SELF LOVE & EMPOWERMENT POSTS

Shattering the Myth of Fasting for Women: A Review of Female-Specific Responses to Fasting in the Literature
One of the more esoteric but much beloved tools in the paleo dieter's tool-kit is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is the practice of maintaining overall caloric intake while consuming all calories in fewer meals or in reduced time windows throughout...

The Real Truth Behind Autophagy Inducing Fasts
Fasting can have vast effects on women's health. If you are unfamiliar with this effects and the stress it can put on your body, check out this post here to get you started. It is clear that fasting is huge in the health and wellness industry right now. Fasting has...

9 Plus Ways to Activate Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
In a recent blog we really dove into why rest is important not just for the reasons we hear often, but underlying reasons. When we are relaxed we aren’t consistently shooting adrenaline throughout our body causing an inflammatory response like when we are stressed....

Top 6 Reasons to Wear a Bikini
For those that are going working through restrictive eating patterns or negative body image, this post may be triggering. Okay, so: I have definitely put off wearing a bikini, or a bathing suit for that matter, for YEARS, like probably half my life easily. Regardless...

The Tool You Need to Manage Disordered Eating
I would say about ⅓ of the questions that come through for our podcast or email have something to do with understanding why our eating patterns are restricted. Or, questions regarding restricting and really, deep down knowing restricting is harmful to our health, but...

Putting New Years Resolutions to Rest
When 2017 started, I dug my toes in and braced myself for what I thought was going to be a ridiculously long, and frankly, challenging year. Being present in my life has allowed me to appreciate life in “real-time”, AKA the present moment. It is crazy to reflect back...