Forgiveness and loving are the foundations of health, abundance and joy. Both are intertwined with one another for our benefit, and both are the basis of health. When we foster these tools life meets us differently, and I believe that includes our health. Often when individuals take steps to include loving into their healing plan,…
7 Ways to Make Illness Work For You & Zucchini Cheese
Zen Proverb: The Obstacle Is The Path How much do you dislike your disease VS. how much it has the potential to bring joy to you How much you dislike your life VS. the ability to transcend adversity by using it to your advantage How we frame up our circumstances matters because…
Importance of Sadness
“It’s not the tears we cry that hurt us, but the ones we struggle not to cry, for they drip within our sad and weary hearts.” Goethe Oh we are all running away from sadness aren’t we? It is such a strong emotion with some serious staying power. I can tell you that…
When You Don’t Get Better On The AIP Diet
I hear this quite a bit on Autoimmune Paleo social media: “I am not feeling as good as I want on the AIP diet”. Maybe you feel marginally better? Or maybe you feel quite a bit better but not as good as you want? There can be a number of reasons for this. Using an…
Autoimmune Adventures Podcast!
I was so very fortunate to meet Julie Stiles, who is a Health and Transformation Coach in the Bay Area. She has recently started The Autoimmune Adventures Podcast which all of you should know about. It is a podcast dedicated to a different look at autoimmune disease. While embracing all of the dietary and holistic…
My Personal 10 Pick-Me-Ups
We all have those days. Either too full, too stressful, too empty..you know just ‘too’ of something. I have little pressure valves that are a bit like tricks up my sleeve that are guaranteed pick-me-ups. I thought it may be time to share my list with you. We can compare notes. I would…
Self-Compassion for Autoimmune Disease
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is usually the most difficult period in one’s life.” — HH Dalai Lama I don’t have an autoimmune disease. And I don’t think it matters because what I do know is that struggle is struggle. Pain is pain. It is not discriminatory to the circumstances…
The Loving Diet Program & Blueberry Maple Sausages
The wound is the place where light enters you – Rumi I miss blueberry pancakes a lot now that I am AIP. I have not had a pancake in over two years . And the coconut flour ones just don’t cut it for me. But last week while shopping at my new local…
Being Knocked into Our Center
I am writing this post to both you and to myself. A week ago I moved from my sweet, small little town of Nevada City to Oakland, CA. I am a big believer in trusting signs in my life, and in a short amount of time, doors spontaneously opened and I decided to walk…
DIY Red Wine Vinegar & Suffering
First, making your own red wine vinegar is an almost effortless, fun and very, very tasty kitchen project. But before I get to that, I want to talk about suffering. More of my professional life focuses on suffering rather than joy. Most seek my help because they are suffering in some way. The grit playing…
Pork Burgers And Trusting Your Life
I was watching Arianna Huffington on OWN’s Super Soul Sunday recently. In the episode Arianna Huffington from the Huffington Post, shared a Rumi quote with Oprah: “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” This touched me in a deep way because my own teacher said something almost identical a few years…
Why Autoimmune Disease is Joy In Disguise
How do you find joy in the middle of a disease? Or a crippling accident or a painful loss like a divorce, death or job loss? We can call it autoimmune disease, or being laid off, or natural disaster, but I call it “Joy In Disguise.” Because what is joy after all? My definition of…
Scallops with Spinach Parsnip Mash & Relaxation
How many of you have time each day you set aside to relax and appreciate yourself? Of all the things I do professionally this is the most challenging aspect to grow with my clients, including myself. Many people want to know what the most effective form of stress reduction I recommend. The MOST effective stress…
5 Ways To Become Happy Today
Wherever you are today, whatever you may be feeling today, I want to tell you that it is not too late. For anything. However Autoimmune Disease has taken hold in your life, you get the choice about how you want to define your relationship with it. And no matter what decision you have made…
Illness as Tranformation
Consider all that makes up your life. The family members, where you live, relationships, career, spiritual practice and your health to name a few. Add all of those together and you get your own secret sauce called Your Life. And try as we may to separate these categories (How could your Hashimoto’s disease be related…
Loving Autoimmune Disease
Do you remember what your first thoughts were when you were diagnosed with your autoimmune disease? It may have been disbelief, anger, relief, fear, grief…all normal reactions. And then the dust may have settled, and a few weeks later you started to feel a bigger perspective emerging about how to best approach your illness long-term….
Nicky’s AIP Success Story
Meet Nicky! She has been on AIP since last October. She came to see me and spoke about her exhaustion, body aches, bloating, skin problems and constant digestive issues, yet had never had any kind of diagnosis from doctors. After years of going from one practitioner to another, including general physicians, rheumatologist, opthamologist, GI specialist, naturopaths,…
A Love Note To You!
5 Heart Centered Approaches to Autoimmune Disease
Here is a bit of news you may not know about us: It Is Not About The Diet. Yes, we are here cooking, loving, developing, researching. But the science and outward experience of disease is a physical one and we are dedicated to the experience of our hearts. That is why our site is called…
Cara Cara Orange Salad & Loving What is Present
So many people are eating light right now. I have been loving all the instagraming of The 21 Day Sugar Detox. Diane also wrote Practical Paleo which is the most recommended book in my nutrition practice to my clients. It is the most comprehensive how-to Paleo book I have found. I think that a transition…
3 Ways To Reframe Difficulty
For me, struggle is struggle. It doesn’t matter if you are dealing with an autoimmune disease, broken heart, cancer diagnosis, betrayal or grief. All of those scenarios can cause a person to ask themselves the same questions or make observations that may include: why is this happening, how can I stop feeling this way, why…
Watching The Pebble Drop: A Meditation
A lot of you may not know a whole lot about me. On my pre-AIP life food blog I shared a lot of my ups and downs in my life from the past four years when my husband and I split. Our split was a torrential amount of grief and suffering I had never experienced…
How An Autoimmune-Paleo Nutritionist Eats
In the clinic I work at, we recently started to carry Spectracell testing. I was super excited because Spectracell tests MTHFR genes which can inhibit methylation pathways in the liver and wreak havoc on many body systems. I decided since I am a nutritionist and I tell people all day long what to eat and…