Untamed & Unfiltered Wellness
When stress, sleep, focus, or energy start shifting—and the strategies you used to rely on stop working—this podcast helps you understand why and shows you what to do next without spinning your wheels.
Untamed and Unfiltered Wellness is a grounded, no-nonsense podcast for people who want to live well in the real world, busy schedules, demanding jobs, aging bodies and all.
Each episode explores the foundations of holistic living, including:
-Nervous system regulation and stress resilience
-Sleep patterns, recovery, and daily rhythms
-Blood sugar, hydration, and energy stability
-Environmental and lifestyle stressors most people overlook
-Herbal support and somatic practices for sustainable change
This is practical, integrative wellness for real lif, not trends, not hacks and not one-size-fits-all advice.
You’ll walk away with clear insights, usable tools, and realistic shifts you can apply immediately—so your body and mind feel steadier, more supported, and easier to live in.
Hosted by Jo Swensson, Herbalist and Founder of Olivia Bell.
Olivia Bell Co., where education, herbal support and somatic practices meet everyday life.
Untamed & Unfiltered Wellness
What Evolution Didn’t See Coming
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Episode 47: What Evolution Didn’t See Coming
How long could you go without leaving your house?
A day? A few days? Longer?
In this episode, we’re digging into what modern life has quietly removed from our daily experience. Not just movement, but connection, presence and the need to physically engage with the world around us.
This is a conversation about how a life built around convenience, screens and efficiency is reshaping how we feel, how we live and how the next generation is developing.
We’ll look at what current research is showing about sedentary living and screen time. Not just in adults who feel stiff, tired, and disconnected…but in children who are growing up in an environment where screens replace interaction and presence is optional.
It’s about the fact that we’ve built a life that no longer requires us to use our bodies or to fully participate in our own lives.
And now we have to ask:
If this is what life looks like…is this actually living well?
If you’d love to keep the conversation going, I’ve written a companion piece over on my Substack where we’ll explore this idea a little further and continue the discussion about what living well actually looks like in modern life.
And if you want to sit with the questions we talked about today, that’s also where you’ll find the journal prompts from this episode.
You can find the link here: Substack article
Substack blog: https://oliviabellco.substack.com
Website: https://oliviabell.co
I hope you find some time today for some peace, some plants and some paws!
☮️🌿🐾
Jo
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