Mindful Eating vs. Intermittent Fasting: Can You Practice Both Without Triggering Emotional

Mindful Eating vs. Intermittent Fasting: Can You Practice Both Without Triggering Emotional Eating Can you practice mindful eating and still follow intermittent fasting? It’s a question I hear often, especially from women who are working to heal emotional eating while also...

The Science Behind Stress Eating

The Science Behind Stress Eating: Cortisol, Cravings, and Emotional Hunger If you’ve ever found yourself reaching for snacks when you’re overwhelmed, anxious, bored, or emotionally drained — even when you’re not physically hungry — you are far from alone. So...

GLP-1 Health Coaching and Sustainable Weight Loss

GLP-1 Health Coaching and Sustainable Weight Loss: Why Long-Term Success Takes More Than Medication If you’re taking (or thinking about taking) a GLP-1 medication for weight loss—like Ozempic or Wegovy—you already know how powerful these medicines can be. They can...

Sleep Better by Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Sleep Better by Balancing Your Blood Sugar Let’s talk about something we all love: a good night’s sleep. For some of us, it’s fleeting and perhaps you’ve “tried it all”. But did you check your diet? Carbohydrates  - specifically glucose...

Mindful Eating: Finding Joy in Balance with Candy

Mindful Eating: Finding Joy in Balance with Candy Autumn has arrived and for my community, that means the Harvest Festival and Parade. This year we praised our oldest son as he marched in the band, and watched with cautious delight...

Time for the Ahimsa Diet

Time for the Ahimsa Diet A new word entered my world and I can’t shake the meaning. This word - Ahimsa - means “do no harm”. It is a sanskrit word to abstain from causing injury. As a wellness practitioner,...

Is Your Posture Straight or Does Your Brain Just Think So?

Is Your Posture Straight or Does Your Brain Just Think So? Let’s talk posture as it’s a frequent conversation point with my teenage sons. I see them hunched over their laptops for homework, and slouching on the couch for video games. Thankfully,...

Massage Satisfies All 5 Love Languages

Massage Satisfies All 5 Love Languages Are you a quality time kind of person, or a gift-giver? If you’ve read The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman then you are one of the 20 million (and counting) who know a new...

Interested in Intuitive Eating? You must do this first!

Interested in Intuitive Eating? You must do this first! Are you fed up with dieting? Good. Fad diets often lead to disappointment and long-term weight gain. So now, you’ve started looking for what you can do to eat healthy and...

Help for Good Health

Help for Good Health My tulips are not the only thing springing up this time of year. A theme has quickly emerged from my conversations with friends and clients. The theme is best expressed as….”I need help!” I feel compelled to...