Be Zen Holistic Wellness Center

11/24/2025

I was at my kitchen table this morning, drinking tea and watching the light shift through the window, when I realized something:

We've been taught to override our bodies.

Push through the exhaustion. Ignore the signals. Keep going.

But your body isn't the enemy. It's not betraying you when you're tired, anxious, or craving sugar at 3pm.

It's communicating.

Your cortisol rhythm is showing you where your stress response is stuck.

Your s*x hormones are showing you how well your body is adapting to stress.

Your cravings are showing you where your blood sugar is struggling.

Your fatigue is showing you where your system needs support — not judgment.

What if instead of fighting your body, you listened?

What if instead of managing symptoms, you asked:
What is my body trying to tell me?

This is why I use functional labs.

Not to find something “wrong,” but to give you a way to hear what your body has been saying all along.

You don’t have to be “fine” or settle for “normal.”

Just be willing — and listen to your body. 🪶

🧪 The Hormone Clarity Test gives you the data your body's been asking you to see.https://patient.evexiadiagnostics.com/promo/promoinfo/3630_F5F969DC

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11/21/2025

Your adrenals aren’t “failing” — they’re responding to life.

Chronic stress, unstable blood sugar, inflammation, or even hormonal imbalances can distort your cortisol rhythm.

But here’s the thing most people don’t realize:
👉 If your cortisol curve is off, it doesn’t matter how much you rest, meditate, or eat clean — your body can’t restore.

That’s why I don’t guess with adrenal health anymore.

The DUTCH test shows:
Your cortisol pattern across the entire day

How your body is metabolizing estrogen, progesterone, and androgens

Whether your stress chemistry matches your symptoms

No guessing. No assuming. No throwing adaptogens at the problem and hoping.

Just clarity.

Are any of these showing up for you? Drop a 🙋‍♀️ below.

🧪 Learn more about the Hormone Clarity (DUTCH) Test (link in the comments)

11/12/2025

You're exhausted before you even get out of bed.

Coffee gets you through the morning, but by 2pm you're crashing.

Then, weirdly, you get a second wind at 9pm when you should be winding down.

Your doctor ran labs. They said everything looks 'normal.'

But you KNOW something isn't right.

Here's what standard bloodwork misses: your body's patterns across a full day.

One thyroid number at 8am doesn't tell us how your cortisol responds to stress at 2pm. Or why you can't fall asleep at 10pm even though you're bone-tired.

That’s where the DUTCH Test comes in. It maps your cortisol rhythm, s*x hormones, and melatonin patterns over 24 hours — so we can finally have Hormone Clarity and understand what your body's been trying to tell you.

No more guessing. No more 'it's just stress.' No more being told you're fine when you can feel you're not.

Your fatigue has a story. Let's listen - and help your body find its natural rhythm again. 🪶

📖 Read the full blog: Why Am I Always Tired? Hidden Causes of Chronic Fatigue https://www.bezenhwc.com/post/why-am-i-always-tired-hidden-causes-of-chronic-fatigue-that-your-doctor-won-t-tell-you

🧪 Ready for answers? Learn about DUTCH - the Hormone Clarity Test https://patient.evexiadiagnostics.com/promo/promoinfo/3630_F5F969DC

You wake up exhausted, even after a full night’s sleep. Coffee gets you through the morning, but by mid-afternoon, your energy crashes. No matter how much you rest, exercise, or “eat healthy,” the fatigue lingers. Sound familiar? Chronic fatigue is one of the most common yet misunderstood heal...

10/01/2025

Midweek Health Insight

Sometimes we focus so much on what needs fixing that we forget the deeper wisdom already inside us. True healing isn’t about perfection — it’s about alignment and coherence.

This week is an invitation to shift:
✨ From constant critique → to trusting your body’s depth and resilience.
✨ From trying to control everything → to choosing what truly supports your well-being.
✨ From repeating old patterns → to allowing them to transform into guidance.

