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Can You Heal on a Limited Budget?
How do you heal when on a limited budget? Many people think that you need disposable income to afford high end organic foods, expensive supplements, …
How do you heal SIBO?
What is SIBO? SIBO stands for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and it is where opportunistic strains of bacteria overgrow in the small intestine. This can …
Are you a highly sensitive person or do you have a microbiome issue?
Are you a highly sensitive person? Or do you have a microbiome issue? The truth is that a lot of times what we think of …
How to Make Sauerkraut and Other Fermented Vegetable Options!
Ferments hit different after you have started resetting the microbiome! That is why it is very important to introduce fermented vegetables slowly, and no sooner …
The Truth About Saturated Fat
People have a lot of questions about saturated fat! This often comes up with my clients because a lot of the dietary protocols that I …
All About Yogurt, Kefir and Sour Cream
Fermented foods are the cornerstone of gut microbiome repair. Unfortunately, the yogurt you buy at the grocery store is mostly flash fermented. This means that …
Meat Stock: The Magic Healing Power of Soup!
What is meat stock? Is it a powerful tool when it comes to healing the gut lining, plus all the nerves and collagenous tissues of …
Why Healing Your Hormones Means Healing Your Microbiome!
People who are dealing with some kind of hormonal imbalance often ask why I am talking to them about healing the gut when they are …
Myths About Ketosis
Before we get into myths about a ketogenic diet, let’s talk about metabolic health in general. Metabolic health is basically how well our body is …
All About B Vitamins
Okay, so let’s talk about B vitamins. B vitamins are essential for our nervous system function. If someone is coming to me with any kind …
Is Neuromeditation Right For You?
Mike Welch is our resident Neuromeditation coach here at Whole Body Healing. Neuromeditation is an excellent nervous system regulation tool that is accessible to do …
Stop Food Fear!
Stop fearing whole foods! In this video I discuss why “pro-dieters” and “anti-dieters” get this wrong. There is a reasonable middle ground we can find …
The First Steps I Took on My Healing Journey
My healing journey was trial and error! I don’t recommend everything I did early on in my recovery because I was still learning- and it …
Excuses, Discomfort and Transformation
There are two trends I see sabotage people when trying to heal. One is going off your healing protocols because you get sick- a cold …
How to Build Resilience Back
How do you build resilience back? The key is to find the balance between pushing the edges of your capacity in a helpful way that …
Should I do a parasite Cleanse?
Parasite cleanses are totally “in” right now! Is this really a good idea? First, we have to remember that parasites are a normal part of …
Mindset for Healing
It’s funny how things come full circle… Many of you know that I started my career as a mental health therapist. In my work as …
Startling Information about Histamines
Before we start, we must make it clear that histamine intolerance and mast cell activation is a SYMPTOM of a deeper root cause. Everything we …
Healing is a long game…
We are so used to the idea of “healing” being a quick fix presented to us by a surgery, pill, or a week long “cleanse”. …
Detox Heavy Metals with a Holistic Approach
Are heavy metals a root cause to your gut dysbiosis? One major reason is that some people struggle so much with candida and parasites is …
What’s the best sugar alternative?
What’s up with SWEETNESS? The sweet flavor in food is not inherently bad. People have been eating sweet foods in traditional societies as far back …
How to read a nutrition label
How do you read a food package? It can feel daunting to learn how to decipher food packaging, but here are the key steps: Ignore …
Red Flags to Look Out For When Choosing a Practitioner
There are a lot of clinicians and practitioners out there advertising their services. It’s hard to pick what path the follow! People are often confused …
How to Optimize Sleep
Resetting Your Circadian Rhythm: Essential PracticesThis is a 20 step process to fully reset your circadian rhythm. Regardless of which type ofdisrupted sleep you have, …
How to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve
Vagus Nerve Exercises:Use these daily practices to stimulate your vagus nerve
What Can We Learn From Traditional Diets?
Principles of traditional diets: Dr. Weston A Price was one of the first Westerners to travel the world looking for traditional cultures that had not …
Has Your Brain Been Hijacked By Microbes??
Is your brain being hijacked by microbes? Most of us don’t realize, but our minds are run (in part) by the microbes living in our …
Why you are stuck in a “cleanse and binge” cycle!
People get stuck in cleanse-binge cycles because they think they are eating “healthy” but they are actually starving themselves! By and large, people who come …
Healing is Messy
The healing process is complex. It is not clear cut or linear. Many people feel like there is going to be a predictable line of …
What I Ate to Heal MCAS: My Transformative Journey
I get asked all the time: what do you eat day to day? My diet now is very different than the diets I was on …
How to Use Light to Heal Your Nervous System
A lot of people with chronic illness find that if they redesign their lives around natural light exposure, their healing progresses at a much faster …
What Can We Learn From Traditional Diet
Nourishing Traditions – The Legacy of Weston A. Price and the Power of Traditional Knowledge Weston A. Price was a dentist who in the …
Treating Breathing Disorders
Treating Breathing Disorders Breath is often called the force of life- and it truly is in both a literal and metaphorical way. However, the power …
STOP Fighting Your Own Immune System. Working WITH Your Body, Not Against It, Is the Only Way to True Health
The Synergy of the Microbiome We assume the worst of our bodies. We cover ourselves in anti bacterial soaps, take antibiotics, disinfect ourselves and our …
No Bad Kids: How to Address Child Behavioral Problems Holistically
There is no such thing as a bad kid. There are only imbalanced brains. Imbalanced brains can manifest as many types of behavioral problems in kids, …
Is There a Universal Healthiest Diet for Humans?
