Yes, You Can Afford Healthy Eating. Here’s How

“He who has a why can endure any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche   Yes, You Can! You know the feeling of defeat before you even begin? It’s that perfectionist in us, the one who says, “I can’t so why even try.”  I often tell my boys, “Can’t is a curse word.”  At ages 9 and 11, […]

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 […]

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 […]