Nourish Flourish Thrive Integrative Health

20/12/2025

Autoimmune diseases are a class of illnesses that occur when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells and tissues.

There are over 80 different types of autoimmune diseases including lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and type one diabetes, and they represent the third most common cause of chronic illness.

Today’s generation of women tend to experience higher levels of stress than men due to societal expectations and responsibilities, such as caring for children, keeping up appearances, suppressing emotion and making parents all while also maintaining a career and household.

Research shows women may also be more likely to internalize stress maintaining the “everything is fine” mentality which can lead to chronic inflammation and immune dysfunction. Women also tend to hold back anger more than men for fear of being labeled “crazy” or “irrational”.

Overtime, cortisol, the stress hormone builds up in the blood and has no release and this can make a woman quite sick with chronic symptoms and ultimately lead to an autoimmune condition if left untreated.

I personally suffered with extreme weight gains, no libido, chronic fatigue, insomnia, rage/overstimulation, anxiety, depression, brain fog, headaches, hair loss, morning nausea, excessive cravings and so much more for over 8 years until I learned this was all being caused by too much cortisol in my blood.

Since I am like most women, I could not remove any of the stress I was facing every day so I leaned wholeheartedly on the herb Rhodiola which is a hormone regulator and a stress reducer, actually fighting your stress internally when you cannot reduce it externally.

After about 6 months on Rhodiola, my cortisol was regulated to such an extent, I was down 60 pounds and healed all of those symptoms in myself. I am 41 and look and feel better than I have in my whole life!

Rhodiola can do the same for you! Check out the Rhodiola I use, love and trust here https://linktr.ee/thefarmacy and use code CHRISTMAS25 for BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! It is the purest Rhodiola I have ever found.

PMID: 32542149
Ljudmila Stojanovich et al. Autoimmun Rev. 2008 Jan.

13/12/2025

Everyone is starting to realize how important fascia is when it comes to training the body, but most people still underestimate how deeply it influences movement.

Hydrated fascia behaves very differently, down to the cellular level. Not only does it participate in bioelectric signaling, it also plays a major role in how much range of motion your body can access during exercise. When this tissue is loaded correctly, it becomes elastic and responsive. Your muscles coordinate better, your posture improves, and energy becomes more stable because your body isn’t fighting itself to move.

When this tissue loses its elasticity and structural organization, your body begins moving in ways that increase tension, stiffness, and joint stress in the wrong areas. This is when people start experiencing the movement degradation that eventually leads to pain. Hydration in the body isn’t just about drinking more water. It depends on restoring the mechanical conditions that allow fluid to move through your tissue with minimal friction.

The visual on the left is exactly what we help you overcome through our training. This is what you see in the transformations we help people achieve, where their bodies begin to look more viscoelastic and full.

If you want to improve your movement, you not only need to strengthen the muscles that are weak, you also need to build the mechanics that distribute tension efficiently throughout your fascial system. The quality of your movement determines the quality of your tissue.

12/12/2025

10/12/2025

09/12/2025

We just came back from a major education conference. Almost every vendor was selling apps, AI tools, and screen-based solutions for kids.

Here's what we're NOT seeing enough of: Face-to-face human connection.

And now we're shocked that kids arrive at school dysregulated, disconnected, and unable to handle stress.

This is why The Regulated Classroom exists. We're not an app. We're not AI. We're not a screen-based solution. We're old school: face-to-face, human-to-human, body-to-body connection. Just what our children are craving and literally need.

Our Four Core Practices give back what childhood used to provide naturally:

🤝 Connectors - Real relational safety through face-to-face connection (not virtual)
⚡ Activators - Physical movement and rhythmic energy discharge (not gamified clicks)
🙏 Affirmations - Genuine positive experiences with real humans (not AI-generated praise)
🌊 Settlers - Embodied practices that actually settle the nervous system (not an app telling you to "take deep breaths")

💥Kids don't need more screens. They need more CONNECTION.
💥They don't need AI. They need regulated ADULTS.
💥They don't need apps. They need PLAY, MOVEMENT, and HUMAN INTERACTION.

