Category: self care
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The Healing Power of relationships when you’re sick
This all started with me getting sick. I caught some sort of virus and was stuck feverish, aching, coughing and feeling like I was going to die. Now, being sick for everyone is generally not fun. And I will admit, I’m somewhat of a baby when I’m sick. My anxiety shoots through the roof…i have…
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Essential Oils: what you need to know
I love essential oils. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I am going to go on and on about how you can cure everything from a leg amputation to a hemorrhage by sprinkling a little lavender oil on it. Well I’m not. So settle down! Truth is, neither of those things can be…
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Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation and why I use it
Today’s post is all about Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES for short and because I honestly don’t want to keep typing that). Often, when I first bring this up to clients, or mention it to other people, the first thing that comes out of their mouth (or that I assume they’re thinking based on the “what…
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5 Things everyone should know about mental illness
Recently my husband and I had a discussion about anxiety disorders. No, my husband is not a mental health professional…but we often find ourselves discussing the topic. Through our recent conversation it got me thinking, there are things everyone should know about mental illness that maybe aren’t talked about in everyone’s homes or on social…
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Cinnamon in my coffee? YES!
Hey all! Recently I became a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider. Wahoo! During my training and coursework for this, we reviewed a lot of different ways to approach mental health, and well, health in general, from a holistic perspective. Long story short, one of the many things it inspired me to do was to…
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Natural ways to help ease tummy troubles when you’ve over-indulged
Yesterday I ate horrible. I’m almost embarrassed to admit how horrible I ate yesterday, but I think it’s a good lesson for everyone. And when I say I ate horrible, I MEAN HORRIBLE. Think everything I’m not supposed to eat- gluten, dairy, processed foods/sugars….and that’s literally all I ate. The only vegetables I ate yesterday…
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Ahhh heat….infrared saunas and the benefits
It’s been awhile. I have no excuses…just been slacking. But I hope to make it up to you all with this post. So tonight as I was relaxing in my infrared sauna I was thinking “I should do a blog post on this….why haven’t I yet?!” About a year ago, my husband and I decided…
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Taking power from shame
I said it. Yep. The “S” word. SHAME. I want to talk about it today and why it’s so powerful and how we can take our power back from feeling shamed. So let me start first by defining what shame is. As one of my professional heroin’s Brene Brown would say “Guilt is: I did…
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It’s okay to ask for help…
Part of taking care of yourself, i.e. “self-care” is being able to ask for help. So maybe you’ve noticed, and if you haven’t, that’s okay too, but I’ve been absent for a little bit. Taking a break so-to-speak. This is partly due to being busy, but also partly because my anxiety has been whacked out…
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