This delightful and nutritious gluten-free and dairy-free parfait recipe is from The Essential Thyroid Cookbook by Lisa Markey and Jill Grunewald-McLaughlin. Each parfait is packed with nutrients like B6, magnesium, and fiber. These are great for breakfast or as a healthy summer snack, especially on the 4th of July. Ingredients include berries, nuts, dates, chia seeds, maple syrup, and vanilla.

Instead of making a new year's resolution to try a ‘diet’, take our group class to learn the best long-term individualized approach to nutrition rather than a short-term diet. Our group class will guide you to connect what foods help or hinder your mood, energy and mental clarity and shift your relationship with food to one that is nurturing and fulfilling.

Reset & Restore is a 6-week group nutrition class that focuses on mindful nutrition and lifestyle resets to help us feel more in tune with our connection to food, mood, energy, and mental clarity.

This holiday season you might want to think about forging a new path around holiday eating. Instead of giving yourself a 10 day pass to eat whatever and then promising to make dietary changes in the new year, try adding in one nutritious meal or snack a day that is filled with veggies and good fats and you may find you will eat less of the sugary stuff later.

This recipe for avocado dip is filled with fiber, ‘good’ fat, protein, vitamins and minerals which means this dip can help you stabilize blood sugar, lower cholesterol, load you up with anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer molecules and keep you satiated to make it easier to pass on extra sugar cookies or white peppermint bark.

If you have found yourself in the cycle of trauma, indigestion and eventual microbiome imbalance, you can reverse this cycle. A big part of rebuilding our microbial health lies with food. Our food choices choices can relieve our symptoms as they also reshape our gut microbiome and trauma response.

2020 was a heavy year in so many ways that it feels nearly impossible to be strong enough to reflect and hold all we have been through. Add continued uncertainty around when we will be safe to resume person-person interaction and this ritual that we have done for years, holding the old and the new, becomes overwhelming.

When I felt overwhelm and uncertainty stirring in my belly and chest, I also noticed a voice singing “na na na, na na na”. When I slowed down to hear the song playing in my head, the lyrics below were loud and clear*:

I'm starting with the <human> in the mirror
I'm asking <them> to change <their> ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change

~ Glenn Ballard & Seida Garrett