What we eat is a powerful player in our healing journey, no question about that. While making changes to our diet can yield great results and help to minimize or eliminate symptoms, neglecting to focus on lifestyle choices as well can undermine all the work we are doing with our diet or could be the missing link to our healing…
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My Non-negotiable(s): How Setting Weekly Intentions Keeps Me Moving Forward
It’s easy to get caught up in our day to day schedules, and before we know it, a few days, weeks, or even months have gone by and we have fallen out of our self-care or wellness routine. We turn around and realize we haven’t gotten our bodies moving, we’ve stopped meditating, we aren’t writing in our gratitude journal at…
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My Favorite Healing Cookbooks
When I first started AIP (Autoimmune Protocol) back in 2014 to help heal my body and calm inflammation after being diagnosed with Celiac Disease and struggling with infertility, there wasn’t nearly as many resources available as there are now. Read more about my experience with AIP here. I really didn’t know what to make for myself, but I was determined…
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Three Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Inflammation
Connecting to our breath is a powerful tool to release tension, stress, and anxiety. Deep breathing techniques are pretty simple yet provide many benefits to our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This pandemic is affecting our lives on so many levels and it’s a heavy weight for each of us to carry. Many of us are dealing with challenges and…
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How My Celiac Disease Diagnosis Changed The Trajectory Of My Life
May is National Celiac Disease Awareness Month. I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease back in 2012, but looking back, I probably had it for a long time, likely even decades before then. Growing up, I was always really exhausted and needed a lot of sleep, experienced abdominal bloating and pain that felt like spasms, gas, acne, eczema, among others. As…
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