That's what builds regulated nervous systems. That's what we've lost. And that's what we're bringing back.✨

07/12/2025

03/12/2025

Facts aren’t the only things we need to pay attention to when assessing whether it is safe to trust another person. Feelings are also crucial.

Safety is both fact and feeling. Therefore, trust is both fact and feeling.

We don’t just need to be told we’re safe; we need to believe it for ourselves.

28/11/2025

There are certain books that don’t just meet you, they confront you, and this one did exactly that. I remember looking for something that could help me understand the silent weight the body carries, the weight we rarely acknowledge because we’ve grown too used to functioning through stress. When I clicked play, Daniel Maté’s calm narration blended so well with his father’s piercing honesty that it felt as if I was being invited into a very intimate conversation. Before long, I wasn’t just listening to a book, I was listening to my own life being explained back to me with clarity and compassion.

1. The body keeps a perfect record, even when the mind tries to forget: Listening to Gabor Maté describe how the body stores unspoken stress felt like a mirror being placed in front of me. He explains that the body never lies, it responds faithfully to every unexpressed emotion, every swallowed anger, every moment we pretend to be fine. The narration made it painfully clear that suppressing pain doesn’t erase it, it simply relocates it into the body’s tissues, organs, and immune system. What we refuse to confront consciously will eventually surface physically, and the body will insist on being heard.

2. Chronic illness often begins with chronic self-neglect: One of the strongest messages that stood out for me is how many people who develop serious illnesses have a lifelong pattern of pleasing others at the expense of themselves. Maté’s examples of patients who could never say “no,” even when their health was failing, were both heartbreaking and familiar. As Daniel narrated, it felt like listening to the quiet tragedies of people who had never been taught that their own needs mattered. Illness, in many cases, becomes the body’s final attempt to force the person to rest, to stop, to choose themselves.

3. Stress is not defined by what happens to us, but by what happens within us: This lesson shifted something in me deeply. Maté explains that stress is not about the external event but about whether we feel supported, safe, and emotionally held as we move through it. Two people can experience the same situation and have completely different physiological reactions. Hearing this in the audiobook made me understand that hidden stress is not always loud, sometimes it is quiet, polite, and buried, yet it damages the body all the same.

4. Emotional repression is learned, and it can be unlearned: Throughout the book, Maté makes it clear that many of the coping patterns that harm us were formed in childhood when we had no choice but to adapt for survival. Some of us learned to stay quiet, to not make trouble, to be “good,” to take care of others before ourselves. These habits follow us into adulthood and eventually turn into illness when they conflict with our true needs. The author’s narration reassured me that although these patterns run deep, they are not destiny. Awareness is the doorway to healing.

5. Saying “yes” too often is a slow form of self-abandonment: Maté gives striking examples of patients who were so committed to being indispensable that they ignored every warning signal their bodies gave them. He shows how a lifetime of overextending oneself, refusing boundaries, and constantly prioritizing others can lead to autoimmune disorders, cancer, and neurological diseases. The audiobook makes this lesson feel very personal because the tone is gentle yet firm. The real danger is not in being kind but in being unable to say “no” even when everything inside is begging us to stop.

6. The body demands authenticity, not perfection: One of my favorite insights is that healing does not come from becoming the “ideal” version of ourselves, but from becoming the honest version. Maté emphasizes that pretending to be okay, pretending to be strong, pretending not to hurt, pretending to cope, all create internal conflict. The body, he says, is always pushing us toward what is real. Listening to this in Daniel’s warm voice made the message settle deeper. Authenticity is not selfishness, it is medicine.

7. Healing begins the moment we give ourselves permission to feel: The final lesson that stayed with me is the power of emotional awareness. Maté teaches that our feelings are not the problem, it is the suppression of those feelings that harms us. Allowing ourselves to grieve, to feel anger, to acknowledge fear, and to rest is not weakness, it is wisdom. The audiobook ends with a tone that feels almost like an invitation, reminding me that healing is not a dramatic event but a slow, deliberate return to myself. When the body says no, it is not punishing us, it is trying to protect us.

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