It's no secret that my weight has fluctuated through the years - primarily the years I was previously in clinical practice. As the mother of six, it wasn't my pregnancies and breastfeeding experiences that seemed to challenge my waistline the most, but more the stress and sacrifice of being a midwife, taking 24/7 call, and managing everyone else's needs while ignoring my own. I've lost 60 pounds in the last three years, and while my #diet has changed very little, my movement

Functional medicine providers can evaluate wellness through a variety of tests; one of those is the hair tissue mineral analysis or HTMA as it can help in determining mineral deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances. Each year, in the United States alone, federally licensed clinical laboratories perform over 150,000 hair mineral assays for healthcare professionals. The information gained can reflect long-term effects of diet, #stress, toxic metal exposure and their effects on yo

My son joined the #football team this year. As a #homeschooler, this has never been an option before, for any of my kids, but Samuel is especially athletic, so I made the decision to transfer him to the local government school so he could participate. The second week into playing, I picked him up from practice and his face was significantly swollen and pink. He shared they had to do a lot of up/downs because another kid on the team had demonstrated some poor behavior during a

Yesterday, I taught my first #vinyasa class for the local yoga studio, about a year after I took my very first yoga class. I had embraced a great deal of inner work in therapy following a few traumatic years and was feeling ready to begin my physical #transformation. Immediately my soul felt at home in the yoga studio so I signed up for a teacher's training course, more-so because I wanted to really dive into learning yoga. I hadn't anticipated the continued emotional and men

One of the more passionate areas of #wellness I find my self drawn with this new practice, Eden, is the desire to help people reach their optimal weight. I never struggled with my weight, in spite of birthing six children, until my stress escalated beyond my coping skills. For a functional medicine practitioner, it took me way longer to recognize my own health issues than quite frankly it should have but that's part of not prioritizing yourself. That's part of #stress. That's