It happens every weekend. You look to the new week and think, “What the heck am I going to eat next week.” The thought brings on so much anxiety. Simple, whole-food meal planning for Hashimoto’s isn’t always that simple. It can actually be daunting and overwhelming! I’ve been where you are and I want to share with you the pitfalls…
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People ask me often about how to start a professional blog that actually makes money. When I tell them, their eyes glaze over a bit because it can be overwhelming. Figuring out where to start – fuggedaboutit! The problem is, they have this amazing message to share but they never get past the first hurdle: getting their blogs set up…
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You’ve probably landed here because you keep seeing all the hub-bub about Elite Blog Academy (or EBA as their people call it), and you did a little google search to see if Elite Blog Academy is really worth it. You’re wondering if it is something you should run fast away from or try it to help you get your message…
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What’s in Your Pantry Can Determine the Outcome of Healing Your Chronic Illness Your gut is the gateway to optimal health and what you keep in your pantry {or refrigerator} is the catalyst to excellent gut health or awful gut health and consequently, the progression of your chronic illness or the healing of it. Overhaul Your Pantry to Heal Your…
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Lurking in your toiletries can be the toxins that are the root cause of your chronic illness. It’s time to switch to healthier products. Overhaul Your Toiletries in 60 Days to Heal Chronic Illness Getting the chemicals out of your toiletries by overhauling them is a life-changing place to start. It’s important for you to understand just how detrimental the…
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Laughing in the Face of Sleep In American culture, it is greatly looked down upon to participate in any rest or relaxation. Sadly, being able to function on very little sleep is actually applauded. This cultural defect could be the reason why insomnia is estimated to be the #1 health problem in America and the instance of chronic illness is…
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No doubt stress happens in normal life. Adding chronic illness to the mix can cause stress to skyrocket and create a vicious cycle of more dis-ease. As a recovering stress-a-holic, I have written extensively about reducing stress and overhauling your stressors in 30 days because I want you to experience the freedom and healing I have from conquering stress and managing…
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Staggering as it is, according to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated 133 million Americans struggle with chronic illness and that number is set to rise to 157 million by 2020 with 80% of those people having multiple conditions. Due to that sad statistic, chances are either you suffer from chronic illness or you have a family member or…
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The Capability That Stress has to Damage Our Health is Grossly Underestimated in the Population Today. The World Health Organization has characterized stress as a “worldwide epidemic.” With this understanding, it makes perfect sense that chronic illness is on the rise and more people consistently feel bad physically, mentally and emotionally today than in the past. Unmanaged stress is linked…
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All year round we enjoy apples in our family. Anything from green apples to the Fuji variety can be found in our fruit bowl and they’ve become one of our favorite go-to’s for healthy snacks. I also enjoy juicing the green apples since they have less sugar! Since apples are front and center in our home, I decided to create…
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Your Lifestyle Change Does Not Have to be Overwhelming Your kitchen can contain hazardous products and tools that, in order to heal, you are going to want to switch out. I’d like to give you a roadmap for exactly HOW to make your kitchen healthier by overhauling it. When you’re trying to heal chronic illness, there are so many…
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{Confession} before I knew anything about purity and quality when it comes to essential oils, I picked up a few bottles at my local grocery store. I didn’t understand that even though these oils said on the bottle that they were 100% essential oils, they actually weren’t. Furthermore, they contained harmful pesticides, herbicides and even heavy metals! Sadly, I was putting…
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What the Heck are Adrenal Glands? If you would have asked me six years ago what my adrenal glands were, I would have said, “um, what in the world are you talking about, drena what?” Since my health crash, I have learned the profound impact that loving my adrenal glands has on my overall health and ability to heal autoimmunity. Just…
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You Feel Horrible Every Day and Things are Just Getting Worse There’s so much information out there and you’re scared to try anything and honestly, don’t even know where to start. Do you feel this way – like healing is hopeless because you’ve exhausted all your options or you just can’t get clarity for which path you should take? You’re…
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Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when you’ve been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s When I was diagnosed over a decade ago, I was told it was no big deal and that I just needed to take a medication and everything would be fine. That was so far from the truth. My autoimmunity got so bad I almost died because…
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I grew up eating those puddings in a cup and every once in awhile I would make some from scratch from a box. Boy was that pudding tasty! It Was Killing Me Slowly The problem is that the pudding I used to enjoy wasn’t really food at all. It was just a combination of sugar and chemicals that my body…
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You can ask any member of my close family how many times I have said that I feel I am 80 in a 30-year-old body and they won’t even be able to count because it’s been so many! There are days, when struggling with any form of chronic illness, that it’s so hard to even move when you wake up….
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