Category: Stress

A Brain Based Approach To Healing

What is a brain-based approach to healing? brain-based coach, Alyssa Chang, describes it as the following: “A brain-based approach to healing looks at everything from a nervous system perspective with the understanding that our brain and body are always trying to orient us more toward safety and survival.” The best way to describe a brain-based […]
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Nutrition is one of the top ways to reduce stress within the body

Stress is often viewed as a thing, but it’s really a response within the body. ⁣⁣Gabor Mate gives this great description of stress in his book, When The Body Says No:⁣⁣“Stress is a biological process, a wide-ranging set of events in the body, irrespective of cause or of subjective awareness. Stress consists of the internal […]
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Stress Equals Energy Loss

When the body is under stress, it uses up more energy in order to carry out our stress response and give us the best chance at responding to whatever the threat is. Many of us are already dealing with slowed energy production aka a slow metabolism. This is often related to chronic mental or physical […]
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Its not the stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it

Are you resilient to stress? I used to handle stress very poorly. Loud noises would make me jump, I cried easily, took offense to everything, and generally felt exhausted. This made me feel crazy because I was doing so much for my health. Why was nothing enough? Turns out, I was doing too much. Intermittent […]
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You Can’t Heal In The Same Environment That Made You Sick

You might read that and think physical environment, but I’m actually talking more about your mental environment. Our brains play a huge role in our health and the healing process. We can change our nutrition, supplements, movement, and even our physical environment. However, if our brain is still operating in a way that is constantly […]
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You Know What Your Baby Needs

Although it may not always feel like it, you know what your baby needs. That baby was connected to you for nine months and just because they are earthside, doesn’t change anything. There is a lot of information out there on every single thing you could ever consider Googling postpartum, especially in the early days. […]
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A Supportive Community & Connection Heals

While I think we have to address the way we eat, I believe that having support and a community behind you is often left out of the equation. According to several studies (and my own experience), the “secret” to healing is a strong community. Yep, you read that right: Having a social network or a […]
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What you Can Learn From an HTMA

If you listened my Mineral Testing episode on the Are You Menstrual? Podcast episode, you know hair mineral testing is my favorite way to assess mineral status. There are two big reasons:1. It has been a transformational test for myself and my clients.2. It gives you A LOT of information on one test and is […]
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The Importance of a Healthy Nervous System For Healing

You’re going along on your healing journey–eating nourishing foods, fueling your body fully, and prioritizing YOU. You’re feeling pretty good, but something is still off. This is often unique to the individual and is something from their past. A common one I see is anxious thoughts and worrying about things coming up again. An example […]
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Oxygen, CO2 and How They Impact Our Health

I’ve always been drawn to breathwork. I got trained in HeartMath and heart-focused breathing then went on to learn the Wim Hof Method. This past week I was lucky enough to have Alyssa Chang, brain-based health and movement coach, teach a class for my Healthy Period Protocol ladies on the brain and how this impacts […]
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