Is a slow metabolism caused by "bad genes".... or being over 40? The answer is No. If your metabolism is lagging and dragging, you've got yourself a RHYTHM problem. In this episode, we'll retrain your metabolism, using the "rhythm method". I'll teach you how to establish a healthy food-rhythm in order to work with your body, not against it, and you will boost your metabolism as a result.

Part 2 of our Hormonal deep dive! Your hormones can be your best friend instead of your worst enemy.

In this episode you'll learn how blood sugar balance and self-talk directly influence your estrogen and progesterone, and what you can do to feel better in your body now.

Hormones.. that word doesn't have to make you shudder with dismay. Our hormones can be our best friends, not our worst enemies. Today, we'll talk simple tips to make that shift.

Every aspect of your life influences your hormonal health from genetics to gut health, to your job, relationships, your self-talk, your home and personal care products, and more.

Make Intermittent Fasting (IF) work for your unique body in a way that is sustainable, sensible, and effective.

When done correctly, IF can have countless benefits. But when done incorrectly (ie the mainstream way) it can spike anxiety, cause weight gain, and worsen all digestive issues. You deserve much better than that!

In this episode we'll break down IF in a way that is easy to digest... pun intended!

Are you and your family catching every cold and virus that comes along? Try these 3 simple home remedies for quick relief.

In this episode I'll share:

1) A super effective Aromatherapy Steam, using White Thyme essential oil, which has powerful natural anti-bacterial, anti-viral properties. This is an easy, 5-minute technique that will loosen mucus and act as a natural expectorant.

2) The easy, delicious recipe for Agni Tea - an ancient Ayurvedic remedy that will kick your immune system into full gear to shorten the life of a cold or sinus infection.

3) The food group to AVOID when you feel a cold or respiratory virus coming on. Yes, this food can make sinus and bronchial conditions worse, creating more mucus, inflammation, which prolongs the duration of a cold or virus. We do NOT want that!

Could You Have a Mineral Imbalance? Most of Us Do...

In this short, sweet episode we focus on HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis) testing. This simple test (just a little snip of the hair) can give us profound insights into what is happening in your physiology and driving your symptoms.

I share my own eye-opening experience with HTMA, in treating my adrenal fatigue and rebalancing my electrolyte (another word for minerals) system, and how I'm using it with Beautifully Balanced clients, with amazing results.

Also, it's open enrollment, to start Beautifully Balanced in January! I only have 10 slots, and I like to give BB podcast listeners top priority!

Beautifully Balanced is ~ 3 months, 7 steps to heal your gut, hormones, and anxiety, to live your BEST life. We can do it together, using the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and the moderns science of Functional Medicine.

4 Tips to Recover Quickly from Holiday Overindulgence

Did you enjoy a little too much food and drink last night - and now you've got the gut troubles to prove it? Heavy stomach, nausea, sluggish bowels, heartburn?

No worries! In this episode I'll teach you 4 simple tips to feel better and get your metabolism and energy back on-track quickly.

This topic is super-relevant to our time in the calendar year: Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, holiday gatherings of all kinds. Evenings, filled with more wine, desserts, rich foods, dairy (extra cheese and butter, anyone?), meats, more inflammatory cooking oils, and even fried foods.

These tips are also helpful for anytime you may have unintentionally (or intentionally) eaten more than usual, and been left feeling heavy, sluggish, nauseas – directly afterwards, or even the next day.

I even used these tips last week, after eating out at a restaurant renowned for its fried chicken (whaat?). Needless to say, I felt terrible the following day. But, I had these tips up my sleeve, so I recovered quickly!

You can get back on track quickly by doing a few simple smart things!

Listen and try them this holiday season - or anytime you need to boost your metabolism, energy, and reboot your gut health.

Getting back on track quickly is helpful because you and your body deserve it. It is also especially important if you have:

Digestive issues - like IBS, GERD, constipation, food sensitivities, etc.

Hormonal issues like PCOS, PMDD, perimenopause, or fertility issues, or if you are

Overweight and/ or trying to lose weight – the holidays can be a big trigger time and a slippery slope.

But don't worry, I've got you covered with these simple tips. Here, you are seen, heard, and loved!

Want to dive deeper, together?

Get your personalized plan, and be lovingly walked step-by-step through a transformative and fun holistic journey with me as your guide.

How to Use Lab Testing to Finally Get to the Bottom of Your Symptoms

My medical-mind has been absolutely blown by what we're uncovering for clients (and myself!) using Functional Medicine Labs.

