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· July 10, 2020

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My first published fiction piece, a flash story entitled Oxygen, is forthcoming from The Sunlight Press in 2020.

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We MUST do better. Instead of dismissing young wom

We MUST do better. Instead of dismissing young women, let’s start teaching them how to listen to and care for their bodies when they begin to speak up that something’s wrong.

This topics hits home for me. I think of myself and so many other women out there who start having symptoms like these in their high school and college years. They seek help, and right then and there would be a HUGE opportunity to begin to teach them how their bodies actually work, what their symptoms mean, and how to care for and deeply nourish themselves as they mature and grow into womanhood.

Instead, they are dismissed as exaggerating. Told it's in their heads. That nothing is wrong and that their symptoms are normal. The body's first whispers are ignored, and they continue to grind through life and their young adult years always pushing through, never truly resting, surviving on caffeine, lacking in nutrients, and not caring well for their bodies—until they completely break.

This is me, but this is SO MANY women today. I wonder often where I’d be now if I hadn't been so dismissed and ill-equipped early on in my journey, and if I had been given way back then the education and tools I have now.

That's why I'm so passionate about spreading the word. These symptoms are your body’s means of telling you it needs support and nourishment. Let’s learn to listen to them!

Healing is really, REALLY hard. I don’t want tha

Healing is really, REALLY hard. I don’t want that to go unseen here. I’ve got a long way to go, and I want the hard to be here in the room, too.

Sometimes healing feels like a few steps forward followed by a million steps back. It feels like doing all the right things and still struggling to walk up the stairs some days. It looks like people thinking the outsides look great and having no clue about the wars being fought on the inside. It looks like life growing much simpler and much more complicated all at once.

The healing is even harder when hardly anyone understands the journey (at best) and when plenty of people are quick to dismiss, disqualify, or disbelieve the journey (at worst).

They haven’t experienced the years of pain, failed answers, dead ends. Everything about life as you knew it changing. The hopes and dreams delayed. They also haven’t seen the hours upon hours upon hours of time you’ve spent learning how to heal yourself.

Deep healing requires many leaps of faith. It requires drowning out the noise and deciding to let go of what people think of you. That one deserves to be repeated.

Deciding to let go of what people think of you.

That one took me a while, and I’m still working on it. But it’ll be worth it.

To heal you’ve got to choose to show up for your body every single day and give it what it needs—rest, safety, nourishment, care. And you’ve got to lean on nothing but the strength of the One who knit it together. Whether fully healed or not—it is well.

It is well.

What makes an NTP unique?👇🏼 Some of you may

What makes an NTP unique?👇🏼

Some of you may be wondering what exactly an NTP is and what we do, so I thought I’d summarize some key aspects of our work:

🌱 Holsitic: An NTP is trained to view the body as one holistic, interconnected system rather than isolated organs and organ systems. When you’re experiencing symptoms in one area, we will always approach your concerns in light of the whole body.

🌱 Supportive: Our aim isn’t to silence or suppress your symptoms, but rather to study them to help identify the deeper root causes of the imbalances you’re experiencing, and ultimately to support them.

🌱 Nourishment: We don’t diagnose or treat medical conditions. Rather, we seek to help you bring your body into balance by going back to the foundations of nourishment and incorporating nutrition, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations.

🌱 Education: Our education goes beyond just nutrition and dives into the study of physiology. This includes digestion, blood sugar regulation, metabolism, mineral and
fatty acid balance, detoxification, the endocrine system, the immune system, cardiovascular health, and more.

🌱 Bio-Individual: No two bodies or stories are the same, so no two healing journeys should look the same either. We will always take a bio-individual approach to determine what foundational changes would best serve your unique body.

🌱 Partnership: Many of my colleagues and I ended up in this profession after complicated paths to healing our own chronic symptoms. We know what it’s like to be seeking answers, and we will listen to you, believe you, and support you as best we can. You know your body best! 🤍

Time for a new adventure 🌱 Last year in the mi

Time for a new adventure 🌱

Last year in the midst of a very difficult season, I did a crazy thing and went back to school. I’ll graduate this July as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)!

