Oct 8, 2024 | Digestion, Holistic Nutrition, Lifestyle, Nutrition fundamentals, Nutritional Therapy, Stress
Digestion is a north to south process that begins in the brain. That first moment you think of or smell food, your body begins to produce saliva (enzymes) necessary to digest this food. However, meals are regularly consumed in a rushed fashion- void of presence and...
Oct 7, 2024 | Depression + Anxiety, Food is medicine, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Nutrition fundamentals, Nutritional Therapy, OCD help, Sleep, Stress
I wish I wasn’t writing this from experience. Battling mental health makes you feel like a helpless victim of your own brain- at least it did for me. This post contains a brief overview of supporting elements of nutrition for dealing with anxiety +...
Sep 19, 2024 | Depression + Anxiety, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Stress
Throughout the day, you make aver 30,000 decisions. As the day goes by, your ability to make these decisions easily and with logically diminish. There is a reason why billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs would wear the same outfit every day. They needed to...
Sep 17, 2024 | Food is medicine, Holistic Nutrition, Mental Health, Nutrition fundamentals, Stress
As a nutritional therapist, one of the most common irregularities I see is the reliance on sugar and caffeine for energy. Listen up, sugar is not a dependable energy source. Sugar brings quick energy- but it burns out fast. A few misinformed choices, and you spend...
Sep 4, 2024 | Food is medicine, Mental Health, Nutrition fundamentals, Recipes, Stress
The adrenal cocktail is use to describe a mixed drink containing a few key nutrients needed for optimal adrenal function. When combatting stress either it’s day to day or chronic and intense, the adrenals need proper nutrients to release adequate hormones at the...
Aug 30, 2024 | Depression + Anxiety, Mental Health, OCD help, Stress
The following is my writing for a publication from Her View From Home titled My life existed but I wasn’t in it. To find out how you can submit your own story to their publication, click here. Inside my home, there are journals filled with angry words and...