I get it, you want to be “healthy”. Hell, let’s be honest. You want to “seem” healthy, eat whatever your brain craves, and look good. There's a better way than just "seeming" healthy, but involves a few things that most folks run screaming from. Are you "most folks"?
Remember your uncles?
Adults (not loving parents) who at turns scared and inspired you, who crushed you in sprints and beat you at arm wrestling. Here's how to be like them, but better.
View full article →Lee & I recently finished up a 5 day water fast. For those of you unfamiliar, that means 5 days (120 hours) of water only. No food, no broth, no juice, no vitamins, just water. As we were going through it and since we finished, we’ve been asked a bunch of questions about it, so here's a long form write up on it.
Overcome with diet advice? Want to know the difference between AIP, Paleo, GAPS, Keto, and FODMAP? To ease your mind (and sorting through 7 million Google results), we’ve explained the top 5 healing diets – what they are, what you’ll need to consume/avoid and what health issues they’ve typically helped with.
Since I started eating Paleo in 2009, I feel like a new woman. Not only am I stronger and in control of my health for the long-term, but I am thrilled to say I have been PAIN FREE and healed my fibromyalgia holistically (Paleoly) as of July 2014.
It’s not that you just found Paleo, it’s that you’re not sure what to do next. Maybe you’ve been doing Paleo for longer than a month, maybe you just celebrated your first year (mostly) off of gluten, grain, and dairy. You feel good, but you still want to feel better. What do you do now?
View full article →Know what I've learned over the past year? Don't force anything except a hill run. Not ideas, not friendships, not writing, not commitments. Allow yourself to sync up with your own rhythm. Push when you're strong, back off when you're not. If you feel the creative flow coming, block your ears and pay attention. If you're angry, or more accurately, irritated...
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