will help you transform your home into a health and wellness sanctuary.Hi! I am your host, Jen Heller. I am a wellness educator, infrared sauna expert, home health consultant, and your go-to resource for creating a life and home of health and happiness. I believe life happens for you, not to you. I struggled with being overweight and tried various methods, but nothing worked. I suffered a mild stroke and discovered that I was heavy metal toxic

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Ep 121: Healthy Home vs. Green Home: Safer Materials...

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2026/10/06

Ep 121 | Your home can look gorgeous, check every "green" box, and still be the reason you don't feel well. This week, Jen sits down with healthy home expert Andrew Pace to untangle the difference between a green home and a healthy home, and what it takes to make your space one that supports your health instead of adding to your body's toxic load.Andrew has spent 35 years and more than 30,000 clients learning where the hidden stuff hides: the off-gassing carpet, the low-VOC paint

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Ep 120: Infrared Sauna Recall, Lifetime Warranties &...

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2026/09/29

Ep 120 | If the CPSC issued infrared sauna recall affecting nearly 42,000 units caught your eye and left you wondering what the fuss was about, this one's for you. Jen's got the rundown, and a little reassurance. This is the sauna conversation nobody wanted to need, but here we are. Jen breaks down which brands got swept into the Sauna360 recall and why Clearlight sits completely outside of it. Then she gets into the question she wishes more people asked before buying: what does the

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Ep 119: Whole Body Vibration for Bone Density,...

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2026/09/22

Ep 119 | After a stroke left Jen's left side paralyzed, ten minutes a day standing on a vibration plate became one of the things she credits with getting her strength back.In this episode, Jen sits down with Caroline Pearce, a former Great Britain heptathlete and 20-year Power Plate Master Trainer, to get into how whole body vibration supports the body at every stage of life. They talk bone density and osteoporosis through perimenopause, how vibration wakes up muscles that have gone quiet after

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Ep 118: Buying an Infrared Sauna Led to Writing a...

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2026/09/15

Ep 118 | When Ryan Schiff set out to buy an infrared sauna for his home, he was after better heart health, deeper stretching, and a little more recovery in his day. What he didn't expect was that the quiet inside it would become the place he wrote his first book.In this conversation, Jen and Ryan talk through what it looks like to bring wellness into your home, from choosing the right infrared sauna (and why heater placement matters far more than the sale price) to the daily cold plunge habit

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Ep 117: How to Train Your Brain and Regulate Your...

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2026/09/08

Ep 117 | Every brain ships with a rewrite option. Most of us just never got the manual. This week, Dr. Patrick Porter hands it over: the neuroplasticity behind how the brain rewires and heals, and why light-and-sound tools like BrainTap can help. In this episode, Jen sits down with Dr. Patrick Porter, creator of BrainTap, to unpack what that rewrite looks like in practice, and what it means for your focus, your sleep, and your stress. Jen shares how she came back from a debilitating stroke, and how

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56:40

Ep 116: Healthspan vs Lifespan: How to Feel Better as...

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2026/09/01

Ep 116 | Living longer is one thing. Feeling good while you're doing it is another—and that gap between healthspan and lifespan is what this episode is about.Bill Quateman has a practical read on why so many of us feel tired, foggy, and a little "off" even when our labs come back fine. He and Jen get into hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA), the at-home test he calls the most foundational look at your own biochemistry, plus why minerals are the spark plugs behind your energy, the

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Ep 115: Building a Healthy Home: The 12 Core...

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2026/08/25

Ep 115 | The materials and construction that go into a home matter. So does its energy. Brian Johnson builds healthy homes that account for both, with small steps that work whether you're breaking ground or already moved in.Most healthy-home advice stops at non-toxic paint and a water filter. Brian goes deeper. A licensed contractor for 23+ years, he merges building science with building biology into a 12-principle framework for homes that don't just avoid harm, they support how you sleep,

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Ep 114: Does an Infrared Sauna Help You Lose Weight?...

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2026/08/18

Ep 114 | The question I get more than any other, you guys: does an infrared sauna help you lose weight? Today I'm giving you the honest answer—not the sales pitch.In this Ask Jen minisode, I'm tackling the three sauna questions I hear every single day: whether your infrared sauna can help you lose weight, the best time of day to use it, and whether you should sauna before or after your workout. I'll share what the scale is really telling you (full disclosure: it's mostly water),

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Ep 113: Nervous System Healing Through Safety and...

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2026/08/11

Ep 113 | Everything holds energy, your home, your relationships, and your nervous system too. Today Megan Zechel joins us to talk about healing all of it.A lot has shifted since her first visit back in episode 16. She walks us through her own divorce, an experience she calls "the unbecoming," and how it led her into the nervous system and energy work she does today. We also talk about what happens inside one of her retreats, including a Puerto Rico immersion, and how to build that same

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Ep 112: Essential Oils for Stress, Sleep & Everyday...

