Sleep is powerful medicine and one of the absolute keys for sustainable resolution of chronic fatigue.
Energy restorative sleep can’t be hacked, passed over, or substituted for. Few aspects of self-care are as necessary to our healing and energy as good sleep.
Sleep allows us to power down, repair, replenish, and renew, providing…
You now know that sleep is powerful medicine and absolutely a non-negotiable part of chronic fatigue resolution. It is a key player for all sufferers of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
This is good news because sleep is a part of your lifestyle that you get to control. There may be problems with sleep that…
Chronic fatigue is not your destiny.
You may feel fatigued. You may have been fatigued for a very long time. You may look good but feel rotten and searched for answers but found none.
In spite of your suffering you may have been told, “there’s nothing wrong with you,” leaving you despairing with no solutions.
Know this: that’s just a story. A…
I’m a food girl, first and foremost. A nutritionally savvy, nutrient dense food plan will flood our bodies with energy nutrients and help us avoid the toxins and irritants that get in the way of our energy and healing.
However, there are important reasons for using supplements to augment the nutrition we receive from our food.
In Functional Medicine, food and nutritional supplements…
Precision nutrition testing is our gateway to choosing high quality food and supplements to support our needs for healing and living well.
We know that excellent nutrition is foundational to our energy, strength, and wellbeing and it begins with eating healthy food suited to our unique needs. High quality nutritional supplements can support what we…
I look at the food diaries of clients every day in my office and almost no one consumes enough protein to meet their basic needs in an optimal way.
Protein runs all of the major business of the body: energy, structure, and function. Without enough we are left vulnerable to illness, loss of muscle mass and strength, injury, and loss of vital…
In addition to the energy nutrition of my Foundational Intensive Nutrition Energy (FINE) or Gut-Immune Restoration Intensive Nutrition (GRIN) food plans, many people benefit from more intensive carbohydrate restriction as a further strategy to support energy and reverse chronic fatigue.
There is growing evidence that ketogenic…
Energy is the core of who we are. And it’s the key to healing our most tenacious and painful disorders: autoimmune inflammatory diseases.
There are four core issues that contribute to the perfect storm of autoimmune disorders and their suffering:
I’d like to introduce you to the foundational energy-rich intensive nutrition food plan I use for all my clients to optimize energy and start them on the path to deep healing: The Foundational Intensive Nutrition Energy (FINE) food plan.
Optimal energy nutrition is absolutely essential to heal all forms of fatigue no matter what the underlying cause.
Your grandma was right after all: “You are what you eat.” Literally.
The constituents of our food—each individual protein, fat, carbohydrate, and molecule we ingest—become our proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and…
A breakthrough approach to chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome recovery is the revolutionary science of Functional Medicine (FM). In FM, we focus on the individual and the unique circumstances of their illness rather than a generic diagnosis and statistical averages.
Rather than treat a diagnosis with a…
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a crushing diagnosis.
It means your doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong.
It likely means you look good but feel terrible, so no one believes you are fighting for your life.
It means lost energy, wellbeing, potential. Lost earnings. Lost time with children and loved ones. Perhaps loss of who you used to…
Have you ever been given a medical diagnosis or advise that you knew, deep in your heart of hearts, wasn’t correct? Like maybe they hadn’t heard your whole story and were leaving key parts out? Or maybe they’d heard you but went a direction you did not expect or just didn’t feel right to you?
What did you do?
Did you ask a lot of questions? Did you say, “that doesn’t seem right to me?”…
“This could go very, very wrong.”
“They might hate me for this.”
“This new, uncharted creative project might flop.”
“This investment is risky—it could fail.”
Recognize these fearful, anxious thoughts?
On the one hand, it’s good to be prepared and plan for what life might throw at us. Smart, right?
But what happens when we habitually lock onto those fearful stories about what could happen? In…
We all know how to live a healthy life, right?
We’re smart. We’re savvy. We’ve done our research. We know how to craft the perfect self-care plan (food, sleep, movement, meditation, and so on) to address our genetic legacy, our problems, and our many sensibilities about how we’d like to feel and function at our best.
But many of us just can’t make our best plans work. We can’t sustain…
We need tools to help us manage the challenging emotions of grief, like anger, fear, guilt, and sadness. While these emotions are entirely normal aspects of being human, they can get stuck. It’s important to give them assistance to flow and release.
I have used this simple breath visualization technique on difficult emotions that were too painful for me to take on with my mind. It’s easy to…
Do you ever wonder why we’re here? I mean really—why we’re really here?
How do we sum that up? Can we do it in just a few words?
I think Carl Jung did a pretty good job when he said this:
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.”
I like this because it doesn’t presume a particular purpose with a definable outcome. (Whew!)
And it includes all of…