Tag: hashimoto’s
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Yoga For Healing
A yoga practice can change your life. According to the book The Book of Lymph by Lisa Levitt Gainsley, CLT, “All yoga sequences will get your lymph flowing. Inversions [like downward dog] encourage lymph to flow back to the heart, and twists move lymph through the abdomen… The ceaselessly flowing rivers of lymph are incredibly…
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To Live A Healthy Life
My Yoga classes act as a bridge between where you are in your health RIGHT NOW, and where you wish to be. A bridge leading to your most healthy self. Establishing a consistent Yoga practice is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Breathing, moving, stretching, taking time to care for yourself,…
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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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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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To Calm Anxiety
The Rhythmic Lifestyle is all about living in tune with nature. We are actually part of nature. We have a purpose in the web of life, and it’s a purpose of self discovery and illumination. You’re perfect just as you are. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that though – like ‘why does my body feel…
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When Springtime throws you a Wintry Day
Springtime in the Pacific Northwest is never predictable. Last week my five-year old and I met friends at the beach for a sunny day that satisfied my Vitamin D craving, and more; today, the sky is characteristic grey, a cold wind is making the leaves shimmy, and I think it may rain. When I saw…
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Root Vegetable Delight
I am always looking for ways to make beets taste delightful – they are so packed with health benefiting properties! Beets support the liver. We all know how much the modern-day liver must deal with in terms of environmental toxins, medications and food additives. Giving this important organ support offers a big boost in how…
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