475: This Diet & Lifestyle Helps Torrey DeVitto Manage Her Mental Health
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/torreydevitto475
Torrey DeVitto (IG: @torreydevitto) is a conscious actress, advocate, philanthropist and producer - she recently wrapped her incredible six season run on the NBC drama, “Chicago Med.”
Torrey balances her acting career with her philanthropic work and personal practices in alternative medicine, veganism and holistic wellness. She incorporates consciousness into every aspect of her life.
If you’re struggling with a mental health challenge this conversation will help you feel less alone and give you some great ideas that will help calm your mind.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Torrey’s evolution into acting
- The beginning of her health & wellness journey
- Incorporating medicinal mushrooms for healing benefits
- The catalyst for becoming vegetarian 15 years ago
- Feeling spiritually lighter eating vegan
- Torrey’s approach to eating differently from her partner
- Navigating healthy meals on set
- Advice for sustainable shopping
- Future plans for her Michigan farm
- Torrey’s book recommendations
- Experimenting with intermittent fasting
- Why she stopped drinking caffeine
- Torrey's lifelong journey with anxiety & OCD + therapy options
- Why a daily meditation practice is so important
- Setting social media boundaries
- How the pandemic impacted Torrey
- Taking self-care days
- Listening to your intuition
- How EMDR therapy is helpful
- Torrey’s thoughts on psychedelics
- Tips for managing anxiety on set
- What’s coming up next for Torrey
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The Biggest Little Farm (documentary)
Listen to John & Molly Chester previously on TUHP (episode #370)
Gaia Vince - Transcendence (book)
Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy (book)
Alisa Vitti - In The FLO (book)
Alisa Vitti - WomenCode (book)
Listen to Cynthia Thurlow previously on TUHP (episode #465)
The Social Dilemma (documentary)
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How to Calm Your Anxiety & Release Stress | Dr. Ellen Vora (#471)
The New Science on How to End Your Anxiety | Dr. Robin Berzin (#452)
Alyson Stoner on Surviving the Entertainment Industry, Minimalism & Healing With Movement (#421)
Laura Prepon on Healing With Real Food (#406)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I feel like it's so powerful to not feel ashamed of any aspect of your being, your mind, |
| 0:09.8 | your spirit, your heart. So I try to be as candid as possible about my life and what I'm going through. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 475. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:30.9 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:35.6 | This week I'm chatting with Tori DeVito. Tori is a conscious actress, |
| 0:39.6 | advocate, philanthropist, and producer. She recently wrapped her incredible six-season run on |
| 0:44.7 | the NBC drama Chicago Med. Tori balances her acting career with her philanthropic work in |
| 0:50.7 | personal practices and alternative medicine, veganism, and holistic wellness. She incorporates |
| 0:56.1 | consciousness into every aspect of her life. If you're someone who's struggling with a mental |
| 1:00.4 | health challenge, this conversation is going to help you feel less alone and give you some great |
| 1:04.8 | ideas that will help you calm your mind. Highlights include incorporating medicinal mushrooms |
| 1:10.1 | for healing benefits, future plans for Tori's Michigan farm, her lifelong journey with anxiety |
| 1:16.1 | and OCD plus therapy options, why a daily meditation practice is so important, and Tori's thoughts |
| 1:23.0 | on psychedelics. As always, this full conversation is available over on YouTube. You can get there by |
| 1:28.4 | going to AltimaHealthPodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you |
| 1:33.1 | don't miss any of the action. If when you get to the end of this conversation, you enjoy it and you |
| 1:37.3 | find it helpful, please share it with somebody in your life if you know somebody who's struggling |
| 1:41.3 | with a mental health challenge and help them along your health journey. Thank you so much. |
| 1:45.6 | Without further ado, here we go with Tori DeVito. Tori, you've been drawn to the arts throughout |
| 1:51.6 | your life. It started out with violin when you were a kid, moved into modeling, and then later on |
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