A few years ago I adapted my Nonna’s Easter rice and lemon cake to be GF DF RSF and it is delicious, clean, and a perfect taste of Easters past. Here’s the recipe…
The Healthy Thing is a curated guide to embodying total wellness with a strong focus on mind/body healing and living a clean and healthy lifestyle.
A few years ago I adapted my Nonna’s Easter rice and lemon cake to be GF DF RSF and it is delicious, clean, and a perfect taste of Easters past. Here’s the recipe…
Once I had the onset of new extreme symptoms leading up to multiple diagnoses, I made major adjustments and cut out or changed a lot more. Some became permanent lifestyle changes; once I learned and understood their impact on my health, whether I was experiencing symptoms and dis-ease or not, there was no turning back. Others were temporary…
A list of my go-to migraine helpers that aren’t medication.
Given the heightened stressors of the holidays, it’s no surprise that alcohol sales skyrocket between Thanksgiving and New Years. Here’s help on how to cut out alcohol and what can you enjoy instead (besides just some seltzer water and a slice of lemon).
There are variations of SAD just like with any other disorder or emotional state, and people can fall anywhere on that spectrum from mild to more severe. Here are some ideas for managing from which lightbulbs to use to how to incorporate a winter wind-down routine.
Before my healing journey began I was right there with the “I’m not really worried about that” people when it came to thinking about heavy metals in my food or personal care/beauty products. Well, I ended up testing moderately high for multiple types of heavy metals in my body. Here’s why metals accumulating in the body is dangerous, how and where we are exposed to them, why it contributes to “chronic” dis-ease, and how to test and detox from them.
If you think you're hard-wired to be a certain way, act a certain way, or think a certain way, then I hate to break it to you but that's simply not how the brain works. The concept of neuroplasticity is that the human brain is ever changing, adapting, and reorganizing. We are very changeable, healable even- we just have to do the work.
I believe in indulging a little and treating yourself while on vacation, but I’m not a believer of throwing healthy habits out the window. I believe in mindful, intuitive indulgence instead. Here are 10 ways you can maintain your healthy routine and still have fun with food while traveling (or dining out in general).
Any healing journey has its ebbs; It’s normal, human, and all part of the journey. Despite all this, going through an ebb is never easy often causing an upheaval of emotions of anger, fear, frustration, disappointment and so much more along with other issues, symptoms, and/or challenges.
Here are some tips for getting through a physical and/or emotional ebb:
Facts on the fishing industry and how to properly and safely shop for fish that is healthy for you.
Chakras and our emotions go hand in hand, as do sometimes our physical symptoms/sensations. If we aren't paying close attention we can miss the signs.
My recipe for baked falafels (gluten free and vegan) packed with my own recipe for pickled cabbage, tahini, and mint!
This saying, stemmed from an old Chinese parable, changed the way I speak, the way I think, and it allows me to stay open to possibility.
Given the warmer weather, Lyme disease awareness is on the rise in the media, but the reporting is simply NOT accurate. You don't have to be on a hike to get Lyme nor will you always find the tick (if that's how you got it)! Some people with Lyme have little to no symptoms, while others are bedridden for months and years, yet nobody outside the Lyme community seems to know about the later.
Even though certain toxic chemicals like Glyphosate are banned in the use of organic farming, it doesn't mean those of us who eat super clean aren't being exposed to some very health concerning toxins. Here are the specifics, where they are found in our daily life, how to figure out if your body is harboring them and how to detox.