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Using Grounding To Treat Anxiety … What The Medical Literature Says

    I’ve been anxious my entire life.  I can’t remember a day when I did not wake up with a huge knot in my stomach that felt like death was gripping my solar plexus and sneering up at me. Unfortunately the medical literature is pretty clear — anxiety has major health effects, but it’s equally clear that those deleterious health effects are actually reversible.  Meaning, if you suffer from anxiety, it’s very worth addressing, not just for the relief on a daily basis but also for the longevity benefits. Today, as someone who very much knows the felt sense […]

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What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Today I wanted to share some foods that are medically proven to worsen anxiety, and some foods found to help lift anxiety.   Did you know treating anxiety actually adds years to your life span? More on that in a moment. But first, let’s not worsen or trigger your underlying anxiety with the wrong foods. Nutritional psychiatry is a real thing — using nutrition to treat mood disorders can transform your life and make huge shifts in your ability to function and even thrive, despite having a predisposition towards anxiety.   Two foods that might be worsening your anxiety:  

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Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

  Last week I shared a new study that proves and association between Alzheimers Disease and pesticide exposure… and 4 things you can do to decrease your own risk.   This week, I want to continue with the focus on brain health and share with you a very interesting idea that I’ve begun to embrace whole-heartedly… …that gluten may be casting a brain-fog over our entire civilization!     Enter this book: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, by Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of

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10 Ways to Nurture Yourself, Today.

Quick fixes for you today to feel reconnected and happier. It’s part of my chakra series of blog posts… today we are focusing on the crown chakra.   Do you feel lonely? Isolated? Frustrated? Do you tend to be harder on yourself then you would be on others? Do you take things out on yourself, of feel responsible for things that are out of your control? Do you suffer from insomnia? Loss of pleasure in the small things? Lost the spontaneous laugh you used to have?   If any of these things sound like you, let yourself off the hook

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