Houston Food Therapy Houston Food Therapy is eastern medicine’s version of nutrition. However, in addition to today’s knowledge of things like calories from proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc., food therapy considers the property of foods. For example, in the winter we should be consuming foods with warming properties (think soups and roasted…
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FOOD THERAPY ADVICE FOR SUMMER
Most of you reading this live in Hot-town Houston where we are all sweating it out together right now. And some of you have escaped to cooler climates…sigh, just thinking about cooler climates brings sweet relief. Yet, even in cooler climates, on our side of the equator, the current season is inescapably summer. “Yes,…
Go with your Gut: Increase Serotonin by Improving Gut Health
The Gut-Brain Axis The gut-brain axis is a communication network that connects the gut and the brain, allowing them to exchange information and influence each other’s function. This communication is bidirectional, meaning that signals can travel from the gut to the brain and vice versa. The gut-brain axis is composed…
MINDFUL COOKING CLASS with Susana Sanchez
EAT YOUR MEDICINE: COOKING DELICIOUS MEALS WITH ACCESSIBLE, MEDICINAL FOODS Remember holding your nose when you were given medicine to drink as a little kid? With that as a core memory, it can be hard to imagine that EATING your medicine could be both delicious and beneficial. Well, we are…
Added Sugar: Are You (And Your Kids) Ready For the Emotional Rollercoaster Ride?
Written By Susana Sanchez, Holistic Health Coach We’ve heard many times that what we put in our body directly affects how we feel emotionally and physically. But, as parents & caregivers, do we really act according to this premise? Formerly, when a child or teen was suffering with anxiety,…
Houston Cupping Therapy
Houston Cupping Therapy In Houston, cupping has become increasingly popular. Cupping is a process which uses negative pressure to lift the connective and muscle tissue. During this procedure, blood, oxygen, and, therefore, energy, are able to travel freely through this tissue where before it may have been blocked. In Chinese…
Reframing Fertility
Using supportive language to frame your fertility journey Where Do We Begin When We Treat Infertility? With an invitation + body trust + acceptance of the mystery. Read the following contrasting mantras and, as you read them, feel how they land on you: I am doing everything perfectly…
Cycle of Giving & Receiving: A Holistic Approach
Did you know that giving and receiving need each other to exist? Did you know that all opposites need one another to exist? That we could not turn something “on” if we couldn’t also turn that thing “off”; that what we understand as “cold” would be completely different if we…
Happy Autumnal Equinox!
Welcome to Fall, folks. Even in Houston we’re feeling it. Cooler temps, rain, maybe you’re even noticing a change in mood from feeling super care-free to feeling a bit more serious or melancholy. Even if your mood hasn’t changed, we’re guessing your schedule probably has tightened up a bit, right?…