Your body holds layers of wisdom — in your instincts, in your rhythms, in the stories carried within. When you listen closely, you’ll notice that struggles of the past often resurface as instinctual guidance for the present.

🌿 Practical reminder: Health is built less by chasing the “perfect” plan and more by practicing daily choices that feel nourishing, steady, and sustainable.

💭 Reflection: Where can you release perfection and instead lean into the wisdom your body already carries?

09/15/2025

🪷 Calming the Mind in Stressful Times

When the world feels uncertain, it’s easy for the mind to spin with “what ifs” and worst-case scenarios. Stress, worry, and tension not only affect our mood — they also impact digestion, sleep, hormones, and immunity.

In acupuncture and holistic medicine, we understand that a restless mind stirs the whole body. The nervous system shifts into overdrive, and suddenly, even small stressors feel overwhelming.

✨ Simple ways to calm the mind:

Breathe deeply — 3 slow breaths can shift your body back toward balance.

Warm meals/less caffeine — soups and teas ground the digestive system and soothe overthinking.

Movement — such as walking, stretching, or gentle exercise — releases stuck energy.

Acupuncture & herbs — help regulate the nervous system and restore calm.

💡 Takeaway:
Caring for your mind is caring for your health. A calm mind allows your body to find balance, heal, and adapt to the challenges around you.

09/01/2025

🌕✨ Health + Eclipse Energy ✨🌕

This week’s eclipse energy invites all of us to pause—especially when it comes to our health. The body has its own timing. Symptoms often show up long before we have the “aha” moment of clarity about what they mean.

Many of my patients feel the push to have instant answers:
👉 Why am I so tired?
👉 Why do my hormones feel out of sync?
👉 Why can’t I just fix this right now?

But healing rarely moves in a straight line. Just like the skies this week, your body is working behind the scenes, aligning and recalibrating. Clarity comes when we soften the urgency and start listening to the smaller signals—changes in sleep, digestion, skin, or mood—that guide us step by step.

✨ Reflection for your body this week:
Where can you release the pressure for instant results and begin trusting the quiet wisdom of your body’s timing?

08/25/2025

🌿 Health Freedom: What Does It Really Mean? 🌿

We often talk about freedom in big, political ways… but what about in our day-to-day health?

Freedom in wellness doesn’t mean never having symptoms or needing support or even immortality.

It looks more like:

Having access to knowledge and choices that align with your values.

Honoring the emotional ups and downs of the healing process, instead of forcing a quick fix (Gate 55).

Building a foundation of responsibility that supports—not limits—your long-term vitality.

True health freedom is sovereignty: the ability to choose how you care for your body, your mind, and your future.

So I’ll leave you with a question to reflect on this week:

What does health freedom look like for you?

08/18/2025

🔥 Emotional Fire + Devotion 🔥

Our inner fire is meant to give warmth, light, and inspiration. But when that flame burns too hot—or gets scattered into too many directions—it can just as easily scorch us.

When we overcommit or chase desires that don’t truly nourish us, it shows up across body and spirit:

Physical Body (Earth & Fire): burnout, adrenal fatigue, digestive issues like acid reflux, IBS, or emotional eating.

Energetic Body (Fire Element): scattered Qi, exhaustion from carrying commitments that aren’t aligned.

Emotional Body (Water feeding Fire): mood swings, emotional highs and lows, difficulty finding calm in the wave.

Mental Body (Metal): looping thoughts about “shoulds” and “musts,” difficulty saying no.

Spiritual Body (Wood’s vision tempered by Fire): a sense of being disconnected from true devotion, confusing longing with purpose.

✨ The Wisdom:
What we devote ourselves to either feeds our vitality or drains it. Emotional fire is sacred when it’s directed with devotion, but destructive when it burns without boundaries.

🔑 Reflection:
“Am I tending my fire as a steady flame, or letting it consume the fuel of my well-being?”

