It pretty much sucks when you are exhausted and ready for sleep, but your brain is not. You lay there with thoughts running through your head — worrying about what you did or did not do, family members, money, your job, and all the things that you cannot control. Perhaps you go to sleep [...]
Long and vulnerable post 🦋 Life’s challenges. Why is it that for some, it can take them down while others can rise strong from their experience(s)? I don’t need to tell you that mental health is complex and does not discriminate. We haven’t gotten it figured out yet, which is why we are mourning the [...]
Clients come to me with their food journals and they are often pretty darn clean. They follow a real food lifestyle and they are perplexed that they aren't getting the results they hoped for. The biggest issues they are looking to resolve are: weight (and or fat) loss digestive issues autoimmune conditions blood sugar handling [...]
I cried my eyes out yesterday morning. It was a huge emotional release of worry and fear. I don’t need it anymore. It left my body. This worry and fear about something in particular was not serving me or my family. Worry and fear doesn’t serve you either and I hope if any negative emotion has [...]
I've been thinking about my blog for some time now, I have been letting the drive of perfection let me get in the way and therefore, I have not been writing consistently! I wrote Nourishing & Healing the Body & Brain: Part 1 but not part 2 yet. I even talk about acceptance of imperfection in [...]
Nutrition plays a significant role in overall health but I don’t have to tell you how complicated and confusing it is. I know, I’ve tried every diet out there for myself and my family. I was obsessed for way too long and it I believe that obsession made things worse for my mind, body, and [...]
What is Reiki? Reiki, "universal life force energy," is a non-religion based complementary health approach that is practiced on oneself and also with others with the goal of facilitating the body’s own innate healing response to restoring physical and emotional well-being. It's classified by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health as energy medicine. In our busy, [...]
As the Project Manager of Community Development for Nourishing Hope, I was privileged in helping put together this remarkable story of hope, healing, and recovery for not only Shamus, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism, but for Anita his mother, and Kaitlyn, Shamus' little sister. To read the full story, please visit [...]
Join me at the "Gut Instinct : Living and eating in a microbiome world" conference - Portland, Oregon, October 14-16 "Cutting-edge research and multi-disciplinary approaches all under one roof." SCHEDULE Friday at 6:30 pm - Keynote address by Dr. Embritette Hyde of The American Gut Project | The Knight Lab UCSD | Forbes' 30 Under 30 [...]
(Photo from Nourishinghope.com) Luka's Recovery From Autism As the project manager of community development for Nourishing Hope for Autism, I had the honor of helping compile Luka's incredibly powerful story of recovery from autism. Nourishing Hope focuses on helping children with Autism as well as ADHD, and learning and developmental delays through bioindividual nutrition and biomedical treatment [...]
