Here’s another excerpt from the Autoimmune Warrior Bootcamp about the harmful chemicals and additives we are putting in our food that are making us sick. Plus, a cautionary tale about Red Bull… Yesterday we opened up access to purchase the Bootcamp as a complete pre-recorded set. The product contains 14 hours of original content,...
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I went to a yoga class yesterday for the first time in six months. I used to practice regularly, but life went and got in the way, as it’s known to do. In my typical overachieving fashion, I decided that my first time back should be an ashtanga class – a very challenging flow...
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A couple days ago I ran into an acquaintance at the pool club. Her name is Rebecca and her daughter Carly was in the same group as my daughter in camp last summer. One day when we were waiting for our kids to get out of camp, she told me about Carly’s chronic Urinary...
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I’m part of a mother’s circle. We meet once a week and talk about our lives. This week, one woman who I’ll call Rachel broke down in tears and began explaining that she was having a particularly difficult time. She feels unappreciated and overworked at her job and guilty because it prevents her from...
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Since I received such a tremendous response to my Spiders post I wanted to write a little follow up as to how things are evolving over here between the spiders and me. During the last couple weeks I’ve been moving from resistance to acceptance with these little eight-legged dudes. I am finding myself just...
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I don’t receive emails from my ex-husband anymore. Not because he doesn’t send them, but because I’ve set up a filter so they go directly to SPAM. My SPAM folder has much more tolerance for toxicity than I do. But there are loopholes, like this past weekend when an email from my ex got...
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The Dream I just moved to a new rental on Friday. An adorable little house I’d been dreaming of every day for weeks. In my mind I knew what it looked like, what it felt like, the way the light would stream in, the kind of windows and floors it would have, where in...
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The phrase “keep fighting” gets bandied about the MS community quite frequently. Fight the MS monster, fight your disease, don’t give up the fight. I understand how this can be empowering for some people, a cheerleading phrase of encouragement to keep on keepin’ on. However… You and your illness are not separate. Multiple Sclerosis...
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Remember the Chair of Despair I spoke about the other day? For most people, it’s crazy to suggest that how you organize your body shapes your perception of the world. Most people think just the opposite. For example, if it’s nice outside and the sun is shining, I’ll be in a good mood. Rather...
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Dr. Mark Hyman is my kinda guy. I love that he’s willing to stand outside the paradigm of Western Medicine and say “Hey, here’s another way, and it’s a way that’s working.” He recently published a post on his blog UltraWellness about why the current thinking on autism is wrong. He says: “The real...
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