Sex is everywhere, I mean love #vesselandsoul #butterfly #lovers #love #beauty
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. With this being the most common cancer diagnosis for American women, it’s vital we’re proactive about PREVENTION. Through the media or allopathic doctors office it can be easy to feel hopeless or overwhelmed that this disease awaits us, and there’s little hope but surgery or pharmaceuticals with side effects; but there is hope, knowledge, and tools available to us, and it doesn’t come in a pink washed package of cookies for breast cancer. Previously I shared some key nutritional tips and now some lifestyle tips. PS there’s too much goodness for this medium so to read more head to my website blog. Here’s a few lifestyle steps (and most are free or save you money): 1) ELIMINATE PLASTIC and ALUMINUM CANS from your life as much as possible, especially holding food or drink. Never heat up your food in plastic or drink water from plastic bottles. Xenoestrogens lead to cancer and are stored in our fatty tissue, aka breasts. 2) get rid of all FACE/BODY/BEAUTY CARE and FRAGRANCE PRODUCTS! If it’s not a plant (from the earth, not a factory), don’t use it. @LivingLibations is my top favorite truly clean skincare/oralcare/haircare/etc line. Their Seabuckthorne oil replaced my face wash, toner, and moisturizer, fixed my skin years ago, and smells divine. 3) Replace chemical cleaning products and detergents with natural alternatives. 4) Daily exercise reduces risk and prevents recurrence. We simply gotta do it. Move that body every day for atleast 30minutes. Dance, yoga, hike, sprint, spin, etc. 5) manage stress daily. Set aside a chunk of time DAILY to breathe, meditate, journal, read, etc. 6) Set DIGITAL BOUNDARIES. Keep the phone away from your body, use speaker and headphones, turn it off while you sleep, take digital detoxes daily and on weekends. NEVER hold it in your bra or purse by your chest. For more, see the blog. #vesselandsoul #fmchc #functionalmedicine #healthcoach #breastcancer #breastcancerawareness #fuckcancer #cancerprevention #health #womenshealth #breasthealth Photo unknown, if you know please tell me.
It seems the hummingbird has been the spirit totem for my angel. We see hummingbirds all the time of course, yet I’ve had three visitations in the almost three months since he passed that pulled me into wonder with this bird. A creature so free to fly every which way, flying so fast with near invisible wings, yet you feel them when they come, and when they slow down to watch you and stay a while, it pulls you into presence and wonder of that gift. This morning was my third potent visit that caught me by surprise, after an early morning run in the canyon up to the red rocks, I was sitting in the sunrise and washed with a heavy tide of sadness, missing my happy boy, I was talking to him and remembering how he was always watching me, always bringing me back to joy and presence, and perhaps even now in some way he’s still watching me..and then a hummingbird was humming by my left ear, zigzagging and floating to my left, then swooped down and perched on a branch next to Blue for the next 8ish minutes, a mix of tears and laughter. Strange, perfect, beautiful, ethereal, and brought me back to presence and joy and gratitude as he always did. So remembering again to carry his/my joy and love into everything again. Photo by @phil_torres who lives the dream job of exploring and studying with such beautiful creatures. #vesselandsoul #angel #hummingbird #love #beauty #wonder #nature
Magic Matchamamma Latte taught and inspired by the loveliest mama @pollenarts has been my go to morning magic! I use organic sencha powder instead of matcha as it has less caffeine and more EGCG (the powerful polyphenol in green tea that supports healthy weight, antioxidant and prevents disease like cancer). Add some hot water and a good splash of fresh almond milk, tbsp ghee, tbsp or two of collagen, tbsp or two of raw creamy almond butter, tsp of mushroom powder (I use a blend from Four Sigmatic or Mountain Rose Herbs), tsp maca optional, then a little drizzle of good dark maple syrup or raw honey or couple drops of vanilla stevia. I also often love adding a little splash of Flora Sagrada rose hydrosol from @wildloveapothecary. Blend and enjoy. Nice level sustained energy, nourishing and delicious, instead of the jolt and crash from coffee. What are your healthy alternatives to coffee or matte? #vesselandsoul #matchalatte #sencha #goodmorning #healthcoach #functionalmedicine #nourish #balance #health #yum
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the most common cancer diagnosis for American women, and therefore it’s vital we’re proactive about PREVENTION, listening to signs of imbalance in our bodies, getting knowledgeable wholistic support, and giving to our health daily as best we can. We can’t control everything, and yet there is much we DO know about preventing disease and supporting healing and resilience, and it’s grounded in NOURISHING THE WHOLE ECOSYSTEM of our being so that dysfunction is less likely to take hold or we’re more resilient if it does. Though we may have the genes that can predispose us to this disease, our internal and external environment play the greatest roles. Be it our nutrition, gut health and hormone balance, our stress, and toxicity in our environment, food, or thoughts, small incremental steps are most often what make a grand difference. So if we have a family history of breast cancer or have some concerns, what are some things we can do now? NUTRITIONALLY speaking: 1) reduce/eliminate sugar, processed carbs, and alcohol (except the very occasional special treat). Sugar increases insulin, estrogen, and  inflammation, and feeds cancer. 2) eat a rainbow of diverse plant foods, to nourish your body, balance your microbiome and support healthy elimination and hormones, and phytonutrients to fight off disease. 3) feed your bugs aka eat prebiotic and probiotic rich foods daily like raw sauerkraut, kimchi, unsweetened kefir, miso, etc. These are vital for a healthy microbiome, resilient immune system, healthy hormone metabolism, toxin elimination, energy, mood, and fighting disease. Most of all, if you have a family history of breast cancer and/or symptoms of hormone imbalance, please work with a Functional/Integrative/Naturopathic practitioner to support you in a well-rounded effective root cause approach to balance your body and prevent breast cancer or other dis-ease. Next we’ll look at lifestyle factors and tips. Photo unknown. #vesselandsoul #functionalmedicine #healthcoach #fmchc #healthbite #breastcancerawareness #wisewomantradition #prevention #epigenetics #lifestyle #health #womenswellness #empower #healing #nutrition #breasthealth
Just as the earth can be both frozen and flowering at the same time, so can we be grieving and grateful at the same time. Feeling all the feels, the complex confusion and richness of being human in this world is part of our beauty, when felt with compassion, or pain and destruction if felt with judgement. How easily we judge ourselves for not feeling happy and clear all the time or for being sad or emotional still, etc etc, emotions so often seen as weakness or drama when it’s just being human, feelings are just feelings and they’re valid AND not always how things ARE, just how we’re feeling or processing now and that’s ok, rather that’s good and healing. They’re windows into the heart, into trauma that needs releasing, into loss that needs processing, into space that needs loving, so try seeing more with curious loving eyes and find what’s there for you. It’s a practice. If a friend’s hurting or filled with emotion, be there, listen, really listen, and love. That is all. #vesselandsoul #feelings #emotions #human #beinghuman #love #compassion #grief #beauty Photo and first sentiment by @burnandbloom