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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Gluten Cross-Reactivity Has Been Grossly Mis-Reported Gluten is a buzzword (or, to some, a curse word) these days and has been for about 20 years, gaining steam each year. Since gluten-containing grains are not the same as the ancient gluten-containing grains because they’ve been hybridized to contain up to 80% more gluten, there are many people who cannot tolerate it in their…
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Green Smoothie Love The average American eats less than the recommended amount of whole fruits and veggies each day. Even more unfortunate is the fact that the RDA is under the amount of fruit and veg a person should be eating. As a result, the amount of fruits and veggies that people eat each day doesn’t even come close to…
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Summertime and Ice Cream – They Just Go Together For some reason this summer, I have been craving ice cream. Maybe it’s because I’ve been perusing one of my favorite dairy-free ice cream cookbooks deciding what to make for a while now? It definitely has my mouth watering! Since I overhauled my diet to heal my Hashimoto’s and Epstein Barr, I…
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