The Stress-Hormone Connection:
An Integrative Blog for Women’s Health
There are so many days when I am stuck inside at a computer and I know, with total certainty, that if I just went outside I would feel better. Not eventually. Within about ten minutes.
It does not ha...
If you have read my post on nourishment as a foundation, this is the practical follow-on. Less philosophy, more what actually goes on the plate and which foods earn their place when you are supporting...
Nourishment means different things to different people, and I want to widen the definition before we narrow it, because the food conversation tends to swallow everything else.
When I think about nour...
There is a saying I come back to often, which is that you can learn a great deal about someone by looking at their schedule. Not what they say they value, but where the hours actually go, because that...
I can tell you every single thing that would support your nervous system and your hormone health, and if your mindset is not on board, none of it will make it into your actual life. That is not a crit...
Most of us have absorbed a fairly specific picture of self-care. It looks like a day at the spa, a bubble bath, a candle, an afternoon somewhere quiet. Those are genuinely lovely things and I am not h...
When we talk about stress, most of us think about mental and emotional overwhelm, the full calendar and the mental load and the sense of never quite catching up. That is real, and it is only part of t...
There is way too much out there about the 40-step morning routine and the 5am club and the expectation that we'll move mountains before breakfast. I don't think that's what it's about. No matter what ...
This is one of my favourite topics, and also one of the hardest. I was at an event recently where the speaker shared that when her mother was growing up, boundaries weren't even in the vocabulary. It ...
How we bookend the day matters more than most of us realize. The way we wind down in the evening sets our nervous system on its trajectory for the night and shapes the quality of our sleep. So let's t...
We hear so much about the nervous system, cortisol, and stress, usually labeled as things that are bad and need fixing. Before we go anywhere near fixing anything, I want us to actually understand wha...
This is one of my favourite topics, and one I genuinely wish we all learned in high school. If we understood how much our stress and our nervous system shape the rest of our health, I think we would m...