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2026/08/04

Ep 112 | If you've ever felt like there are SO. MANY. OPTIONS. when it comes to essential oils and had no idea where to start, this episode is for you. My friend Lacey Grim—a holistic health educator, folk herbalist, and essential oil educator—joins me to break down what makes an oil worth using, how to use them safely around kids, and simple ways to fold them into your day for better mood, better sleep, and relief from stress and headaches.🕒 In this episode:[04:15] – Lacey's path into

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Ep 111: Improving Sleep and Recovery Using...

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2026/07/28

Ep 111 | What if your clothes could tell your muscles to let go? Not stretch them, not massage them—just signal them to release. That's not a wellness fantasy. That's what Brian Burzynski built.Jen sits down with her friend Brian Burzynski, founder of Intelligent Threads, to talk about something most of us have never considered: that we're walking around in a constant state of muscular tension—and don't even know it. Life, stress, and years of structural compensation do that

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Ep 110: Mold, Air Quality & Passive House Design for...

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2026/07/21

Ep 110 | Most builders compete on price. Paul Kealey says the real cost of a new home shows up in energy bills, air quality, and your health.Paul Kealey joins Jen to talk about why a newer home isn't automatically a healthier one, and what's really driving the mold and air quality problems hiding behind so many walls. We get into passive house design, his BURDEN framework for the hidden stressors in your home, and the real, current mold story unfolding in Jen's own family right now.🕒

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Ep 109: What Size Infrared Sauna Do I Need? Full...

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2026/07/14

Ep 109 | If you've ever typed "what size infrared sauna do I need" into a search bar, gotten lost in a Facebook sauna group rabbit hole, or you're wondering what to expect once you start using your sauna—this episode is for you.In this Ask Jen episode, Jen answers three of the most common infrared sauna questions she gets every single day: how to choose the right sauna size for your home, the real difference between near, mid, and far infrared (and whether full spectrum is

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Ep 108: How to Eat for Energy and Metabolic Health...

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2026/07/07

Ep 108 | If you've been doing everything "right" and still feel exhausted by noon, this episode is going to make a lot of things click.Jenn Trepeck is a Health and Lifestyle Coach, podcaster, and author who's spent nearly two decades helping people cut through the noise and get back to what the body actually needs. In this episode, we dig into how to eat for energy and metabolic health—not another list of foods to avoid, but the simple shifts in how you eat that can change

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Ep 107: Nervous System Regulation for Burnout...

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2026/06/30

Ep 107 | JD Tremblay sold his house to chase a finish line, slept in his car for over a year, and became one of only three people in the world to complete the EpicDeca. It took his nervous system completely shutting down for him to understand what real recovery requires.In this episode, Jen sits down with ultra-endurance athlete and certified naturopath practitioner JD Tremblay to talk about nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, and the connection between your home environment and your

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Ep 106: Best Biohacking Tools for Recovery, Sleep &...

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2026/06/23

Ep 106 | Every year, Dave Asprey's Beyond Conference pulls together the most advanced biohacking, longevity, and home wellness tools on the planet. Year 14 did not disappoint.This is Jen's full recap. PEMF therapy, BrainTap, lymphatic compression, near-infrared light therapy, crystal bowl sound healing, women's microbiome testing—she experienced it firsthand and is bringing every find back to you. Plus a personal announcement she hasn't shared anywhere else yet.🕒 In this

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Ep 105: How Nutrition Response Testing Finds Hidden...

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2026/06/16

Ep 105 | Have you ever felt like something was off in your body—even when your labs came back "normal"? This conversation may offer a completely different perspective on why.In this Season 3 kickoff episode, Jen sits down with certified clinical nutritionist Ashley Meyer—one of the most influential people in her own healing story—to dig into Nutrition Response Testing, root cause healing, heavy metal toxicity, and why the environment inside your home may be a bigger piece of your health

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Ep 104: My Top 10 Wellness Tips for a Healthy Home |...

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2026/06/09

Ep 104 | After 100 episodes of digging into home health, EMF exposure, infrared sauna, sleep optimization, toxic cleaning products, and nervous system regulation—these are the 10 things that kept showing up. Jen pulls the biggest wellness tips for the home from 100+ conversations with healers, biohackers, dentists, feng shui masters, and real people who figured out how to feel better—and breaks down what every single conversation kept circling back to. Plus a personal look back at Season 2, what

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Ep 103: Non-Toxic Living, Essential Oils & Healing...

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2026/06/02

Ep 103 | Kari Davis came on the show to talk essential oils and non-toxic living—and then got beautifully, wonderfully real about grief, faith, and rebuilding a life from scratch.In 2015, Kari's husband passed away suddenly. She was 38, with three kids ages 4, 9, and 11, and a life that had just changed completely. What she discovered in that season is something I think a lot of us need to hear—that the tools you've already built into your home, your faith, your essential oils, your

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Ep 102: Toxic Homes, Chronic Stress & Healing Spaces:...

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2026/05/26

Ep 102 | What if your home was making you feel worse—and you didn't even realize it? This week's guest went from being bedridden and relying on a walker, service dog, and full-time caregiver to whitewater kayaking in the Northwoods. And along the way, she discovered something surprising: her environment may have been working against her healing instead of supporting it.Antoinette Lee shares one of the most powerful healing-home stories I've heard. We talk about toxic off-gassing,

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