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06/02/2026

Join me on Saturday June 20th as I teach you the somatic approach to working with eating disorders.

Whether it's your own, your clients, or you just want more information - all are welcome.

I'll even be sending out a preferred practitioner list after for people who specialize and understand this.

Link in bio.

06/01/2026

Though eating disorders can cause harm, they are often the only way we know how to create order and a sense of safety.

Join me on Saturday June 20th at 12pm EST to learn more about this important topic.

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05/30/2026

How many relationships are built around this?

I've helped plenty of people navigate a rupture with someone who supports them financially.

It begins with finding safety with less.

If you're used to a house, we need to find safety with an apartment.

If you're used to a big grocery budget, we need to find safety with a smaller one.

Once the body can find safety outside of the lifestyle that's been afforded by this person you will no longer feel the threat of a potential rupture that can come from your honesty.

Because there's no fear in the what's next. You're willing to choose integrity over familiarity or even comfort.

The trickiest situations are with people who are chronically ill and cannot work or support themselves.

With these individuals, I teach the same practice that I would teach to the others who aren't yet ready to tell this person how they really feel.

It's a powerful practice we call: expressing your boundaries to the air.

If you have words, a movement, or any kind of expression that is repressed around this person you let it fully emerge when you're alone so your body doesn't have to hold it.

This way, you can honor your current reality that you need their financial support while also not harboring layers of painful, repressed boundaries.

It's tricky, it's stick, and it's not ideal but it's the best we have.

Let me know your thoughts and how you relate to this. And remember that I have a ton of resource on YouTube, my podcast, and my website about fawning.

05/28/2026

This discernment spared me from decades of unnecessary anxiety and stress.

Ruminating is when we think or imagine painful, negative, or stressful situations over and over again.

Ruminating actually creates a stress response in our bodies which tricks the body into thinking something bad is happening now.

But that's the interesting thing about the mind: it tricks the body a lot.

It pulls it from time and space.

I am sitting in a beautiful meadow THINKING about something stressful that isn't even happening now.

The stress response is literally out of time and space.

I call this somatic time traveling.

So here's what helped me break this: I learned to see rumination as a signal of my safety.

You see, when I was being bullied or assaulted or sitting with a loved one dying I wasn't ruminating.

I was in an active survival mode.

My brain wasn't analyzing.

I was in a fight, flight, fawn, or freeze response.

Once those events were over, and I entered an actual environment of safety, my brain could now analyze these things over and over.

I was bringing the painful past experience into my current one, retraumatizing and stressing out my body over and over again.

So try this practice:

1) Notice when you're mind is hooked on something stressful and say out loud "This is a sign that this thing I'm thinking of isn't happening now".

2) Let your body be supported wherever you are (the bed, the ground, a chair) and especially make sure your head can be held so you don't have to hold it up yourself.

3) Put one hand on your chest and one hand on your belly and apply some pressure.

4) Look around the room and find one thing you find beautiful, lovely, or comforting and FEEL where you body can experience that one thing.

5) Look for changes in your breathing, your shoulders, jaw, and notice any places that are bracing and if they begin to soften.

This is the act of bringing your body into the current experience so you can practice the art of acknowledging the past without losing the present.

05/27/2026

This kind of rhetoric leads everyday people to think they have absolutely no agency or power over their decisions.

Can we get better at changing policies so there are healthier foods in schools and prisons? Yes.

Can we get better at removing government subsidies that allow processed foods to compete with simple, whole foods economically? Yes.

AND, in the meantime, I have seen impoverished human beings living in food deserts implement my guidelines.

Because, unlike most food guidelines, they are not based on health.

They're based on how they affect your nervous system.

You can go to a gas station right now and buy a pack of peanuts, bottled water, and a banana at the register. This will be more stabilizing than the Doritos and soda.

You can go to your nearest supermarket and get a can of beans, frozen vegetables, and some eggs for less than $5 total and you have 3 days worth of breakfast (that's less than $2 per meal).

When you're eating for your nervous system you're not focusing on organic, non-GMO, health foods.

Even though I prefer those to be the norm (and that's where I agree we need policy changes) we can begin where we are right now. And for many, it's not about eating perfectly.

It's about eating balanced.

This is the main reason I was excited to write a book: to bring accessible and affordable knowledge to people.

A book that's not about organic, health foods but every day basic foods that help balance your health through balancing your nervous system.

A non-elitist book that anyone can read, understand and feel.

My book "Food Therapy" has already been bought for dozens of libraries around the country.

Now, I want to see it in hundreds of libraries and I would love your help.

Please consider buying 1 or 2 copies and donating them to your public library. This will put this information into the hands of people who need it the most at absolutely no cost.

I've already gotten incredible messages from people living out of their cars how much this is helping them.

Let's spread information and education, rather than a message of hopelessness.

05/25/2026

This is vital information that I think everyone should know.

We focus so much on obesity, chronic illness, and overall health when it comes to the discussion around processed foods.

But I'm bringing a whole new topic to the table: stress response.

In addition to the health issues these foods create, they are also fueling our trauma responses, reactivity, and division.

Adrenaline transforms us when we make a lot of it.

We go from being placid, open-minded, resting, and thoughtful to panicked, overwhelmed, full of rage, and anxious as hell.

This is how we're designed. The animal instincts take over when we're in the fight/flight.

It's what fuels many divorces, conflicts, divisions, and even wars.

But what if the root of all of this chaos has to do with food?

What if, individually, we could transform our minds and our responses to the world around us through what we ate?

This is my work, my ongoing question, and personal practice.

And it's pretty practical: when you learn to identify and FEEL which foods stress your body out you get a clear blueprint as to *why* you feel how you feel at midnight, or at 12pm, or when your mother was visiting.

By nourishing our bodies with foods that balance our nervous systems we're able to respond to the same circumstances differently.

We're able to feel the difference between discomfort and threat.

We're able to have preferences, and request them, without getting triggered and reactive.

Best of all: we're able to consciously and consistently feed our bodies in ways that reduce our stress response, increase our capacity for life, and support the planet while doing so.

All of this is in my new book, Food Therapy. It's available everywhere books are sold and the audio book is available immediately if you cannot get the physical one yet.

Read my book and then consider joining me in a live, virtual 6-month program called Embodied Nutrition which begins on July 7th.

You can buy my book + get more info on my program through the link in my bio.

05/24/2026

He lost 10 pounds in a month. She lost 125 pounds in 4.5 years.

Why? Because they didn’t focus on the weight. Camille and Luis focused on tending to their nervous systems so that their bodies could shift from fat storage mode to fat burning mode.

Camille credits her shift to focusing on ease, energy, and flow. She also focused on reducing her adrenaline overload, then she worked on reducing her insulin. She changed her relationship to food: instead of dieting and shame she learned how to tend to her adrenals.

Luis noted that his body didn’t actually want breakfast, so he focused on intermittent fasting, at his body’s request.

The liberation is in enjoying what you choose to eat because you want it, not because you crave it.

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https://holisticlifenavigation.buzzsprout.com/

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05/23/2026

I love spending time with people who make me second guess myself. Not cause they’re malicious or aggressive, but because they disagree with me. It roots me into my own relationship with myself and my beliefs. It points me to my own inner security or insecurity. And, in between the electricity of practicing disagreeing and being misunderstood with humans, there are always the sweet Grandmother Willows who seem to love me no matter what.

05/22/2026