My husband got Backstreet Boys tickets for me, and what should have been a straightforward, exciting experience somehow turned into a whole thing. 😂 If you’ve been following along with my little ticket-buying saga, you’ll know what I mean. Between the presales, comparing seats, checking prices, and second-guessing my decisions, I’ve probably spent way too…
Category: Nervous System
Make Things, Not Content
I’ve always loved pottery, and lately, I’ve been thinking about getting back into it. I’ve taken a few classes here and there over the years, but I never really stuck with it or made it a regular thing. Then I went to Japan and Korea, and oh my gosh, the ceramics there! Everywhere I went,…
Your Life Doesn’t Need To Be Content
How many times have I picked up my phone to check a text, only to look up half an hour later and wonder how I ended up watching someone turn an old tire into a fancy coffee table? I do this all the time. I open Instagram to check one thing, then I see a…
My Kind of Wellness? K-Dramas
Modern wellness loves to tell us to sit in silence, meditate, and journal our feelings. Not me. I watch K-dramas. I think they might be one of my favourite forms of self-care. It feels like every time I open my phone, there’s someone telling me to wake up at 5 a.m., jump into freezing water,…
You Can’t Make Everyone Happy…And That’s Not Your Job
For most of my life, I really thought that if everyone around me was okay, then I’d be okay too. Like my own wellbeing depended on everyone else being happy first. So I got really good at reading people. I could tell when someone’s mood changed, even if nothing was said, and I’d adjust myself…
Top Reasons to See a Holistic Nutritionist
A lot of people think seeing a nutritionist means sitting across from someone who’s going to hand you a meal plan and being told to eat more vegetables and drink more water like you haven’t heard that a hundred times already. But holistic nutrition is different. It looks at the whole picture: how you’re sleeping,…
Mental Health Is More Than a Mindset
May rolls around every single year with a massive wave of conversation about mental health. You see all the posts, the heavy statistics, and the well-meaning reminders to check in on your people. All that definitely matters. But if I am being completely honest, sometimes it starts to feel a little bit surface-level. It is…
The Role of Nutrition in Children’s Mental Health
When we talk about kids and mental health, we usually talk about things like screen time, school stress, sleep, or therapy. But there’s another part that flies under the radar, nutrition. There’s also a growing amount of research looking at how what kids eat may affect things like mood, stress and how they handle everything…
The Link Between My Gut and My Trigeminal Neuralgia
For years, I only ever treated my trigeminal neuralgia like a jaw problem. The pain was all in my cheek and mouth, so that’s where I looked. I spent years bouncing between dentists and doctors just trying to make it through the next flare-up. When my TCM doctor first told me the real issue was…
The Organ That Doesn’t Exist (But Runs Everything)
So, here’s something interesting. In Chinese medicine, there’s an “organ” that doesn’t actually exist as a physical body part. It’s called the San Jiao, or the Triple Burner. There’s no tissue you can cut open or see on an ultrasound and Western anatomy doesn’t recognize it at all. But TCM treats it like one of…
Holistic Nutritionist vs Dietitian vs Naturopath: What’s the Difference?
If you’ve ever tried to eat better, feel better, or just understand what your body actually needs, you’ve probably come across terms like dietitian, naturopath, and holistic nutritionist… and thought, okay… but what’s the difference? Because on the surface, they can seem pretty similar. They all deal with food, and they all talk about wellness,…
Move Your Body, Shift Your Mood
Some days, moving is the last thing on earth I want to do. It’s that deep, leaden exhaustion where you sleep for eight hours and wake up feeling like you haven’t rested in weeks. Between the kids, perimenopause swinging my mood all over the place, and just feeling flat, my instinct is to stay on…
Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Lately
No one really prepares you for this part. Not just the hot flashes.Not just the skipped periods.Not just the ‘is this hormonal?’ guessing game. You reach a point where everything just rubs you raw. Your patience drops to zero, little things get under your skin, and you feel constantly overstimulated. You’re bone-tired, but you can’t seem to…
Mouth Taping and Nasal Breathing
I never really thought much about how we breathe when we sleep until my son’s orthodontist brought it up. We were there for a routine appointment, and she started asking about his breathing habits. Did he sleep with his mouth open? Did he snore? Were his lips usually parted when he was resting? She then…
Your Body Is Talking. Are You Listening?
It’s tempting to reach for a quick fix. Headache? Take a pill. Tired? Grab another coffee. Can’t sleep? Try melatonin. I’ve been there, more times than I’d like to admit. To be fair, these tools can be really helpful in the moment. Sometimes that’s exactly what your body needs, a bit of support to get…