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Labor & Post Partum Doula

Holistic Nutrition

Yoga Instructor

Prenatal Yoga

Postnatal Yoga Doula - to do service. Your birth, your way!

As a ProDoula I offer non-judgemental support for labour and postpartum women, partners and family. It is my commitment to use my head, heart and hands to help guide them through a beautiful life changing event of their life. What is Holistic Nutrition? Holistic Nutrition is based on the ideal that our bodies work in synergy; Mind, Body & Spirit. By providing our bodies with essential vitamins and

minerals, along with living a healthy active lifestyle, ideally we can live disease free. Nutrition is a preventative lifestyle. Instead of treating symptoms with Western medicine, such as drugs and surgery, food can empower the body to heal from within. By learning the basics of nutrition and the impact that food has on our daily lives, it is a step towards a happy healthy future, effecting our mood, energy and spirit.

04/02/2025

Today is … I’m trying to reflect on what this last 27 months have been like for me. I always come back to feeling like cancer is such a time thief. Our world was turned upside down.

Hearing the words you have cancer is as scary as you can imagine; actually it’s way worse. The fear, the treatments, the endless appointments, the side effects, being cut open and probed … mostly loosing so much of who you are. But here we are, 10 months post treatment … and I’m finally starting to fully feel like myself again.

Loving on my little family of 3 is what keeps me going. What I’ve struggled with most is saying out loud is that I’m a survivor; I’ve been without cancer in my body for 19 months. But my mortality always feels like it’s tapping me on my shoulder. As of today I’m living, I’m cancer free and I’m surviving. I’m still trying to figure out what lesson I’m destined to learn from this journey. Maybe it’s sharing, maybe it’s me urging you all to check your breast, notice changes in your body and always advocate for yourself. Lastly, you are not alone in this. If you are a friend of someone going through this, show up bc time is precious and you never know who’s going to make it through.

19/09/2024

Go to energy balls … IMO the key to making them tasty is pulsing the dry ingredients in a food processor or blender.

1/2 cup sunflower seed butter
1/4 cup honey / maple syrup
1 tbsp coconut oil
Pinch of sea salt
Dash of cinnamon
1 cup of rolled oats
1/4 cup coconut flakes
1 tbsp h**p seeds
1 tsp chia seeds
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Warm together your seed butter, honey & coconut oil. Add in salt & cinnamon; mix well, set aside.

In a food processor or blender pulse oats, coconut flakes c h**p seeds, chia seeds until a course flour (you want various textures)

Mix well with wet ingredients. Add chocolate chips and roll into balls or press into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper. Cut into squares before refrigerating.

Keep in an airtight container in the fridge.

21/09/2023

Shout out to all the parents who have waltz into cold/flu season before the end of September.

The all nighters
The couch surfing
The line up of buckets
Endless laundry
Catching puke
Wiping noses
Days of contact sleeps
The tears
The ER visits (where for some reason kids magically feel better)

I see you. I’m already so tired and springtime is so far away.

22/08/2023

TW: scars

all of me…

there were many times this year that I thought I would never feel whole again. Never feel at home in my body. Never feel beautiful. Never feel like all of me.

Being invited in front of camera is always an honor. I’m so grateful for her friendship and generosity. She has the ability to make you feel so empowered; a level of comfort, a level of beauty, a level of real. As someone who has always felt some shame for my body, I never knew how comfortable I could feel, mostly naked, showing all of me.

I’m slowly feeling alive again, I’m slowly coming home

19/05/2023

Course of treatment …

I’ve had so many messages from people curious what my treatment looks like. So I thought I would finally answer it for you.

I finished chemo a month ago and although it was a big chunk of my treatment plan, I still have a long road ahead of me.

Chemotherapy • 8 rounds (16 weeks). I was administered 2 different types of chemo

Hercepton • a target therapy because I am HER2+. I go to the chemo suite every 3 weeks for 18 treatments. So I will be done the end of February of 2024.

Surgery • I’m having a bilateral (double) mastectomy with lymph node removal next week.

Radiation • no start date yet but will be 4-12 weeks after surgery. 30 treatments (5 days a week for 5 weeks).

This doesn’t include the long list of other appointments: ultrasounds, mammogram, biopsy, MRIs, PET scan, dozens of bloodwork’s drawn, follow ups and more.

… and because the question of how I’m doing comes up often and I don’t always feel like answering. I’m doing ok. This break between chemo and surgery has been really nice, soaking in time with my family. I still have a serious case of chemo brain, sleep is non existent without using edibles and I’ve been kicked into menopause (lucky me). The emotional toll can sometimes get the best of me but overall I’m coping well and have the best family and friends 💗

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