Your thyroid… If it’s working well, you feel great. And if it’s not, well, then you not only may not feel so great, but you may also not know what’s causing you to feel that way. Here’s the thing, most women I see in my hormone testing and health coaching programs Read more…
There’s a lot to talk about with supplements right? What to take, how to take them, why are you taking them, and for so many women just downright confusion about all of these questions. I have personally been a supplement taker for decades. I feel like they have really contributed Read more…
I bet you hear about “balance” all the time, right? Life/Work balance Balancing your schedule and my favorite (of course) Balancing your hormones Balance can be a tricky thing though, and what is balance anyways? The media paints balance for women as being able to do it all, all the Read more…
I talked with a lovely woman this week, and her comment was that she was “frustrated with the medical system”. Have you ever been? I know I have, with my own health and hormones issues, and that is the REASON that I became certified in Functional Medicine! Navigating our health Read more…
Peri-menopause, do you know what’s happening? I remember 25 years ago when I became very interested in women’s health, I was a chiropractor treating patients for back and neck pain, sports injuries and trauma. I remember my office manager in my practice that was going through hormonal changes and it Read more…
How’s your Mood? Do you ever think about your mood? Are you ever irritable, short with others (because they are getting on your last nerve!), or maybe your family tiptoes around you sometimes? Or you just feel crabby or low, and don’t know why? You may not even realize that you Read more…
Do you ever struggle with your ENERGY? Energy is one of those things, when you have good energy throughout the day you may not think about it. But when you don’t have it, it may be ALL you think about. The lack of it, the tiredness, needing a “pick me up”. Read more…
I got back into the yoga studio last week, a new studio for me, to expand my self-care to nourish my body and mind. It was time. My beloved yoga studio closed during the pandemic and never reopened. I was feeling isolated, and I was isolating. I’m a natural introvert, and moving Read more…
Are you curious why gut health is such a hot topic? Or maybe even what the heck a gut microbiome is, and how this relates to your hormones? Gut health is a hot topic in the forefront now, as it should be! I help women balance their hormones naturally and gut Read more…
The Paleo Diet, Part 2 In part 1 of this series I talked about what it means to optimize your metabolism with the low carbohydrate approach to eating. There is a lot of science and research to support low carbohydrate ways of eating, which includes low carb diets, Paleo diets Read more…