Taming Your Sweet Tooth (Part II)

If you scroll down a couple posts you can read Part one of Taming your sweet tooth. Part II has arrived in the form of my new Ebook. It is called How To Tame Your Sweet Tooth: A Remedy.   I refer to it a sustainable clean eating guide. I hope to shine a light […]

Taming Your Sweet Tooth part I

“A party without cake is just a meeting.” -Julia Child Sugar Free Remedy “Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy.” Dr. Mark Hyman.  He also says, sugar is 8 times as addictive as […]

Morning Sunshine Smoothie with a Collagen boost

“Beyond the eating plan, which is crucial for ultimate well-being and health, we also need to rebalance the other three important pillars in our lives: sleep, community, and movement.” -Robb Wolf   I recently finished the book Wired to Eat by Robb Wolf.  He hits the nail on the head with inflammation. This summer I […]

The Best Foods To Nourish Your Skin

“Skin care must be good enough to eat!” –Joanna Runciman   Our skin is an excellent indicator of our gut health.  If we really let this truth sink in, we would stop worrying about how to hide the symptoms and instead turn our attention to address the underlying  imbalances. Diet, lifestyle, environmental stressors and/or toxins […]

Instant Pot-Chicken Kale & White Bean Soup

“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” -Shauna Niequist Nourishing Life Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent […]

Tart Cherries: a Superfood for Inflammation, Pain, and Sleep

“Anti-inflammatory life is a bowl full of cherries.” Michael Greger, M.D.   Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links, of which I participate. Read my full disclosure in terms and conditions if you need more info.   Life as a Bowl of Cherries Lately I have been consumed in my own little world. Do you ever […]

A Better Remedy for Chronic Joint Inflammation

“You see, we are seeing an epidemic of inflammatory diseases.  In fact nearly every modern disease — everything from autoimmune diseases, heart disease, and cancer to obesity, diabetes, and dementia — is caused by inflammation!” Mark Hyman, M.D. As a Physical Therapist I see a crisis in the clinic. People stuck in the chronic pain […]

Delicious Salad Recipe to Reduce Inflammation

“Doctors are learning that one of the best ways to quell inflammation lies not in the medicine cabinet, but in the refrigerator.” Harvard Health Chronic Inflammation and Food Inflammation is common place with Physical Therapy related Injuries. However, you may be unaware that inflammation can also silently lurk and cause disruption in the rest of […]

My gut is healthy, so why am I still anxious?

“Well-being is not about always being safe or fed or comfortable. Rather, it is learning to walk the line between the two, to balance, to move back-and-forth between them with ease and grace.”                                              […]

Gut food and the one toxin no one likes to talk about

  I will never forget her story. A 70 something female, known for being ornery and cranky, with intense chronic back pain. This particular day she lay on the therapy mat, face down, weeping.  The conversation that preceded eludes me, but somehow it had allowed her to open up enough to share the hidden story […]