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.

If your healthy habits aren’t feeling good for you, or you struggle to maintain consistency with them, it could be that you are approaching them from the wrong angle. Read more to learn how, and what to do about it..

Our menstrual cycle, which occurs across a monthly cycle, involves various shifts of a number of hormones including estrogen, throughout each week of that monthly cycle. Our chemistry literally changes week-to-week across any given month, and this means that our nutritional needs vary as a result.

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.

Limiting beliefs, which are formed when we are young (we all have them about one thing or another), remain with us as we grow until/unless they are challenged or re-written. Unless we do the work consciously re-write these stories, we are at the mercy of them. And it can be REALLY hard to push through them.

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.

Stepping outside your comfort zone: An act that can at times feel like the absolute scariest and most terrifying option available to you- So much so that the mere idea of embracing it has you feeling that your life might end as you know it, and that you would be left totally exposed and vulnerable without knowing where to turn next or how to find your way forward.

If you have ever felt triggered by the idea of embodying a particular emotion, ashamed or put-down for expressing your sexuality, embarrassed for wearing certain clothes or for showing up a particular way, or even felt triggered when someone ELSE does/says/has a particular look that you wouldn’t feel comfortable expressing yourself, then lean into why. This is your shadow coming up: any area of yourself that through shame, pain and programming, you have learnt is not worthy, lovable, enough.

Have you ever noticed that the more something feels truly ‘right’ for you in your core, the more you fight it, run away from it, ignore it?… maybe even for years… or for your entire life? Read this to find out how to get out of your own way.