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WellnessAugust 18, 2019

Gluten's Role in Chronic Illness

The conversation around gluten has gotten loud and confusing. This is an attempt to cut through it - what the research actually says about gluten, chronic illness, and why so many women feel better without it.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 28, 2026

If You've Never Tried Energy Work, Read This First

You're curious. Maybe a little skeptical. Maybe a lot skeptical. Either way, something brought you here, and I'd rather be straight with you than try to convince you of anything.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 23, 2026

What Healing Feels Like When Nobody's Rushing You

Healing, the way most of us have been taught to think about it, has a timeline. A start date and an expected end date. I want to offer a completely different picture, because the kind of healing I've witnessed doesn't work that way.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 18, 2026

The Moment I Stopped Separating Nutrition From Energy Work

For a long time, I kept my two practices in separate lanes. Nutritional therapy was the clinical side. Reiki was the other side. I thought they complemented each other the way any two good things complement each other. I was wrong.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 13, 2026

What I've Felt in Sessions That Changed How I Practice

I want to share something that's hard to talk about in clinical terms because it didn't happen in clinical terms. It happened in my hands. Early in my reiki training, I was still thinking of nutrition and energy work as two separate tools.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 8, 2026

Stagnation Isn't Laziness. It's Dehydration at Every Level.

You know the feeling. Nothing is moving. Not your body, not your thoughts, not your bowels, not your life. What you're describing has a pattern, and it often points to something no one has thought to look at: hydration.

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Non-toxic LivingFebruary 3, 2026

When Your Body Feels Brittle

There's a kind of depletion that doesn't show up as tiredness. It shows up as fragility. If you feel emotionally thin, like there's no buffer between you and the world, your body might be telling you something about fatty acids and minerals.

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Non-toxic LivingJanuary 24, 2026

What "Groundlessness" Actually Feels Like

There's a feeling that a lot of women describe to me but struggle to name. It's not exactly anxiety, though it gets called that. It's not exactly fatigue. It's more like being untethered - like you can't quite land in your own body.

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Non-toxic LivingJanuary 19, 2026

The Gut Holds More Than Food

Ask a woman with chronic digestive issues to put her hand where she feels the most tension. Nine times out of ten, her hand lands right below her ribs. The solar plexus. That soft, vulnerable center where everything seems to converge.

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Non-toxic LivingJanuary 14, 2026

You Don't Have to Understand Energy Work for It to Work

If someone had told me five years ago that I'd become a reiki practitioner, I probably would have smiled politely and changed the subject. I was a research person. A show-me-the-evidence person. And then I had an experience I couldn't explain.

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