NEVER MISS A MONDAY You may have heard the saying “never miss a Monday” tossed around the blogosphere and social media in some sort of an attempt to motivate you to drag yourself off the couch Monday morning and start the week off with a bang. Normally this is used in the context of fitting in a workout, although it … Read More
Hungry, Hungry Hormones: Cravings and Fat Loss
Cravings have a number of sources that can be tied to little or poor quality sleep, stress, and emotional upset. The single factor in common for all of those issues is your hormonal health. While other factors like nutritional deficiencies and dehydration can also play a big role in cravings, it’s often the hormonal factors that are left out of … Read More
Hormonal Birth Control, Part II: Healing from The Pill
Are you on the Pill? Coming off of it? Been on it at any point, or struggling with any type of hormonal issue? Learn the exact steps to rebalance hormones and feel comfortable in your own skin with the FREE Hormone Happy Handbook. Grab your copy here. Earlier this month I posted all about my personal experience going off … Read More
Estrogen Dominance: How It’s Affecting Your Body and What to Do About It
Struggling with hormonal issues? Grab your FREE Hormone Happy Handbook to walk you through the exact steps that will rebalancing your hormones, help you regain energy and feel more comfortable in your own skin. Download your here. Estrogen dominance is becoming much more prevalent in the modern world for a variety of reasons, and I think this is a really … Read More
Hormonal Birth Control, Part I: Why I Stopped Taking The Pill After Eleven Years
Are you on the Pill? Coming off of it? Been on it at any point, or struggling with any type of hormonal issue? Learn the exact steps to rebalance hormones and feel comfortable in your own skin with the FREE Hormone Happy Handbook. Grab your copy here. Quick note before we begin: I am fully aware and appreciate that the … Read More
When Overwhelm Hits
We live in a fast-paced world where stress is considered the norm, and being “busy” is often considered a badge of honour. Unfortunately, neither our bodies nor our minds respond well to this constant and sometimes self-induced stress. Moreover when we are under a great deal of stress, it’s easy to let any form of self-care fall by the wayside … Read More
We Are What We Eat: Food, Mood and Mental Health
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard this saying before, and when I sat down to write this I was curious about the origin of the saying. It turns out it was written in 1826 by a French physician who strongly believed that what we consume affects our state of mind and our overall health. In fact, there is evidence … Read More
Why A Morning Routine is Key to Success (and General Awesomeness)
What’s the deal with morning routines? I’ll let you in a little secret. All of the people I know who are successful have some kind of a morning routine. I’m not kidding, ALL of them. Even if it’s something they do every morning for only 5 minutes, it’s a ritual that can take various forms, and it has become … Read More
Consistency in 8 Steps
I think for the most part, people realize that better health doesn’t happen overnight. Many of us may have already tried the various diets, cleanses and detoxes that claim to help us lose weight, but the road to being comfortable in our skin and in great health is not a magic pill. It’s about making consistently healthy choices most of … Read More
3 Simple Success Strategies for Consistency
Perfection is not a sustainable activity. I would know, since I used to try and eat the “perfect” meals every day that left me with massive cravings and wanting to eat everything in sight, which I would end up giving in to within days (or sometimes hours) of starting the latest new fad diet or severely restricting calories. The all-or-nothing attitude … Read More