"Test, Don't Guess" is a saying in Functional Medicine. It means that we need data to truly get to the root cause of persistent, mysterious issues.

I was a skeptic for almost a decade. Afterall, lab testing can be prohibitively expensive. Not to mention, I have helped hundreds of clients experience healthy success, break-throughs, and big benefits without running pricey labs.

But now we are taking holistic treatment to new level and labs are a piece of the puzzle! In this episode I'll tell you:

Who is lab testing for? Who can it help?

If you don't do anything else - do this.... In today's episode I am sharing my top 3 simple and 100% CRUCIAL tips to reset your body into a mode of natural healing.

I wish I could go back to my 20s and start these practices then! But alas, we live and learn, and now I get to share these life-changing rituals with you. Try them on in your life, starting today, and witness an energy and metabolic boost, deeper sleep, enhanced moods, and so much more.

Spoiler alert: this isn't about eating a perfect diet or working out "x" number of hours each week. It isn't even about the perfect herbs or meditation for your dosha (Vata, Pitta, or Kapha - and if you don't know yours yet, take my quick quiz and find out HERE).

It's all about rhythm. Creating a flow in your day and your LIFE. By practicing these 3 strategies regularly we create a dependable, grounded foundation of vibrant health. This cues your physiology to turn down the inflammation and calm the overactive nervous system (both of which impede digestion and accelerate aging).

Dark Chocolate Cravings - What They Mean and How to Choose the Best

It’s one of many people’s favorite treats – dark chocolate! Mmmm.

If you love or CRAVE dark chocolate, this episode is a must listen!!

This bittersweet treat is lower in sugar and higher in an anti-oxidant called flavanols. So, it's a better choice than many other packaged sweets.

And if you know me, you know it’s my thing. But just like any other sweet treat: dark chocolate spikes our feel-good hormones and is quite craveable. So, it can be a slippery slope for many reasons.

Not to mention: not all chocolates are created equally – or have any health benefits for that matter.

So, today, we'll dig into what your cravings may mean, what to do to address the Root Causes of your cravings, and how to choose the healthiest chocolate.

Fall is brisk and gorgeous, but the blustery days and chillier nights often lead to symptoms like dry skin, digestive irregularities and sensitivities, increased gas, bloating, and anxiety, among others.

Not so fun, right? Not to worry! In this episode I'll be giving you the Ayurvedic lowdown on foods, drinks, and lifestyle tips that will help you experience all the sweetness of autumn, without the common symptoms.

Want to dive deeper, together?

Two-Ingredient Fall Elixir for Better BMs and Glowing Skin

Move over expensive superfood powders! There's a new (actually very ancient) 2-ingredient tea elixir in town, and it should be your go-to drink this Fall season.

It’s Fall in the midwest! Temps are dropping – and our body’s needs are changing. But this drink is healing and anti-inflammatory to drink in whatever season you may happened to be listening.

The yummy 2-ingredient drink I am going to tell you about in this episode has transformed my digestion – and that of so many clients. One client, who had loose, urgent stools (which suggested long-time inflammation in her gut) drank the "Pitta" version of this elixir, and after just 1.5 weeks, she began to have healthy formed stool, for the first time in years. No more urgency. No more burning. Just comfortable, healthy daily bowel movements.

Ask These 3 Questions Before Taking Rx Meds (can even use these to aid in the weaning process)

To medicate or not to medicate, that is the question. In this episode, I'll share some of my personal (and clinical) experience with this important, and very personal decision.

Good health does not have to be black and white, as in: you are a success if you never pop and pill; and failure if you do. I see many patients and practitioners alike get caught in this divisive way of thinking.

To dispel the holistic hype: I'll share with you about how I successfully treated infertility, anxiety, constipation, and migraines, naturally. I'll also get a little more vulnerable and tell you about more recently, when stress and life pressures lead me to make a different decision: to take a prescription medication (that I had been sitting on for almost a year!), and how I felt peaceful about that.

Stop doing these 3 things and feel better in (and about) your body immediately. This episode is the ultimate, "Do This, Not That" - healthy weight edition! Here I'll teach you how to approach weight loss differently: wisely, intuitively, with your precious guts in mind, and as A FRIEND, NOT A FOE of your body.

Because it's my #1 goal to spare you the time, energy, and heartache that go along with chasing a number on the scale! You know I’m not a proponent of weighing yourself in the first place. In fact, I tell all my clients to hide or donate their scales. Seriously. What the scale says has ZERO bearing on who you are or how you FEEL in your body. But, if you’re struggling with your weight, or have been for years… or decades – it’s undoubtedly effecting your quality of life!