The most defining experience of my life has been battling serious chronic illnesses, and while I’ve hoped and prayed that chapter would be long over by now, it has stuck around. And it’s nearing a decade since my health started to go downhill.

But over the last few years, that journey has shifted from one of:

▫️doctor hopping & dismissal
▫️”you’ll have to live with this forever”
▫️”there’s nothing else we can do”
▫️hopelessness

to one of:

🔅God graciously opening my eyes to the deeper root causes of chronic disease
🔅taking my health into my own hands and out of the hands of the flawed medical system
🔅hope that full healing is possible

Let me tell you, it has been HARD and humbling work that has shattered so many hopes and expectations I had for my life by this point, and there’s still a long way to go. But God has made it clear that I’ve gone through this for a reason, because it’s time to share what I’ve learned.

I can’t wait to educate others about God’s incredible design of human physiology, how to heal on a foundational level, and anything and everything in between. If you know anyone at all with an open mind who is stuck on a health journey or who’d like to learn, tag them here or send them my way!

The waiting will be hard, but the healing is meant

The waiting will be hard, but the healing is meant to be slow. No one mends in the blink of an eye. No one becomes a stronger, deeper version of themselves overnight.

These are the things I’ve had to remind myself lately when the sweat and the tears and the hours feel wasted. On the days it feels I’ve worked so hard and still somehow slid backward. Because many things in life have felt too slow—the seasons, the physical and emotional healing, the new dreams and longings that haven’t yet come to life.

But it’s okay if our healing is slow. Each day we pursue it with faithfulness, we’re sowing seeds. One day those seeds will bloom and we’ll bask in the sunlight and the waiting will have been worth it.

Until then, every day we choose to keep healing matters. We are letting God meet us in our weakness with his strength, and we’re letting him finish his work in us. Whatever you’re healing from today, I’m cheering you on, friend.

Alright friends, I was planning on crawling out of

Alright friends, I was planning on crawling out of the woodwork here today and had a post all put together. Then I realized it’s national dog day, so that’s gonna have to wait. But Maya is way cuter anyway, so no biggie, right?

This one-of-a-kind goofball came to us just when we needed her. She has brought us so, so much joy and laughter, and I can’t picture life without her.

Sometimes the best, most healing gifts in life are the ones we couldn’t have imagined or asked for ourselves.

I think we can all agree we learn a lot about our

I think we can all agree we learn a lot about our world and ourselves when things get hard—that’s when we’re awakened to our unhealthy tendencies, our deepest longings, our greatest fears. And right now, things aren’t just hard. They’re also disjointed, uncertain, and isolating. That leaves us with a lot of solitude and a lot of time to come face-to-face with those tendencies, those longings, those fears.

Many of us tend to run away from the hard things. We shut down, we bottle it up, we close ourselves off and withdraw. I certainly have this tendency. During the month of June, I even stopped writing, because when you’re a writer who’s writing, there’s no way to run away from the hard stuff.

None of us likes to feel the weight of the hard things around us and in us, to let them seep in, to give them space to settle in and stay for a while. Instead, we pretend and we cover up and we busy ourselves and we act like everything is okay, even when it isn't.

So, here’s what I’m asking this month—what if, instead, we chose to stay in the hard things for a little while?
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This is just a little excerpt of what I shared this afternoon with my email subscribers. Each month I send out a short note of timely encouragement aimed at helping you seek healing and purpose in the month ahead. If you’d like me to add you to the list, DM me or comment below! 🎉

It’s been quite some time now since I’ve poste

It’s been quite some time now since I’ve posted here. A week of stepping back to listen to our brothers and sisters of color, to reflect, and to pray turned into a month of sabbath from writing in this space. I didn’t expect to be quiet here for the last month, but it was good for my soul. And if I practice what I preach, that means slowing down sometimes. It means cultivating space for breath, rest, growth, and reflection. It means not binding ourselves to harmful standards of perfection or productivity. It means taking the necessary time to heal.

Life has been hard lately, for a number of reasons. And I’ve been learning to sit in it and lament—not to run from the hard—but also to look around outside of it, to see the sweetness life still offers. It’s a slow journey, and it always will be. But I’m glad to be back here, sharing what I’m gleaning and what I’m writing—though it might not be quite so often for a little while. And that’s okay. ❤️

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