The quality of your menstrual cycle - the quality of your bleed (or abscence there of), your PMS symptoms, your pain levels, your physical changes - It all forms a symptomatic picture of your health status over the past few months. Your period is quite literally your monthly report card. 🩸👸🏻

THIS IS FOR THE WOMAN WHO is looking towards fuelling her body with whole and nourishing foods for optimal health!! I want to remind you that eating GETS to be simple. Focus on creating 3-4 balanced meals throughout the day (or 2 meals if that suits you best) that are each comprised of...

I no longer approach my health (my fitness, my nutrition, my relationship with my body) from a place of what my mind wants. Instead, I let my body lead. I let my body tell me what she needs, wants, desires. And equally what she doens’t need, want, or desire. And this has been GAME CHANGER!

Your body is ALWAYS trying to find a sense of balance (technically called homeostasis), and whenever you experience any ‘symptoms’ within your body, essentially those symptoms are the manifestation of your body adjusting to something and trying to correct anything that may have been throwing it out of balance or ‘homeostasis’.

Part of basic IBS support and management involves navigating flare-ups. 💁🏻‍♀️ These are uncomfortable, frustrating, awkward, and downright inconvenient at the best of times. 🙄 BUT they are my body telling me it isn’t super happy about something. Read on to learn my super actionable steps for ongoing IBS support and flare-up management!

Ideally, anything that is going on within your own gut is able to be treated, healed, reversed, corrected, eliminated. Life is too short to be spending hours and days and weeks (and longer) worried or concerned about what your gut is doing. Read this blog to find out whether your gut-related symptoms are actually IBS, and how to manage them.

Within each monthly cycle, women experience dips and trophs of estrogen along with other hormones that are also involved with the menstrual cycle. These hormonal shifts lead to shifts in the way we think, in how creative we are at any point in time, how intuitive we are, how social we feel, our energy levels, how hungry we feel, and how much we can physically manage at any point in time.

If we think about how our current state (our weight, size, energy levels, etc.) are *generally* a reflection of our lifestyle and health status up until that point (more specifically our lifestyle and health status over the last days, weeks, even months or years), it makes sense then that in order to see or feel a shift within our state as a result of our recent changes in lifestyle habits (ie as a result of changing things up and adding in new healthy habits) it will TAKE TIME (days, weeks, months, or years) to see that shift on a physical, mental, and/or energetic level.

Without adequate rest and recovery as a part of your general day-to-day life, the imbalances created by the general business of life and consistent exposure to stress such as lowered levels of immunity, slower recovery time, and trouble sleeping, will start to compound.