You are not feeling good in your body, and it is my ultimate mission to help you feel good in your body – and feel good about your body.

I struggled with my weight for decades. When people see me now say, “Well, you are naturally thin”. But, I wasn’t always thin – in fact from about age 15 to age 30 I weighed 20-30 more lbs than I do now. And on my small 5’3” frame, that was substantial.

I Yo-yo dieted for years, trying everything: Slimfast, Richard Simmons' Deal-a-Meal, veggie, vegan, Atkins, Paleo, Keto, etc...

But nothing really clicked until I found Ayurveda and got more in-tune with nature, learned my dosha and how my digestion worked it all balanced out naturally, automatically. My body reached and maintains its ideal weight easily.

Are you standing in your own way? Using your mind against yourself... keeping yourself stuck with your own negative thought loops? Today I will give you a process to change that starting now. For more health, peace, happiness, and physical, mental, and spiritual FREEDOM.

Today we'll dive into how most of us are harming ourselves with our thoughts, judgments, worries and self-criticisms that we accept as truths. We'll talk about where they come from, evolutionarily and spiritually (hint: it's all about fear), and most importantly how we can shift our thoughts for a happier, more beautiful and healthy life!

I'll share a simple but powerful 6-step process: How to RELEASE the long-held negative conditioning that's been keeping you stuck! After doing this 5-10 minute process, you'll finally be able to move forward vibrantly. You'll be more ready to evolve into that next amazing version of yourself that is just waiting to blossom.

Drip-coffee, cold brew, espresso, lattes and mochas.. Coffee can be a delicious ritual, and many of us depend on it to get through our day.

But drinking too much, or doing it at the wrong times of day, or in the wrong order with food …. can make your anxiety sky-rocket, put you in stress-hormone overdrive, disrupt your hormones, derail your sleep, and contribute to IBS, acid reflux, loose stools, or even constipation (I’ll tell you exactly how that works later).

Today, I'll give you 4 crucial coffee tips so you can enjoy intelligently - without derailing your digestion and hormones.

Make these 2 simple switches to protect yourself and those you love from hormonal issues, estrogen-dependent cancers and obesity...

Are you ready to understand your anxiety in a whole new way? Let's dive in to an Ayurvedic, mind-body-spirit perspective!

Anxiety can include chronic stress, overwhelm, worry, and scattered, fearful thinking - and if it's severe, you should always consult with a qualified mental health professional.

Today, I’ll clue you in on what you might be inadvertently doing that’s triggering or worsening your anxiety – and I'll give you my top 3 simple tips to soothe, and even prevent it. These are easy, quick things you can incorporate every day to reverse the hold that anxiety has on your mind and your life.

By understanding anxiety through the lens of Ayurveda, we can remove the shame and self-blame that often comes along with it. We can choose a new, natural path. We'll go deeper and empower ourselves to not just medicate it away, with Xanax, anti-anxiety meds, or with food, alcohol, marijuana, online shopping, etc... Instead, we'll make our lifestyle, food and drink, and daily habits work for us - instead of triggering and perpetuating our anxiety!

Anxiety is by far the most common mental and emotional health issue among my clients – and among most women in the US. It adversely effects our relationships, our home-life, our self-talk, our digestion (yes, mind-gut are linked). So, basically - our entire quality of life!

This topic and episode are so relevant to so many. I know this new perspective, and these tips, will bring you relief, hope, and a little more calm - starting now.

NOTE: Talk-therapy and the mental health support of a licensed therapist are very important and effective. And, if you want holistic help with your anxiety, please book a Free Holistic Chat with me ⁠RIGHT HERE⁠, and we'll see if we are a good fit.

The Kombucha craze is a great example of “one-size-fits-all" health trends that are great for some – and potentially harmful to others. It all depends on your digestive style! Find out if it's truly good for you or not right now.

Depending on your digestive gut style, kombucha could be, at best: an affordable and beneficial dose of probiotics, or

At worst: an acidic assault on your gut that may aggravate GERD, gastritis, heartburn, or trigger loose stools. And no one wants to pay $4.99 a bottle for that, right?!

In this episode I’ll tell you why kombucha is not beneficial for everyone – as well as who should be drinking kombucha, how much of it, and when in relation to food. Yes, the WHO, WHEN, and HOW are crucial.

Today, I'm getting a bit personal, vulnerable, and sharing a slightly embarrassing story to help you understand how Western medicine's "Pill for an ill" approach isn't working. Instead, treating the root causes of your issues is the only true path to lasting health.