Traci and I have been considering dropping, or at least reframing, words like health and wellness from the vocabulary we use to describe what we’re all about. In our experience, people often associate these words with renunciation of worldly pleasures, extreme diets (often vegan) and a whole lot of hard work and self-restraint. This attitude […]
Part 2: Is Social Pressure Keeping You Sick? How to Work, Play and up Your Food Game In an Age of Chronic Illness
Do you feel like you have to choose between having a social life and having your health? You don’t. You can have it all! Let’s be real. We are social creatures. It’s in our DNA to want to share food and food culture with each other. However, what happens when whole societies’ ways of eating are […]
Is Social Pressure Keeping You Sick? One Woman’s Journey out of Chronic Illness
Welcome to our third podcast! Can you think of moments in your life when you were struggling with your health and happiness? Did you notice situations where concerns about fitting in or societal expectations got in the way of you making the right decisions that will really help you heal? If we’re honest, we all […]
“Natural” Part 2: Navigating Marketing Tricks That Rob Nature of Its Meaning
First of all, we think it’s unnatural to have to think so hard about what’s natural. Geez… When we started our healing journey, we didn’t know each other yet, but we each saw an undeniable pattern in which the more raw materials from the earth were processed—the more they were manipulated genetically and in a […]
“Natural” Part 1: What Does It Really Mean and why Does It Matter?
More than likely, your impression of the word “natural” is, at least in part, from the marketing words on the products you buy and the ads you see. It often conjures up images of quaint family farms, happy animals living freely on the land and healthy plants living in harmony with nature. What it fails […]
FAQ What Protein Powder Do You Suggest?
We get some variation of this question from clients all the time, so we figured why not share it with all of you! Now, before we launch into our answers, let’s address the question of whether you would benefit from using protein powders to begin with. We can’t really answer that question, because we aren’t […]
Let’s Take the FAD out of FOOD
What are you? Paleo? Vegetarian? Vegan? Raw vegan? South Beach? Whole 30? Atkins? Eco-Atkins? Weight Watchers? Jenny Craig? DASH? Mediterranean? Pescaterian? Flexitarian? Macrobiotic? Probiotic? Presbyterian? Muslim? Jewish? Mormon? Catholic? Buddhist? Hindu? Unitarian? Atheist? Agnostic? New age? Spiritual but not religious? Which are there more of? World religions or diet fads? We’re guessing diet fads. If you’re […]
What Really Causes Belly Fat? Reasons for weight gain you may not know about and what you can do to change it.
Toward the end of high school, I started putting on weight. Because most of my family was overweight, I was terrified that I was genetically predestined to be obese. So, I would read teen magazines to figure out how to lose weight and get rid of belly fat. The best advice they had […]