Limitless Healing: Integrating Mind and Body with Kristina Scaglione
Modern life leaves few untouched by stress and emotional pain. In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast, Cate Stillman speaks with Kristina Scaglione, LCSW-R, founder of Root & Rise Clinical Specialists, to discuss how trauma-informed therapy and holistic care empower people to heal at every level—mental, physical, and spiritual.
Kristina shares her evolution from volunteer work with homeless populations in New York City to building a multidisciplinary practice that merges clinical psychology with complementary modalities such as nutrition, Reiki, hormone balance, and hypnosis. Her journey illustrates how the next wave of mental-health care integrates the best of both science and spirituality.
Why Trauma-Informed Therapy Matters
Trauma isn’t limited to catastrophic events. Subtle, cumulative experiences—social isolation, cultural pressure, medical gaslighting—can imprint just as deeply. Kristina explains that nearly everyone carries some layer of trauma, and real recovery begins with awareness and compassion rather than labels.
Key Lessons from the Conversation
🌿 Healing Is Holistic
True wellness connects mind, body, and energy. The Root & Rise + Limitless model moves beyond talk therapy to include breathwork, lifestyle design, and somatic awareness.
🧠 Habits Build Healing
Daily routines regulate the nervous system. Kristina teaches “habit stacking”—linking new wellness practices to existing behaviors—to make healing sustainable.
🧍 Grounding as a Seatbelt
Practices like conscious breathing and mindfulness shouldn’t wait for crisis moments. When used consistently, they become reflexive tools for safety and calm.
📱 Technology’s Double Edge
Social media spreads mental-health awareness but can also amplify comparison and self-diagnosis. Human connection remains the true regulator of emotion.
💰 The Power of Self-Pay
Private-pay models restore autonomy and confidentiality, freeing clinicians and clients from insurance limitations and supporting customized, trust-based care.
🌸 Integrative Medicine in Action
Kristina’s own healing from a vaccine-related injury inspired her to co-create Limitless Partnership, a collective bridging Eastern and Western medicine for complex cases such as long-haul COVID.
Redefining Healing
As Cate and Kristina emphasize, sustainable transformation requires more than symptom management—it calls for community, nervous-system literacy, and multidimensional self-care. By combining evidence-based therapy with ancient healing wisdom, practitioners like Kristina are shaping a future where mind-body integration is the norm, not the exception.
Resources & Links
🌐 Root & Rise Clinical Specialists
🌿 Limitless Partnership
📘 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk → Amazon
📘 Uninflamed by Cate Stillman → Amazon
🌿 Join Club Thrive
🧘 Yogahealer Website
About the Host – Cate Stillman
Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades she has guided wellness professionals and conscious seekers to unlock body intelligence, reverse inflammation, and lead from alignment. She is the author of Uninflamed, Body Thrive, Master of You, and Primal Habits.
