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Five years ago, while talking with a distraught client, I had a moment of clarity that began to alter my view of health, nutrition, and well-being: Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) and other restrictive diets were causing Disordered Eating and Orthorexia. Not in all people and not in all cases; but, the relationship – and all its trauma, pain, and suffering – were far too real, for…
Come join me for a transformative 3-week class to create a more cooperative relationship with your Inner-Eater. I recently developed this innovative program and am offering it this summer at a discounted price before a wider scale offering in the fall. Who is this class for? Anyone who has struggled with restrictive eating or has issues with disordered eating as a result of a diet. Anyone who has experienced…
WHAT IS THE LOVING DIET? The Loving Diet is soul-based work that is emerging as a new heart-body therapy modality. It is a pioneering approach that goes beyond paleo autoimmune and many mind-body practices and uses loving as a tool of healing one’s life and body. WHAT ROLE DOES NUTRITION PLAY IN THE LOVING DIET? NUTRITION PLAYS TWO ROLES IN THE LOVING DIET: 1) Nutrition: the…
Here are a few pre-requisite questions to ask yourself if you are considering taking the AIP plunge. Have you ever followed a paleo diet before? Many people find a slow transition from a SAD diet to Paleo diet then to AIP is manageable. It is a big change to give up grains and dairy my friends. You don’t want to decide to go full AIP…
“I want to heal my autoimmune disease” is a conscious thought. But, it turns out that science is understanding more and more that unconscious programming (from experiences in your life) drives how you will heal your autoimmune disease MORE than your conscious desire to heal. See study below that shows how your unconscious decides 7 seconds before your conscious mind does. Whoa. So from this…
WHAT IS AUTOIMMUNE PALEO OR AIP DIET? The Autoimmune Protocol is a diet that helps heal the immune system and gut mucosa. It is applicable to any inflammatory disease. We have a problem in this country with how we eat, treat disease and heal disease. AIP addresses inflammation in the gut that causes Autoimmune Disease. Autoimmune disease is a condition where the body cannot tell…
I don’t know how to title this post. But I do know that I am going to tell you all the story about how I came to awaken to this current path I am on. The same path I ask my clients to trust themselves to go on. I did not happen upon my path from disease. But does it really matter how we hear…
How To Regulate Your Body During Political Upheaval Political upheaval is just one of the many things that can draw us out of our center. Our center is the place we find homeostasis, peace and balance in our energetic body. When that is disrupted, the physical body follows. Could it be that we are being asked to deepen our connection to ourselves in the current…
Dr. Joe Smith from Atlas Health and I share our updated SIBO protocols for 2017!
Love Is Medicine Practitioner Training Oct 21-23 2016 Mill Valley, CA I get a number of emails from healers, nutritionists, coaches and practitioners asking how I do the work I do and where to train for it. The simple answer is that the work I do is incredibly specialized, so there is no specific place to study it. However, to honor others who feel the…
Many of you are doing fantastic on the AIP diet. Congratulations! This post is not for you. This post is for the hundreds of emails I get each month for those who are not doing fantastic on AIP and are struggling to find out why. They may also not be on AIP…they are really on any kind of “Fix-It” diet. Those who have been…
What are you looking for when you heal? If you might, consider thinking about that for a moment. Because I think humans are on a deeper journey than just curing what ails us by diet and supplements. I think we are growing our hearts. It is something to ponder. Imagine this: you healed. What does that look like and feel like? Maybe even write…
I saw this quote today: “Good Health Depends on Good Choices” I tried that. For like 25 years. I think it is a total load of crap. I tried to be good. And then I tried to make everything around me good. And I became controlling and almost OCD. In my efforts to have a good diet, good attitude, good life, good mothering….I was…
Love Is Medicine Level 1 6/10-6/12 Berkeley, CA I get a number of emails from healers, nutritionists, coaches and practitioners asking how I do the work I do and where to train for it. The simple answer is that the work I do is incredibly specialized, so there is no specific place to study it. However, to honor others who feel the stirrings in their…
I am writing this post as much for me as you. Something to refer back to as I traverse my humanness. A very wise and loving person pointed out to me last week that I am suffering from an infliction I had not know about previously: The Great Illusion Of Becoming. This shifted my entire life perspective in one moment when the awareness of…
I am seeing a lot about how to reintroduce foods on AIP on different FB pages. I gathered a few points to keep in mind when considering how to reintroduce foods. Who wrote the article? Are they clinicians? Have they actually had experience walking AIP’ers through reintroductions? Why is that important? Because experience counts. Would you go to a doctor for a pap…
As I travel across an ocean to be with my teacher in Switzerland for a week and sit in the inner-folds of my heart, I am readying my bags. Yes, I have the enzymes, underwear and moisturizer. But I also the awareness of the work I am bringing to the planet. Why love to heal us? Why? I had to ask myself that question…
When I Tell People Not To Start AIP Why would I possibly tell someone not to start the AIP diet? Because now, three years into AIP clinically I have seen some big issues emerge no one is talking about. So it is time to start a conversation. I get a lot of these kinds of messages in my inbox: “I want to start AIP…
In this weeks episode, Jessica talks shop with Torea Rodriguez FDN who shares how she works with autoimmune clients, her own story of healing and autoimmunity and how she adds the mind-body piece to her practice. Torea also is offering a free 30 min. consultation called Vitality Session on her website! On her consultation page, click on the box that says: Redeem Session Coupon and…
It isn’t practical to set up our lives around experiencing only comfort. Yet we do because it is our natural instinct. It is only because I have had so much practice with discomfort that I don’t push it away so quickly now and can see its gifts and value. But I still grumble about it. And so I love my grumbling and I accept…
In this episode, Sarah talks about her newest gut infections, the frustration she is feeling about it, and how complicated her Crohn’s is turning out to be. She shares the latest game plan of her doctors, what she is doing to manage how she is feeling about all of it, and what is helping her the most. http://traffic.libsyn.com/loveandhealpodcast/01_Ep__06_Sarah_Uncovers_More_Issues_in_Her_Gut.mp3
What if… What if disease was waking you up to something in your life? What if instead of being a victim to your disease, you could actually decide that disease is here to help you come to a deeper understanding of yourself. When we do that, it changes the context of disease in our life from destroyer to giver. That can help to heal the…
Sarah and Jessica answer questions about the Cyrex Array 10 test and food interactions. Sarah shares the results of her Cyrex Array 10 test.
What does the future of healing Autoimmune Disease look like? One thing I know for sure, is that is does not look like what it did two years ago. So much has changed and the science has continued to evolve. That is good news for you. More options at your fingertips. More resources at your disposal. Healing is at hand. Over the last two…