Small Steps

In all times of our lives, joy can be a vital part of our health and healing. And it can also feel a bit hard to access, or maybe even feel for a lot of us. This episode talks about how we can start to notice, feel and then create more joy in our lives, as well as honoring the full spectrum of our emotions, not just the bad.

As we continue to move through and live in uncertain times, it can be helpful to check in with ourselves to see how we’re doing and taking care of ourselves. This episode invites you to take some time to check in with you and create small steps that can be supportive for you during this time.

Dealing with and sitting with your stress and anxiety can be a lot in normal times, and in not as normal times it can feel even more difficult. This episode talks about how you acknowledge your stress and/or anxiety, ways to work with it and lower it, and how you can take steps in your day to day to make you a little more resilient.

More people are working from home, which can sound great, and if you’re new to it, feels way different than you imagine. In this episode, I share my work from home tips and tricks you can try to make working from home work for you, especially during these corona times. (There are additional considerations for noncorona times too!)

With the world being a bit upside down right now, it can be difficult to think about what to do and how to take care of yourself. This episode talks about the noise that’s out there that could be in the way of you taking care of yourself and many ways you can take care of yourself and others during this time.

Oftentimes what’s described and accepted as “healthy” leaves out a lot of foods and dishes from most cultures. While we’ve been lead to believe that we have to leave our cultural foods behind to be healthy, there’s a lot of talk about and look at how we have health AND our cultural foods and traditions. This week I talk with Krista Linares about how we can do both and reclaim our cultures.

A lot of people are passionate about learning more about nutrition to help themselves, their families or their community. In this episode I share my experiences becoming a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, how the program has evolved and how you can make the program a little more manageable if you enroll.

As more people learn about diets and diet culture can be harmful, they’re unsure of how to find what to do next. Intuitive eating is a great option and often gets misunderstood or misconstrued. In this week’s episode my guest Naomi Katz, Intuitive Eating Lay Facilitator in Training, and I dive into the pillars of Intuitive eating to clear up common misconceptions and get into the nuance of it all.

With the internet, 24 hour news and what seems like a never ending amount of content, we are able to learn so many things about so many things. That can be great, but also confusing when viral, controversial or scary news comes out about disease, disease prevention, potentially harmful products and more. This week I share some important considerations you can use to figure out what you want to listen to or not.

With the amount of busyness, neverending work or so much happening on our phones, it can be easy to forget to take the time we all need to connect with ourselves and the people we care about. In this episode I talk with Three Gems Tea, a tea company with the mission of helping you slow down to enjoy amazing tea with yourself and others in an approachable way. We talk about how they came to create Three Gems Tes, what gong fu tea is and how to connect with yourself.