For many of us, anxiety is an all-too-familiar companion in our daily lives. It’s that knot in your stomach before a big presentation, the racing thoughts that keep you up at night, or the general unease that always seems to be present. Truthfully, anxiety is different for everyone. But there’s…
Category Archives: Houston Holistic Health Care
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…
Coping with Holiday Stress
I’ve heard many people echo the sentiment that this holiday season hasn’t felt relaxing, or even slowed down. Many of us are still grinding, trying to get ahead of the new year and finish the never ending list of to-do’s for 2022. Just making the holidays happen is an incredibly…
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,…
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…
Valentine’s Brownie With a Boost!
This Valentine’s (or anytime you need a chocolate fix) enjoy this brownie inspired by the never disappointing molten chocolate cake, upgraded by incorporating the healing benefits of functional mushrooms. Functional mushrooms are so very good for you for a myriad of reasons: they can help with cognition, gut health, feeling at peace,…
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…
How Play Is Beneficial In Helping Children Process Stress & Trauma
Play for many can be defined as a period in which imaginative, relaxing, and self-directed activities occur. Play allows us to step in to a space where we are allowed to dance between the spaces of real life and alternate realities. This access to play and being able to dance…
All Hallows’ Eve
As spring is associated with birth and new beginnings, fall is the season associated with death and endings. But before you start thinking of this is a negative thing, remember that there can be no new beginnings without endings. Whether we have to experience a little “death” (moving away from…
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?…
