I remember seeing ads for the Diva Cup many years ago and thinking “that’s disgusting, I would never use that.” And now, I truly can’t imagine my period without a menstrual cup. Yeah, it is actually that life changing and I can’t wait to share this review with you. As someone who is many times late to adapt to new things (Am I the last person to get an Instant Pot?), this also holds true for the menstrual cup. To say I was nervous to try it would be a HUGE understatement, but I am sooooo glad I did it. Read on to hear my full and honest review after using a menstrual cup and why I made the switch. …
Holiday Eating Tips: How to Stay Mindful
As the holiday season begins (it already technically began in Canada weeks ago with Thanksgiving), I know how hard it can be to stay mindful. To stay present. To not want to eat everything in sight. To enjoy the holidays for what they are and just have fun. So I wanted to talk about and share my holidays eating tips with you. I think there are definite practices and strategies that can be put in place that will help us feel a little more relaxed. So that we don’t feel out of control around food and just the holidays in general. So keep reading if you want to find out my holiday eating tips to help you stay mindful….
Weight Loss and Intuitive Eating: Why They Don’t Work Together
Weight loss and intuitive eating, do they belong in the same sentence? As intuitive eating becomes more and more popular in the health and wellness scene I have noticed that some are confusing intuitive eating as another diet. They place restrictions and rules where none should exist and some even seek it out to lose weight. As a Holistic Nutritionist, I used to feel that I should be promoting weight loss because weight = health, or so I thought. It turns out, there is so much more than that and weight loss truly is not the answer we’ve all been searching for. The weight loss industry takes up a massive chunk in the health and wellness space and even when the term weight loss isn’t quite as prominent, it is often times the underlying message. The term “Get Healthy” is often times followed by a thin white woman holding a pair of jeans away from her toned stomach to show how she lost all that weight. And so somehow along the way getting healthy has become synonymous with weight loss. How did we get here?…
The Wellness Business Academy: My Review
I had so much great feedback from part one of my story on becoming a holistic nutritionist from those wanting to get into holistic nutrition and run their own business that I knew I had to write part two. So before you read this, maybe you want to read part one first. The thing is it was really hard to do it all on your own, so I needed to get help, enter the Wellness Business Academy. Because just becoming a holistic nutritionist isn’t enough and neither is all the schooling, sorry not sorry. If you want to make a greater impact, you are going to have to step it up, put yourself out there, hustle and be in alignment with your greater purpose….
10 Ways to Deal with Stress and Anxiety, Naturally
I think it’s safe to say that there is no escaping stress in our lives and finding ways to deal with stress effectively is so important. Unfortunately, anxiety doesn’t seem to be something that a lot of people want to talk about, even though so many people are dealing with it. It wasn’t until this week when news broke about Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain that I thought to myself I need to share more about my own struggles. If its something we all deal with, why are so many suffering in silence?…
How to Become a Holistic Nutritionist: My Story (Part One)
One of the most popular questions I get via Instagram is without a doubt how to become a Holistic Nutritionist and create your own business. It was a good indication that I needed to actually share my whole story on what led me to this career, how I got started and what school I went to. The field of alternative health and wellness and holistic nutrition seems to be growing at rapid speed and I love that this shift is happening. I believe very strongly in the power of alternative health, but that doesn’t mean I also don’t appreciate and recommend western medicine as well. I think that there is a time and place for both and it is never my place to judge one or the other or anyone else that decides what is right for them….
Self Love After Weight Gain: How To Change Your Mindset, Not Your Dress Size
Self love after weight gain is tough, it requires a deep mindset shift and today I am sharing four mindeset shifts that I hope will inspire you to learn to show yourself love no matter what. We are more than half way through February, the month after January otherwise known as Diet-uary. Uhhhmmm, did I just make that up, yes, yes I did. But you know how it goes, January is the month where many attempt to start new healthy habits, diet and of course lose weight. The obsession with weight loss is so real which is why the weight loss industry is a billion dollar business. They work because they prey on your emotions, your fears and society’s unbelievable and unattainable standards of beauty. If January is national diet month, then February is love month, with Valentine’s Day and all. But, what if instead of focusing all our love on things, we turned that inwards and focused on self love. Learning how to show yourself love after weight gain is one of the hardest but most rewarding things I learned how to do. I want to share some mindset shifts that really made self love after weight gain possible….
Advice to My Younger Self
I really wanted to write a post with advice to my younger self to share lessons I have learned over the past 34(!!) years. Seeing as it is the new year and my birthday, I thought it would be a great time to do so. If I think back to my 20-year old self, I don’t think I would recognize her as the same person. Even if I think back only 8-10 years, I still would not be able to recognize that person. So much happened in my mid to late 20’s and it really did change my life forever. But if I had the opportunity to give advice to my younger self, I have a few things that I would like to say.
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What is Self Care And Why It Matters
Self care seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the health and wellness space. And the health and wellness space just keeps on growing, but what is self care exactly? I love that self care is getting some much needed attention, but I think that it can become a little muddled in what it really means to practice self care. Sure, taking a bath in water dusted with rose petals and fancy spas are all great options, but they ignore some of the bigger things. The truth is that sometimes self care isn’t at all Instagram worthy….
My 30 Day Yoga Challenge: What I Learned
For the month of October, I challenged myself to a 30 day yoga challenge, including Pilates along the way. I have done yoga many, many times over the years, but I’ve never committed to doing it on a nearly daily basis. Plus, in the past whenever I did commit to any type of exercise it was always for the wrong reasons, like I thought that I “got fat.” Even when I was practicing yoga, I was so busy judging myself and comparing my body to others in class that I didn’t get much out of it. I knew that this time, I wanted to do things differently… …