Most Western medical institutions and industries, nutrition industry included, are based on a patriarchal, war model. Rarely (or barely) factored into these information silos and reductionist views are the emotional, intuitive and inter-connected realities of nutrition and life. In Taoism, an ...
Ali's Think Pieces
How to Be in Control of Your Eating Without a Meal Plan
Today's client success story touches my heart in so many ways. Meaghan is a type I diabetic. The type of control she needs to have over her food extends well beyond feeling fat or bloated. It's a health reality that requires wisdom. Accepting and managing things that have happened to us for no ...
How to Ditch Nutrition Articles and Stop Overwhelm
Kate is a life-long learner and could have earned a Ph.D. in nutrition with all the information she was reading from her health magazine habit. How many of you can relate? I know the me of my teens and twenties can. Sassy, Seventeen, Self, Shape...the list goes on! But just like theory and the ...
The Two Food Fixes that Reversed Joanne’s Anxiety and Allergies
Last week kicked off celebrating my five full-time years of health coaching. MT discussed the two steps she started with right away to immediately regain her energy. This week, you'll see how Joanne reversed not just her allergies and anxiety, but a host of seemingly other unrelated problems, ...
The Best Food to Fight Fatigue
To celebrate my five year anniversary as a full-time health coach, I'm sharing a handful of client stories. To kick-off the party, meet MT. In this video, you'll learn: :45: What inspired MT to change her eating habits 1:50: Her secret to making major changes (hint: it's completely ...
Are you a health revolutionary?
This is not your parent's health-care. My work isn’t just a business; it’s part of a movement to redefine health-care and experience the joy of well-being one can expect from this one precious life each of us has been given. Are you in? If so, here's the deal: it isn't Dr. Andrew Weil or the ...
Low-Carb Pumpkin Spice Latte & Apple Crisp Recipe
Shorter days mean less energy and the mood-boosting sun. Cooler days mean cravings for warm crisps and coffees. This combination can send the best laid diet plans off the rails and re-routed to sugar-rich temptations. Here's some recipes to keep you balanced and satiated: Pumpkin-Spice Latte One ...
Why You Love Bad Carbs (and how to stop!).
Whole grains like wheat, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, rice and oats became part of the human diet about 10,000 years ago. If human evolution was condensed into one year, grains are about a day old. But, they have become megastars overnight. And with all super star brands, there are ...
Paleo vs. Vegan?
I often joke that for those of us without a religion, we find nutrition. You must know that person. The one who discovers the Paleo, Vegan or gluten-free diet and miraculously, their skin clears, twenty pounds disappear and they spend their new found energy trying to convert family and friends in an ...
Green Smoothie
This is technically called a green smoothie but it could also be called a miracle. It won't make you miraculously drop weight or cure cancer. But it can provide more energy than even coffee, make you feel more satiated while dramatically reducing your sugar cravings and detoxing your body. And, your ...