Is there a universal healthiest diet for humans? This is one of the biggest questions of our time! With the explosion of nutritionists, health …
Healing ADD Naturally
Healing ADD: Assessing and Working with Your ADD Type Forgetting your wallet- again. Getting stuck scrolling endlessly on social media. Unable to get out …
Why You Can’t Rely On Plants for Protein
Why Animal Foods are the Best Protein Source for Improving Mental Health The one thing carnivores, omnivores and herbivores all have in common is …
Using Vibration for Vagus Nerve Health
Using Vibration for Nervous System Healing Our nervous system functions and communicates in frequencies. This can be understood on a strictly scientific level, as …
To People Who Say “I’ve Tried Everything- I Just Don’t Heal”! Here’s Why What You Tried Didn’t Work…
I’ve heard it many times. “I’ve tried EVERYTHING, and nothing works. I just keep getting sicker.” I get it! You’ve tried all the popular …
Assessing and Improving Vagal Tone
Friends! I’ve been doing nervous system healing work for years and this ASTOUNDED me. What if you could assess and improve the function of your …
Guided Visualizations
Guided Visualization for Safety and Grounding Visualization for Acceptance of Emotions Visualization for Trauma Release Visualization for Inner Child Healing
The Power of the Vagus Nerve
The Power of the Vagus Nerve If we are trying to understand the connection between mind and body, we must consider the vagus nerve. …
Travel as Ceremony
Everything you do is sacred. Every experience can be a ceremony. My partner Mike and I just got back from an almost 4 week long …
How to Deal with the Unexpected
And keep your relationship intact! My partner Mike (Ritual FitCraft) and I discuss ways to deal with unexpected adversity and chaos while strengthening your relationship, …
What Diets Will Heal Histamine and Mast Cell issues… and Which Won’t!
There is a difference to REDUCING SYMPTOMS and REVERSING THE DEEP, ROOT CAUSES OF YOUR ILLNESS! Here are the primary factors we need to take …
Healing Brain Inflammation: An Underlying Cause of Mental Illness and Cognitive Decline
Have you ever felt like your brain wasn’t working? Many people today struggle chronically with lack of motivation, problems with executive functioning (organizing tasks), …
Are Psychiatric Medications the Answer?
If we assume that we need a medication to fix mental illness, we also assume that the illness is a simple malfunction that only …
Food and Feelings: Heal Your Emotional Relationship with Food
Food and Feelings: How to Heal Our Emotional Relationships with Food People have complex relationships with food. Whether it’s a history of engaging in fad …
Could Amino Acid Deficiency Be at the Root of Your Mental Illness?
Have you been to talk therapy for years without a significant decrease in your symptoms? Do you practice all the coping skills and still can’t …
A Nervous System Based Approach to Healing
How to Make Friends with Your Illness Understanding Health and Illness Through a Nervous System Based Perspective Making friends with your illness may seem …
Nutrients Needed for Healthy Hormones!
Hormones matter! They are a major dictator of our mood on a day to day level. Anyone who has gone through hormone replacement therapy …
The Crimes We Commit Against Our Gut: These Foods are KNOWN To Trigger Allergies Through Leaky Gut!
Your gut lining is the major modulator of your immune system. If we have chronic inflammation in the lining of our gut, it creates micro …
Sleep Is The Ultimate Detox
Sleep is so often seen as an after thought to our self care routines. But good quality sleep is essential to our health! Sleep is …
A Starving Brain is a Stressed Brain!
We talk about stress management a lot. Popular psychology discusses the impact of our relationships, work life, finances, and emotional state on our brains. And …
My Story: Healing from Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
When I was 25, I started getting sick. Really sick. Every day, I felt like I was dying. I started getting escalating symptoms in every …
Polyvagal Theory
Up near the base of the cranium where the vagus nerve connects to the brain stem, it splits into two branches. The ventral vagal and …
The Basics of Nervous System Activation
This chart is a fantastic visual illustration of the nervous system to help understand the different activation states. As you go higher up in the …
Triune Brain
The brain evolved in three major bursts: one when we were reptiles, one when we became mammals, and one when we became human. Each part …
The Important Role of Our Nervous System
Our nervous system is a giant sensory organ. It is constantly gathering information about the state of our bodies, our environment, our relationships, and our …
What is TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises)?
What is TRE® (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises)? TRE® is a method of discharging excess activation in the nervous system. Developed by psychotherapist and body …
