After months of being stuck in our houses and having our routines disrupted, the world is finally starting to open. While we still need to be careful to stay healthy, restarting our fitness routines will go a long way to establishing our new normal. I cannot wait to return to the gym and I love […]
Cortisol Craziness
Cortisol Craziness In this hectic, busy world, people often live in a state of constant stress. The continual running from activity to activity with little time left for sleep and just relaxing forces our bodies into triggering the “flight or fight response”. The flight or fight response is great when we are faced with life […]
Reasons to Move Your Body
Exercise is one of the most important ways that you can take care of yourself. Find something that you can make a regular part of your life, you enjoy participating in and then engage in that activity for at least 30 minutes a day. You can divide the 30 minutes up throughout the day. Just […]
Good Mood Food
As a mental health professional, I see a steady stream of people of all ages struggling with anxiety and depression. Unfortunately this summer, traditionally a time I see a drop in referrals, has been very busy. It seems we live in an anxious world. My dual training in mental health and nutrition often leads me […]
Melatonin
One of the biggest issues that bring clients in to see me is their sleep. It seems many of us are struggling to maintain healthy sleep. Not only does chronic lack of sleep leave you feeling grouchy and tired, it can cause serious health problems like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure or […]
Thanksgiving Recovery
After a five days of fun and overindulgence with my family, I am ready for a return to my regular eating patterns. At the Refinery yesterday, one of the other members asked me how to recover after all the holiday fun. We both sort of laughed but I know I need to refocus on the […]
Happy Tummy=Happy Mind
Everyone has heard the terms “follow your gut” or “gut feeling” but until recently most people just thought these terms were a figure a speech. With recent science advances, however, we are discovering there may be more truth to these statements than previously thought. Science is exploring the impact of gut bacteria or the microbiome […]
Eat Some Healthy Fats
For most of the Eighties and Nineties, fat was considered something to be avoided at all costs. People went to great lengths to replace fat in their food, often by adding sugar and other fillers to replace the taste and satiety feeling fat provides. Luckily, however, fat is beginning to make a comeback in our […]
