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Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

The Elimination Diet is the gold standard for determining food sensitivities, food intolerances and food triggers. It’s a fascinating process filled with some challenges, but mostly triumphs!, like feeling 150% better than before doing it.

I’ve helped hundreds of clients through this process with my 5 step RENEW! Elimination Food Plan, and have come up with some ‘Survival Tips’ to make the process easier.

Once in a Lifetime, I was a Figure Competitor

Once in a Lifetime, I was a Figure Competitor

Once in a lifetime, about 10 years ago, I did a thing. As I am almost turning 50, I reflect back to the time I competed in my first (and only) Masters Women’s Figure Competition in Austin, TX. This blog is devoted to what I can remember.

Lift the Veil

Lift the Veil

The veil of hiding may very well be fear, or anger, or of staying the same. It could be the veil of, I’m not good enough, or they don’t like me, or of protection or expectations, or ‘shoulds’. It could be a veil of wishful comparison, or that of not being true to who you are.

Whatever the veil of hiding, they all conceal you from your reality and who you are. These coverings keep you from being seen by those who love and admire you and want to be connected to the true you, because, well, you are loved so deeply.

A Moment of Self Care

A Moment of Self Care

Sometimes we lose track of who we are, there is so much external noise and pressures. Many of us are feeling lost and potentially disconnected to our authenticity and our real-ness. My Self Care Toolbox is a way I re-connect to myself and my reality and how I can create a moment of stillness to allow me to feel and return to who I am. I open it up and share some of it.

Maybe creating a little Self Care Toolbox for yourself could help you too?

Honor Your Past

Honor Your Past

Honor your past, what an incredible reminder… ‘no tomorrow without a yesterday’. You get to acknowledge all of the amazing things you’ve done in your life that have made you the gift of who you are today!

And yes, you have gone through some $hit. But the truth is, you have made it! And you get to choose which memories you hold on to, which memories you cherish, and which ones get left behind for a day when they become useful to you.

Loving Yourself

Loving Yourself

How can you return to loving yourself if you get into the rut of being less than kind to your body, mind and spirit? One way is through journaling. Pen to paper, no one watching, reading, looking, hearing- except you and the scratch of your thoughts.
Need some prompts to help you return to loving yourself? They are in this blog.

Bloom Where You are Planted Nurse Coach!

Bloom Where You are Planted Nurse Coach!

You know Nurse Coaching will help people realize the power they have over their health, and have been dreaming about owning your own Nurse Coaching practice. A colleague has taken the first steps to open her business, but you are not in a position to quit your well-paying Nursing job… yet.

So, what do you do? Bloom Where You are Planted!

Learning New Things

Learning New Things

Learning new things like, a new language, playing the guitar or taking up drawing can strengthen the connections between your brain’s nerve cells. Even participating in leisure activities like reading books, a trip to a museum, & writing letters protect your brain from amyloid protein buildup. Keeping your brain engaged by learning new things even improves your memory- and who doesn’t want to remember where they put the keys?!

Is an Elimination Diet for You?

Is an Elimination Diet for You?

You’ve heard the term Elimination Diet, but aren’t sure if it’s for you. After coaching hundreds of people through the Elimination Diet process, we’ve created a list of common themes that describe why our awesome clients decided to change their life by discovering how food really affects them!

We bet some of these client’s thoughts, questions and comments have crossed your mind too. Read on to learn more. And when you are ready to take action, join our next online Group Elimination Food Plan, that starts soon!

Nurse Coach Case Study

Nurse Coach Case Study

Nurse Coaching is an honest, professional and authentic option for clients (and Nurses) who want to take a different approach than the traditional healthcare model.

Nurse Coaches, who are Registered Nurses with exceptional education and experience in health coaching, step out of the way and encourage clients to safely explore, while listening deeply and offering powerful Nurse Coaching questions.

What to Expect from a Nurse Coach

What to Expect from a Nurse Coach

Nurse Coaches are a distinct breed of Nurses completely focused on enhancing the health and well-being of their clients, patients and communities.

Nurse Coaches deeply listen to uncover the stories unique to you, and then use these stories with your life experiences to co-create a wellness plan that fully supports and honors your health.

Three Easy Tips to Clean up your Pantry for Brain Health

Three Easy Tips to Clean up your Pantry for Brain Health

Cleaning up your pantry for brain health is one simple and actionable thing you can do to nourish your brain and body. Plus, your ability to make nourishing food choices is one of the most effective Lifestyle Strategies you have.

You make multiple food choices throughout your day- breakfast, lunch and supper come to mind. These important choices can lead you to a life filled with vitality, clarity and a powerfully functioning brain, or lead you to a life filled with fatigue, brain fog, and an overall lack-luster appearance and mood.

Cleaning up your pantry for brain health in this way will help you reduce toxins and inflammation at your cellular level and keep your cells functioning with clarity and strength!

Alright, let’s clean up!

Eat from the Rainbow to Build Brain Health

Eat from the Rainbow to Build Brain Health

When you eat from the rainbow of powerful plant foods, you make a choice to build your brain health, and when you take care of your brain, you take care of your whole body! Here, we showcase plants alongside the colors of the rainbow, plus science & tips to make eating plants easier and fun.

Subjective Cognitive Decline Awareness

Subjective Cognitive Decline Awareness

Subjective Cognitive Decline is when you admit that you notice something is off related to your brain. Now, of course nobody wants to say their memory or brain is ‘off’... but what if you know something is 'off' and don't say anything- even though YOU KNOW something isn't quite right? Well, you lose your power. That’s right! I said it. You lose the power you’ve been working on your whole life because you don't say “YES!” to yourself and your needs! This blog is all about Subjective Cognitive Decline- and you will gain power when you read it. So read it! 😉

Ways to Prevent Dementia

Ways to Prevent Dementia

Let’s illuminate seven different Lifestyle Strategies that are scientifically proven ways to prevent dementia. Lifestyle Strategies are fancy words that mean the behaviors and habits you do, or don’t do on a daily basis. Your daily habits and behaviors can enhance and protect your brain and body health, giving you the power to BUILD Your Brain Health and live life with vitality!

Living with Dementia

Living with Dementia

Imagining living with dementia is a small consideration you can do to begin understanding what it might be like to be with it, on a daily basis. I’d like to share a story of what I have learned about what it could be like to live with dementia.

I never imagined the depth of what I would discover about living with dementia, until this happened.

Health, Wellness and Wholeness: A Lifelong Process

Health, Wellness  and Wholeness:  A Lifelong Process

Your life journey is constantly evolving, as is your body, mind, spirit, culture and environment, so cultivating these areas of health, wellness and wholeness keeps you aware and fully alive.

Epigentics Gives You a Say in Your Brain Health Destiny

Epigentics Gives You a Say in Your Brain Health Destiny

Scientists now know that although you can’t change the genes you were born with, you can control how the genes express themselves by your daily behaviors, or your lifestyle. Lifestyle choices can help you protect your brain health.

This newer science is called epigentics, and you have a say in your health destiny!