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Your 2024 Healing Mantra
Hello you! We made it! Today it’s 2024. So here is your annual reminder: Your body is completely new inside and out every few years. All of your organs (except for one) completely regenerates, repairs, and optimizes on a continuous basis. Some parts of your body are so fresh and new that they are only one day old… the cornea of your eye, for example. Your cornea can completely regenerate every 24 hours. Some parts are a little older… the lining of your intestines, for example, are about 3 days old. Your skin is about 1 month ...
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In Case The Holidays Aren’t So Happy… Ways To Move Through Your Grief Today
The holidays can be a time of great connection and warmth and love, but they can also be a time of great longing and grief over missing loved ones. Today I want to share an article for you on easy ways to be gentle with yourself and allow grief to move through you, in case it can be of comfort in the pain. Scan the list below and see if there is just one or two things you can do today to help nurture and flow with the waves of grief you may be feeling. And if you ...
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You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead
Are you having fun yet? As much as the holidays can be a meaningful time of connection, damn can it be stressful. You might typically associate stress with a tension headache, or difficulty sleeping at night, or being in a bad mood. But did you know stress also causes weight gain? But if you don’t know that stress causes weight gain, you’ll probably wind up blaming your diet and then stress out about every bite of food you eat. But that’s not necessary. In fact, stressing out about what you are eating actually contributes to more weight gain. ...
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The Sugar You Eat Ages Your Face: How To Reverse The “Sugar Sag” In Your Skin
Last week I blogged about healthy party foods that you can find at almost every holiday gathering — hop over here if you want to be armed with a list of my top 5 party foods that I reach for before heading into your holiday parties and New Years Eve celebrations. The Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings And just to be clear — chocolate is one of my go-to foods on that party list. And yes I know there is sugar in chocolate. If you want to read more about the astounding ...
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The Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings
Last week was Thanksgiving. That usually means food. It also means folks are stressing about their weight. More on that at the end of this blog post. Whether holiday parties are stressing you out, picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments, even joyful holidays can be stressful ones. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you ...
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Your Body Is Almost Entirely Made Out Of Stars, Here’s How To Celebrate It
As a physician, every single cell in our body is literally like a miracle to me. How it functions, replicates, repairs, lives, dies, replaces. The fact that our skin is self healing, our bones fuse back together, we breathe and our heart beats while we use our body to do other things all day long without even thinking about it, how we create life, how little humans grow within us and are born. The fact that all of it, almost every bit of it, comes from cosmic dust and stars — it’s all just so damn magical. We ...
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The Healing Power Of Connecting With Others & How To Get More Of That Connection
If you are gathering with folks you love over the upcoming holidays, you are actually boosting your health! And if you are alone or not able to connect with others in the upcoming days, there are lots of ways to still boost your health through the power of connection — practical tips on that in a minute. But first, let’s review exactly what the health benefits are of connecting with others — something to keep in mind if you feel yourself growing irritated or annoyed or triggered by your loved ones over the holidays. Even if they are ...
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The Last Possible Date To Order Holiday Gifts From My Shop + The Best Holistic Healing Gifts
My holiday deadline this year is Nov 15th because I am moving to a new office (yay!) in early December, which means I will be closing my shop to new orders for the first half of December. I need any orders that you want to gift for the holidays to be placed by November 15th please!!! Orders placed after Nov 15th are not assured to arrive for December holiday gift giving. Speaking of gift giving, need some unique gift ideas? Want to be sure you are giving something that no one else will give the people in your life ...
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The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?
I just returned from a medical conference where I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Ankur Patel, MD present on the risk of taking multiple medications. I was shocked to hear : that adverse drug interactions is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, and someone dies from a drug interaction every 5 minutes in the United States alone. that if you are on 5 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction is 58% that if you are on 7 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction ...
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Winter Sleep: 12 Ways To Hibernate Now For A Deep Reset Before Spring
One of my main goals in writing free healing articles for you every single week year after year after year is to help link your body to the natural seasonal rhythms of the world around you — taking the seasonal variations into account in your healing journey allows you to more easily get an instant health boost — and long term being in a season rhythm is much less stressful on our body. Similar to eating seasonally available fresh foods in rotation throughout the year for your gut health, your sleep needs also fluctuate throughout the year. In ...
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