Insights, Research & Reflection
Findings from the field of nutrition, trauma healing, and integrative wellness. Written to inform and inspire.
Food for Thought: The Power of Food
As the pandemic unfolded, the mental health epidemic slowly began to reveal itself. Typically mental health (particularly the darker side of it) remains shrouded in taboo and silence. Most people who struggle with it do so in secrecy, never revealing the extent to which they are affected.
Food is not merely fuel. It is information. It is medicine. It shapes our mood, cognition, and capacity for healing in ways we are only beginning to fully understand.
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Life By Design Not Default
One of the reasons I've been reluctant to write about nutrition has to do with what I suspect is at the root of why many of us play small: shame. Shame prevented me from improvement for years...
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Seven Ways To Stimulate The Vagus Nerve
The gut is not only the key to health but the key to happiness as well. It plays a role in stress modulation by transmitting signals to and from the brain via neurotransmitters along the vagus nerve...
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Intermittent Fasting for Health and Happiness
Intermittent fasting has been an approach to food and diet for thousands of years. Monks, yogis, and laymen pursuing spiritual fulfillment used fasting as a tool to attain purity and enlightenment...
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The Difference Between Meditation and Breathwork
Breathwork and meditation are often confused. The two are not, however, the same. Breathwork is the intentional manipulation of the breath for extended periods to induce various effects on mind and body...
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New on SubstackWhen Dissociative Daydream Helps You Survive
A true millennial, I dreamed of a big important life with a big important career, likely set to a K.T. Tunstall soundtrack. A raw, personal essay on survival, identity, and what it means to come back to yourself.
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