Fuel Your Fertility With the 21-Day Fertility Cleanse Have you been told that losing weight will help you get pregnant? Do you struggle with irregular periods, PCOS, thyroid or autoimmune issues? Did you know that inflammation is a hidden roadblock to your fertility success, and that you can use foods to reduce your levels of inflammation within days? Do you know how to overcome cravings for the foods that are actually sabotaging your efforts to get pregnant? Do you want to rid your body of toxins so you can reclaim healthy hormonal balance, fine-tune your fertility and give your baby the healthiest possible start in life – starting even before conception? If we haven’t met, I’m Dr. Elizabeth Cherevaty, Integrative Fertility Expert, naturopathic doctor & the creator of the 21-Day Fertility … Read More
Easy Green Juice
It’s easy being green! At least we’d love to make it as easy as possible, since green vegetables have so much to offer! Juiced Up Greens Everyone can benefit from going green. Richly coloured leafies like spinach, kale and broccoli give us minerals like iron and calcium, detoxifying compounds that help us release hormone-disrupting toxins, and are rich in antioxidants that nourish our blood vessels and keep our skin glowing! Green veggies are also rich in fibre so they make great additions to support a healthy gut – which, as you’ll know if you’ve worked with us, helps you create the foundation of your entire health picture! How to Make a Green Smoothie We like the idea of using the … Read More
Restore Your Health & Wellbeing
As a health professional, business owner, & sensitive woman wearing many hats (a.k.a. “crowns” as Cara Alwill Leyba suggests in one of my new fave books, Girl Code), it took some hustling hard times including crushing fatigue and flatlined mood before I realized I had not only permission, but a responsibility, to proactively Restore before doing more. For years, I’d worked my January to the max. New plans, new programs, new routines and plenty of hustle and muscle to make sure I met those resolutions. Plus plenty of anxiety and icky self-blame if I didn’t. Since experiencing burnout not one, but two Januarys in a row, and finally getting a handle on what led up to that frightening and depressing experience of losing … Read More
5 Hallowe’en Health Hacks: What’s Your Hallowe’en Style?
Happy Hallowe’en! (Healthy Hallowe’en?) For many families the question of what to do with this spooky celebration is a loaded – and not just with sugar. There’s the fun, the creativity and the community vibes. There’s also the sugar highs, sugar lows, food reactions & immune system dives that can lead us into a not-so-great state for the fall and winter to come. What’s a healthy family to do? We asked our community of families for their favourite tips on making Hallowe’en a little healthier. Here are some fun suggestions & themes brought to you by our Two Rivers tribe: The Trade Up: kids use candy as tokens to trade up for a cool toy they’ve had their eye on or get … Read More
Immune-Boosting Elderberry Gummies for Kids
We’re always on the lookout for easy ways to help you help your family prevent illness, and move through them faster if you do get sick. Elderberry is one of our favourite family herbs. Keep some dried berries or a commercially available syrup in your natural medicine cabinet at home so you can reach for it when a cold or flu hits the household. Elderberry has a long history of use in Europe for treating coughs, colds and fevers. It’s the perfect herb for flu season. Elderberry tastes nice, so it’s easy to get into kids as a syrup or warm or iced herbal tea, frozen pops or integrated into smoothies. It helps fight viral infections Gelatin is one of … Read More
Menopause: Midlife Crisis With Benefits?
Finding Meaning in Menopause Menopause is a term known by women of all ages, and yet, most would be hard pressed to define it correctly. From a medical point of view, it means going twelve consecutive months without a menstrual period (or any vaginal bleeding). A woman can go three months or more without a period, and then out of the blue, one comes along and she has to start the countdown all over again! Once all bleeding stops, the hard part is usually over. It is the years leading up to menopause that is generally fraught with all the problems! What Is Peri-Menopause? Who knew that the “synchronized unraveling” of the monthly rise and fall of hormones, known as … Read More
5 Ways to Love Your Self…Now!
In this post, Eleni Kapetanios, NLP Practitioner shares her story of shifting from the crushing suffering of self-hate to the contentment of self-love, and how you can do the same, starting with one of her 5 simple strategies shared right here. I used to hate myself. The way I looked. I used to look in the mirror and panic about not looking good enough, or skinny enough. Even at my leanest, I looked in the mirror, disgusted. I couldn’t stand getting dressed, if clothes were tighter than they had been, I beat myself up. I ate super clean – bringing my own dinner to people’s houses, in Tupperware. If I ate “bad” food, say at a restaurant, I would cry on the … Read More