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Writing from practice. On nutrition, the body, food, and the slower path to feeling well.

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2019
§The dispatch
August 18, 2019

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Wellness

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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  1. 10 MAR 2026

    How You Eat Matters as Much as What You Eat

    You can buy the best groceries and follow the most thoughtful supplement protocol. And if you eat it standing over the kitchen sink while scrolling your phone with a toddler on your hip, your body will not get what it needs from that food.

    Nutrition
    6 min
  2. 05 MAR 2026

    Foods That Actually Support Your Nervous System

    If your nervous system has been running on high alert for months or years, food alone isn't going to fix that. But you can stop making it harder, and you can start giving your nervous system the raw materials it needs to come back down when it's ready to.

    Nutrition
    6 min
  3. 28 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  4. 23 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  5. 18 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  6. 13 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  7. 08 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  8. 03 FEB 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  9. 24 JAN 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  10. 19 JAN 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  11. 14 JAN 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.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min
  12. 09 JAN 2026

    Where You Hold It Matters

    Put your hand on the part of your body that feels the most tense right now. Don't think about it. Just notice where your hand goes. That's not random - where you hold tension is connected to what's going on underneath.

    Non-toxic Living
    4 min

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