Throughout the course of my health journey, I’ve learned that diet and nutrition improvements are only part of the battle. The rest can be found in the lifestyle changes that we choose to implement for ourselves. Our society glorifies busyness, important but stressful jobs, big houses and expensive cars, fancy but meaningless things, managing a…
What I’ve learned: Healing and staying healed with FOOD
As I was recovering from a life-threatening flare up of the autoimmune disease Ulcerative Colitis back in 2010/2011, I began my intensive search for the foods that would not only be healing for me but that would keep me healed. This involved countless hours spent reading tons of nutrition books and blogs, searching websites, and…
Overcoming Autoimmune Disease: The Story of Crazy Health Lady
Growing up, I was always “healthy.” At least, I didn’t get sick very often and was always naturally lean. However, being born in 1980, my arrival coincided with the beginning of the processed food explosion. My generation was the first, starting from infancy, to grow up eating more packaged, highly-processed, “edible food-like substances” (awesome term…