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Stay in the know with the latest in integrative health tips + upcoming events
Join us for a ladies-only weekend of fun, amazing, healthy food, conscious movement, breathe work, and connection where we will explore the roles of nutrition, exercise, stress and trauma, relationships, and the power of mind-body medicine for cultivating healthy sexuality, strong immune systems, peaceful minds, and healthy weight management.
A perfect diet and all the exercise in the world will NEVER compensate
for a stress hormone imbalance that is robbing your body and mind of
the feel good chemicals it needs to maintain homeostasis. Until you know your stress and trauma, own it, and take the necessary measures to overcome it and create balance in your life, attempting to lose weight and reverse chronic disease will be futile. Likewise, the toxic load your body carries dramatically impacts its ability to function optimally at a cellular level. Upwards of 90% of chronic disease has a root cause of stress and past trauma. Pharmaceuticals and surgeries, more often than not, are employed to manage symptoms. True healing occurs when what caused the disease in the first place is corrected to restore balance to the body. Dietary changes alone are often not enough to facilitate root cause healing. Join our mailing list to learn how to turn on your body’s innate healing capacity to rebalance your body and mind for health, wellness, happiness, pleasure, and aging beautifully.
The Feel Good Toolkit is your resource for bringing your body, mind, and spirt into balance. Everything in the human body is connected, and the mind and body are not separate. When you address the body and mind as a whole, everything begins to harmonize at once. Chronic conditions, pain, mood imbalances, sexual and reproductive health issues, healthy weight management, and hormone imbalances all begin to come into alignment when we give the body what it needs. The best part is, you already have everything onboard to achieve optimal health and wellness. The Feel Good Tookkit is simply your compass. Click on the tools below to learn more on how they can help you achieve optimal wellness.
Give me a fever, and I can cure any disease.
Whether you’re new to integrative, whole person health or looking for new tools to put in your healing tool kit, you’ve come to the right place.
There is only one state of disease in the body: imbalance. Join our mailing list to stay in the know of upcoming programs to ignite your inner healing journey.
I primarily work with women and men looking to use nutrition, lifestyle, and mind/body modalities for healing hormone imbalance, reversing chronic and autoimmune disorders, gut dysfunction, sexual and reproductive health issues, detoxification, and trauma release.
When the body’s resources are allocated to create stress hormones, like cortisol, little is left to produce the wonderful cocktail of feel good chemicals in the body required for health and happiness.
Adjusting one’s own alchemy to tip the balance away from disease and towards wellness starts with approaching health from a place of personal empowerment. Healing is an inside job that requires you be the executive of your own wellness.
For many, assessing stress hormones is the missing link
in the wellness puzzle. In addition to the daily stress of
modern life, unresolved trauma can leave your stress hormone
switch stuck in the ON position. Quantifying your key
stress hormone, CORTISOL,with an easy at-home salivary
cortisol test can be pivotal in taking charge of your stress
and working through past trauma to resolve hormonal
imbalances that are due to an imbalance caused by stress hormone imbalances.
You can't towel off while standing in the shower.
Your body has the innate capacity to heal itself. The human body naturally gravitates towards health and homeostasis. We, however, live in a medical culture that is designed to not only just provide short-term bandaid solutions for disease management rather than addressing the root causes of the imbalances in the body that create illness, but our sick-care system more often than not perpetuates the very diseases it claims to treat. Stop settling for anything less than optimal wellness because a disempowering medical paradigm taught you that diabetes, menstrual problems, infertility, erectile dysfuction, autoimmune disease, heart disease, hormone imbalance, incontinence, yeast infections, and perimenopause were normal. Your body is not suffering from a deficiency in pharmaceuticals. Adding toxins to malnourished bodies is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Industrial food, checmicals, personal care products, childhood trauma, chronic stress, cultural shaming, and toxic thinking all contribute to the creation of an environment in the body that cannot maintain homeostasis. Addressing the whole person, body, mind, and soul is not an “alternative” to Western medicine, it is imperative to cultivating wellness. Our bodies’ natural state is health, love, and pleasure, not disease, fear, and pain. Bringing the body back into balance requires empowering oneself to not be a victim of the system that perpetuates unwellness. Your body already has everything it needs to feel good, finding your way back to balance takes a tremendous amount of courage and sometimes somebody to hold your hand and remind you that you’ve got this.
The caloric model of weight management is dead. Exercising in the wrong way can often add to hormone imbalances that perpetuate unhealthy weight and chronic disease. Learn to exercise smarter, not harder, and exercise your mind in a deliberate way at the same time.
