Nourishing Roots

This work didn’t begin in a clinic or a protocol.

It began in my own body.

For a long time, I learned how to function by staying in my head, being hypervigilant - observing, analyzing, pushing through. As a photographer, I learned to live life behind a lens, witnessing everything from the outside instead of really feeling what was happening within me.

Life eventually caught up with me.
My body kept whispering to me . . . and then speaking louder, until I finally paid attention.

Pause.
Listen.
Feel what you need.

For me, that looked like reconnecting with what truly nourishes me:
connection, space, freedom, and selfcare

Healing didn’t come from fixing myself.

It came from learning how to listen.

Rooted in my own experience with autoimmunity and dyslexia, I guide women back into alignment with their bodies through nervous system support, food awareness, emotional awareness and mindful movement.

Your body isn’t the problem.
It’s the place where healing begin

If this resonates, pause for a moment and notice: what is your body asking for right now?

Anxiety can creep up on anyone from childhood to old age. I see clients in my practice who have struggled with anxiety as long as they can remember, those who just recently developed anxiety in perimenopause or menopause, and those who noticed they started feeling more anxious after having a covid infection or other illness.

Here are 5 causes

🌸 Gut impermeability: This occurs when our gut lining is not fully intact allowing for pathogens, allergens, and food proteins to slip through into our blood stream. With gut impermeability, there is often nutrition insufficiency or malabsorption of food leaving us depleted in the necessary cofactors for optimal brain function.

🥬 Inflammation: This can be inflammation in the gut, in the brain or anywhere else in your body sending a stress signal.

🧠 Dopamine imbalance: This can occur with the ups and downs of estrogen that affect norepinephrine and dopaminergic pathways. It can also occur when the necessary cofactors are depleted.

🌻 Pyroluria: This is one not many people know about but affects many of the clients I see. It occurs when pyrroles bind to zinc and vitamin B6, making them unavailable to the body, leaving us depleted in those nutrients necessary for brain health.

🍎 Methylation issues: Methylation is a simple biochemical process that is important for many functions in the body including neurological, detoxification, metabolism of estrogen and histamine among others. Genetic and environmental factors, especially lifestyle both contribute to how well this process is functioning. When our bodies are struggling with methylation, our mental health can certainly suffer.

It's important to find the root cause of Your anxiety and not just throw things at it that could be more harmful that helpful.

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One of my favorite exercises I use with clients to help regulate the nervous system is The Basic Exercise created by Stanley Rosenberg. This is a fantastically easy way to help get your body back into “socialization” mode or rest and digest before an important meeting or stressful conversation. Use it as often as you like, laying down, sitting at a chair or even in your car. Let me know how it goes in the chat!Enjoy and Happy Friday ❤️❤️❤️#thebasicexercise #anxietysupport #autoimmunedisease #gutbrain #vagaltone

Yay!!! This was literally the first thing I read when I woke up this morning. Thank you H 🩷Feeling So grateful for my job! I have done the work to heal my own autoimmunity and gut issues and am honored to be part of and witness such deep healing in others 💞#autoimmunedisease #gutbrain #deephealing #guthealth #nervoussystemhealing