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How Yoga Heals
Dear Reader, Have you ever heard of the Vagus nerve? It’s the nerve that wonders through the body, from the brain to the various organs. It’s the communication highway between the brain and the gut. Let’s look at pieces from the article Vagus Nerve as Modulator of The Brain – Gut Axis and Inflammatory Disorders…
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How To Make Homemade Chicken Broth
Dear Reader, Let’s start with the recipe! This homemade broth features in much of my cooking. I’ll talk about why it’s a powerhouse in healing autoimmunity after the recipe. How to make bone broth Ingredients (organic wherever possible) 1 whole chicken (I just got a good one at Trader Joe’s – but most grocery stores…
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How to Become Calmer
This time of year can be hectic. There’s a lot going on! And when we suffer from autoimmunity, the busyness, the constant stream of information, the intensity of the world – hits us even harder. What can we do? We can BREATHE. This isn’t trite. Think about it: you could live for like 40 days…
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How to make easy Gluten-free muffins
It’s good to be grateful. It’s also important to be real. And if your autoimmunity is flaring, you may not be over-brimming with gratitude. And that’s OK. Understandable, even! At least it is to someone who’s been there (me). There have been holiday meals where I felt absolute panic over the food. Can you relate?…
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Create Your Reality
Thoughts stimulate emotions, which cause us to act. Actions create our reality. Therefore, thoughts create our reality. Whirling thoughts stimulate hormones like cortisol to be released. This is a stress hormone that, if released too often, causes havoc in the body. Stress eats away at the gut, and a compromised gut leads to impure blood.…
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How to Feel Better
Have you been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s or another autoimmune disorder? Are you living with the symptoms, like low energy, feeling heavy, problems digesting food, depression, anxiety? You may feel as if your body has totally betrayed you. Getting through your day feels like trudging through quicksand, and the best word to describe how you feel…
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How to make healing chicken breasts for dinner ~
When we begin viewing our food as medicine, the real healing begins. I don’t believe in ‘diets’ in the traditional sense of the word. Dietary regimes based on mindsets of self-shaming, self-punishment, and denial don’t work if you have autoimmunity. The last way of thinking you want to crystalize is one that attacks the self.…
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Autumn – A Season to Heal
Freedom comes when you take charge of your own health. No one else can do it like you can, because there’s only one YOU, and each person is unique. You have a constitution that’s only yours – a body type, a certain way you respond to stress, a life history. You are a true original.…
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Simple Gluten free muffins
A gluten free lifestyle has many benefits. A calmer and happier gut is one of them. Living with an efficient digestive system is life changing. Imagine: no more bloating, constipation, or diarrhea. Instead, your system easily eliminates waste in a productive morning bowel movement. You are free and clear to enjoy the rest of your…
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Spring Equinox
I’m wishing you all a beautiful Spring season. The equinox was last week, and as it coincided with a full moon, it was a powerful one. This time of year feels more like the new year to me than January 1. The light is new, and I feel new also. I have been writing a…
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