The way we breathe is very often neglected in modern models. Yoga and breathwork use the power of breath to facilitate true healing in the body without pharmaceuticals and surgery. Breath goes beyond just the exchange rates of oxygen and carbon dioxide; it also serves as a modality to move energy and even shape the body.
Romantic and close relationships have the ability to tip the body and mind towards feel good chemistry and energy or towards chronic and acute disease. Learning how to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships is essential to creating wellness.
The lymphatic system is among the most overlooked systems of the body. It’s role in removing cellular waste and regulating the immune system is imperative to building a healthy, balanced body. Stagnant lymphatic fluid leads to build up of toxins and weakened immunity.
Body temperature is often only considered in medicine with regards to acute fever, but low body temperature or abnormal fluctuations can be a key indication of inflammatory and chronic health conditions. Recognizing that low temperatures are not normal can be key to overcoming tricky health problems and using body temperature as a gauge to measure healing is a valuable tool.
In our busy world filled with family and work responsibilities, many of us find ourselves to be the lowest priority on our lengthy to-do lists. When we recognize that putting our own needs at the top of the list improves our availability to show up and genuinely help others, the dynamics of our world begin to shift. The rewards extend beyond just how we feel and manifest in all aspects of our relationships, work life, and finances.
Pelvic floor health extends far beyond sex, pregnancy, and bladder control. The pelvic floor is the seat of health for so many bodily functions for both women and men. In many Eastern medical traditions, the pelvic floor is the “root” of our energy flow. Leaving the pelvic floor out of any holistic health regimen is akin to expecting a tree to flourish with damaged roots.
Digestion is the cornerstone of good health. You aren’t what you eat, you are what you digest. If your digestive system is in a state of imbalance, which is true for most Americans, you will not be able to sustain health in other systems of the body. The gut is considered the second brain and its health is imperative to the production of hormones and neurotransmitters. Learn to love your gut and balance your body and mind.
Any efforts to add elements that nourish our bodies and minds can be futile as long as we are exposed to toxins that continue to cripple our bodies ability to assimilate healthy food, clean water, mindful exercise, and healthy relationships. Removing those forces that impair our bodies is critical to allowing nourishing factors to rebuild and maintain health.
Although insurance companies have deemed the oral cavity to be something completely separate from the rest of the body, the beginning of the digestive tract is one of the most important locations in the body to creating optimal health. Poor diets that create dental caries, toxic materials that poison the body and block energetic flow, and procedures that allow decaying tissue to remain in the body heavily contribute to imbalance and chronic disease. Employing biologic and holistic dental strategies can be the missing link for many people’s quest for wellness.
Clean eating and healthy nutritional habits are usually the entry point into feel good living, holistic wellness, and addressing root causes of chronic disease. Start by crowding out industrial foods, additives, and agrochemicals with organic whole foods and pasture raised meat, eggs, and dairy.
Good sleep hygiene and alignment with the natural circadian rhythms of day and night is imperative to achieving good health. Getting enough quality sleep during the hours of the night that works best with our bodies’ natural chemistry sets the stage for our bodies to maintain homeostasis. Likewise, the emerging field of sleep medicine has shed light on the impact mouth breathing, snoring, and sleep apnea have in maintaining healthy balance of hormones and neurotransmitters in the body. Breathing well and sleeping well are game changers when it comes to feeling good.
Stress and trauma are responsible for 75-90% of all doctor’s office visits, but very few people really understand what stress and trauma are or how they shift the body into chronic stress response perpetuating energy and hormone imbalances that keep people unwell. Learn strategies to take your body out of fight or flight and into rest and digest.
Hormones are the messengers that help our bodies’ systems run smoothly and communicate with one another. When hormone production or balance is off due to many lifestyle factors, stress, trauma, nutrition, and relationship factors, the result is often disease. Understanding how this magnificent symphony works can be the key to creating beautiful music in your body.
Emerging science is showing that fascia, or the connective tissue in our bodies likely operates similarly to a fiber optic network interfacing between the body and nervous system. When we talk about the mind-body or body-mind connection, this is the crucial component that demonstrates the two are one and the same. Emotions are stored in the body and root cause healing is often impossible without addressing this physical/emotional interface.
Healthy sexuality is a largely overlooked aspect to maintaining optimal health, so much so that it, perhaps, should be at the top of the feel-good list. The hormones, endorphins, and neurotransmitters manufactured with sexual expression inside of healthy, connected relationships is not a bonus feature of our biology but an imperative that extends beyond just reproduction. Cultivating sexual health reaps benefits that extend well beyond the bedroom.
