Empowering you to to thrive through holistic wellness. Specializing in chronic illness support & low tox living. Subscribe to our newsletter where once a month you will get the low down on wellness topics hitting the news, low tox living, recipes and more. Check out the Products page for meal plans and other digital downloads. To book your complimentary Discovery Call click on the links tab. My journey into the wellness world began in university when I was studying Physical Education and human movement. Anatomy and Physiology were fascinating and started me on the path I am traveling today. In 2012 while I was teaching group fitness classes I noticed changes in my body. I lacked my usually energy levels, my muscles were shrinking while I was still lifting weights regularly, and I started reacting to food I never had before. I began the investigative journey which took me 8 years, 9 diagnosis and 2 surgeries to get to the root cause. I was gifted to be working with a homeopathic doctor who didn't know the word quit and I will be forever grateful for her dedication. During the journey I dove deep into the world of auto immune illness, the microbiome, toxic exposure and endocrine disputing chemicals. I wanted to do everything I could to feel better. I and rooted in my mission to be of service, and to help people cut through the noise when it comes to their health. It does not have to take years to feel your best, and together we can re program what wellness looks like for you. I believe that we should treat the individual as a whole and know that healing involves not only the physical but the emotional. Together we will plant the seeds for tomorrow! Coach Jen
Is food shaming secretly impacting you?
Lets talk about these "What I eat in a day to lose X number of pounds" posts.
Just the idea of it makes me cringe. These videos tend to shows someone displaying their food and flaunting their weight loss.
Maybe these people are trying to help out in a way that they think is going to be beneficial for the people that are seeing their content. From my perspective what they are actually doing is continuing a very negative rhetoric that we need to fit into this one size fits all schematic of diet culture.
If what you’re taking away from their posts are ideas of some meals or portions then that’s fantastic. That could be very helpful. Unfortunately what this does for a lot of people is provoke a sense of shame where their internal dialogue now goes to, "Why can’t I do that?"
Another thing people may start to think is, That’s not for me, my body won’t respond to that, that’s too hard. The truth of the matter is our nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all situation. We can refer back to the reality that we can all do the same exact things and have different bodies. This is why you’ll never see me promote what I eat in a day.
The truth is your body processes certain things differently than someone else body. For example some of us are carb burners, some of us are fat burners. Some of us respond really well to high intensity training, and others to slow and controlled. Some people are focused on balancing hormones and some blood sugars. Its a mixed bag of goals out there and what you eat should be geared towards your individual needs.
The big thing that I can advise for you is to take away from this fad is use what works for you and remove any kind of emotional attachment to these types of posts/images. We all have our own journey to take with food, which is why I take a holistic approach in my practice , let’s put the power in our own hands and we can let these influencers and their food shaming tactics run their course.
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Empowering you to to thrive through holistic wellness. Specializing in chronic illness support & low tox living. Subscribe to our newsletter where once a month you will get the low down on wellness topics hitting the news, low tox living, recipes and more. Check out the Products page for meal plans and other digital downloads. To book your complimentary Discovery Call click on the links tab. My journey into the wellness world began in university when I was studying Physical Education and human movement. Anatomy and Physiology were fascinating and started me on the path I am traveling today. In 2012 while I was teaching group fitness classes I noticed changes in my body. I lacked my usually energy levels, my muscles were shrinking while I was still lifting weights regularly, and I started reacting to food I never had before. I began the investigative journey which took me 8 years, 9 diagnosis and 2 surgeries to get to the root cause. I was gifted to be working with a homeopathic doctor who didn't know the word quit and I will be forever grateful for her dedication. During the journey I dove deep into the world of auto immune illness, the microbiome, toxic exposure and endocrine disputing chemicals. I wanted to do everything I could to feel better. I and rooted in my mission to be of service, and to help people cut through the noise when it comes to their health. It does not have to take years to feel your best, and together we can re program what wellness looks like for you. I believe that we should treat the individual as a whole and know that healing involves not only the physical but the emotional. Together we will plant the seeds for tomorrow! Coach Jen
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