If you told me that you’re a “Wellness Warrior”, I’d say that you’re not nor could you ever be one because this overused badge of honor doesn’t exist. But before you get upset, hear me out. Something about how the health conversation has been framed by health …
Do you feel tired all the time? Maybe tired isn’t even strong enough of a word to describe the extreme fatigue you feel all day, every day. The problem seems to be pretty common place for those who eat a gluten-free diet. Or maybe you have trouble falling asleep at night and wake up completely…
After traveling in Costa Rica during the summer of 2008, I came home to find that despite being gluten-free for 4 full months, I felt horrible. I knew that I wasn’t getting glutened because I cooked everything at home and yet I was having horrible, unexplainable bouts of diarrhea, gas and bloating. It was a…
I’d like to take this moment to introduce you to my husband, Nick. He’s been my biggest fan over the past month as we journey together on the road of cleansing sugar from our lives. He asked me to post this note to you so you can hear all about his experience of my Gluten-Free…
My first year being gluten-free wasn’t all that tough until I hit the holidays. It was, in that moment, that I hated being gluten-free. Though I’m sorry in a sense to admit it, I was and still am at times as I watch relatives enjoy family favorites that are completely off-limits for me. I say…
I’ll never forget the feeling of walking my dog up the hill near my house. Normally this hill wouldn’t bother me, but now my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest. As I continued to climb, sweat began to pour off me as if I had just sprinted a mile. Though I had easily climbed…
Handstands are elusive…at least to me, that is. The reason is simply because I’m afraid of them. I’m a yoga teacher who’s afraid of handstands. It might sound crazy, but of all the yoga asanas (aka. poses) out there, it’s the one that dredges up a deep-seated fear that might not make any sense since…
Dear Media (who’ve written negative articles on the gluten-free diet), It has come to my attention numerous times over the past year that you are really not a fan of the gluten-free lifestyle. You openly mock us in articles and insist that those of us who actually live a more health-filled life abstaining from gluten…
It was a lovely evening in the Fall back in 2007 and I accepted an offer from my friend, Frank, to dine at a well-known and reviewed Italian restaurant. I’d heard that the homemade pasta was to DIE for! In my pre-gluten-free days, this kind of stuff used to excite me. I have memories of…
