Did you know it’s possible to accidentally lose 50 pounds? I did. My family and I dieted for years and it never worked, at least not for long. We experienced that wretched dieting yo-yo effect in which we regained more than we lost. We would get so hopeful and motivated, then when we ended […]
Healthy Hedonism Carrot Cake (or Cupcakes) with Faux “Cream Cheese” Icing
Learn how to modify a recipe to reproduce this amazing dessert! Traci here! It was my birthday last month. My dear friend and fellow healhty hedonist, Nicole Holley (aka The Conscious Cake Queen) asked me if I wanted one of her cakes for my birthday. Is that even a question? Of course I wanted a Nicole […]
Video: What the #$*! is organic and is it really that important?
Join us for this video as the tables turn and fellow wellness professional, Rebecca Kelso of The Healing Coaches, interviews me about whether or not organic is really that important and what it even means. She asks really good questions from the lay consumer point of view and some of the info here may surprise you! […]
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 […]
“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 […]