The holidays are a time of joy and togetherness, but they can also create chaos and overwhelm. Sometimes, the extra obligations, family triggers, and diet culture messages can steal our seasonal cheer and cause emotional and digestive distress. This is why I started a series of tips to help you feel more ease during...
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Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Tips for Digestive Health: Natural Ways to Sooth Bloated Bellies and (Holiday) Gut Distress
The extra hustle, bustle, and events leading up to the holidays can result in feeling stressed and overwhelmed. This constant bombardment of to-dos can cause one to feel jaded and to disengage in the festivities. Besides the additional activities and family triggers, diet culture can rob one of the joy of savoring once-a-year yummy...
Holiday Stress That Hits You in the Gut and The Best Essential Oil for Holiday Bloat
We are approaching the celebrations of the most holy days of the year, yet not everyone is taking pause to gently reflect. This is because the time leading up to these gatherings can be hectic, stressful, and loaded with extra commitments. The additional hustle, bustle, and commercialization can prevent one from feeling excitement in...
How to Enhance the Benefits of Gratitude with Essential Oils
The annual American Thanksgiving holiday allows us to take a pause and be with our loved ones. The higher intention is to express our gratitude for our blessings from the past year. To symbolize our abundance, many will gather around the table to enjoy a large, yummy, multi-course feast. Besides allowing ourselves to be...
9 Key Considerations for Integrative Thyroid Care and How Essential Oils Support Thyroid Health
It is critically important to consider the health of our thyroid for our overall wellness. This endocrine gland produces hormones that influence almost all our organs and helps to regulate many of our physiological functions. Due to the thyroid’s far-reaching impacts on our various body systems, having a thyroid disorder can put one at...
Is Your Thyroid Responsible for Your Health Symptoms? Why Your Thyroid Health is Important and Integrative Resources to Optimize Thyroid Function
It is estimated that about 12% of the American population will likely develop a thyroid condition in their lifetime, according to the American Thyroid Association. Still, about 60% of those impacted are undiagnosed and unaware of their condition. Due to the thyroid’s interaction with most of our body’s systems, this can put people at...
My Five Favorite Essential Oils to Boost Focus, Attention, and Memory
Essential oils are one of my favorite modalities, because they are so versatile and truly holistic. They can be implemented into any integrative wellness plan for any reason, including for addressing cognitive issues. In my previous video, I reviewed eight main causes of poor focus and how essential oils can aid in remediating the...
Eight Reasons Why You Can’t Focus and How Essential Oils Can Enhance Attention
Recently, many of my posts have been on the topic of improving mental health. This is for three main reasons: We are in the midst of a mental health crisis, and psychiatric diagnoses in our youth are rising in prevalence. The solutions to this acceleration of mental illnesses in our population have been shortsighted....
Integrative Mental Health Resources to Support Emotional Balance and Back-To-School Stress
Children and adults are up against extreme stressors living in our modern world. This time of year, pressure is especially high due to the additional demands of back-to-school combined with concerning world events. With all these troubles, parents, teachers, and kids are being forced to cope with so much more than the back-to-school jitters,...
How to Protect Yourself While Living in a Toxic World Part III: Purifying Your Water
These past few weeks we have been reviewing the importance of how to clean up and green-up our lives to protect ourselves from the toxic world we live in. The ubiquitous chemicals found in our food, environment, personal care products, and cleaning agents create havoc in the body and are linked to various diseases....