08/11/2025

🌀 The Healing Equation: Mind Meets Body

In medicine — both modern and holistic — we often look for answers in data, test results, and measurable changes. These are essential tools, but they’re only half of the picture.

True healing happens when the solution makes sense to your mind and feels right in your body.
That means blending:

Logic: Understanding your lab results, root causes, and clear action steps.

Intuition: Listening to your body’s subtle cues, emotional responses, and inner wisdom.

When we honor both, we create a plan that isn’t just a list of instructions — it’s a path your body wants to follow.

If you’ve been chasing answers but something still feels “off,” maybe it’s not that you haven’t found the right information… maybe it’s that the solution hasn’t yet been shaped to fit you.

Because lasting health isn’t just prescribed — it’s embodied.

08/04/2025

Healing Isn’t Just Physical. It’s Personal. It’s Patterned. It’s Multidimensional.

In the Five Bodies framework, we don’t just ask what’s wrong—
We explore where the signal is showing up.

Because your symptoms?
They’re not random.
They’re a message—a mirror—reflecting how your Physical, Energetic, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual selves are communicating (or not).

Here’s how we listen across the layers:

🧬 The Physical Body
We use labs to track what's happening in real time.
From blood chemistry to hormones, inflammation, micronutrients, gut markers—your body gives clues. And we decode them with clarity and compassion.

⚡️ The Energetic Body
This is where Human Design helps us understand your inner mechanics—your life force, sensitivity, and where you may be taking on what isn’t yours.
Are you acting from conditioning or alignment?
Are your centers clear, or clouded with over-efforting?

🔮 The Spiritual Body
Here we dive into Gene Keys—your soul’s unique frequency and path of evolution.
What gifts are trying to emerge through your challenges?
What shadow patterns are ripe for transmutation?

🧠 The Mental Body
This body is shaped through how you process, reflect, and reframe—and it evolves as you engage with the insights above.
When your energetic system is understood and your physical terrain supported, your mind calms and clarity sharpens.

💓 The Emotional Body
This is where everything integrates.
You don’t “fix” emotions—you experience them.
You feel the truth of your design.
You respond to your chemistry.
You live the unfolding of your inner world with more compassion and choice.

This is why “root cause” is never just one thing.
It’s a web. A dialogue between bodies.
And when we listen across all five, healing becomes not just possible…
It becomes embodied.

07/21/2025

🌿 Why Do We Use Spices in Our Food? 🌿

Most people think we use spices just for the distinctive flavors they bring — and while that’s absolutely appreciated by our palates, the original reason humans added spices wasn’t just taste.

✨ It was medicine.

Historically, herbs and spices were prized for their health benefits, especially their antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and digestive-supporting properties — long before refrigeration or modern medicine existed.

Here are some of the most common spices and why they’re powerful allies in your kitchen:

Cinnamon — balances blood sugar, supports circulation, antimicrobial against bacteria and fungi.
Ginger — aids digestion, reduces nausea, anti-inflammatory, boosts circulation.
🧄 Garlic — strong antimicrobial and antiviral, supports immune health, lowers blood pressure.
Turmeric — powerful anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, supports joint and liver health.
Clove — antimicrobial, analgesic (pain relief), especially useful for oral health.
Oregano — potent antimicrobial, supports gut health, fights respiratory infections.
🍋 Lemon (peel, zest) — antimicrobial, supports liver detox, adds Vitamin C.

✨ Even simple kitchen spices are part of a long-standing medicinal tradition — they help keep our food safe, our digestion strong, and our immune systems supported.

But here’s the catch: old, dried-out spices often lose their potency. 🌬 That jar at the back of your cabinet from five years ago? Likely more flavor than function by now.

Consider buying fresh or recently dried herbs — or better yet, start a small herb garden at home.

🌿 Fresh herbs = fresher medicine.

07/14/2025

✨ The Key to Longevity & Well-Being? It’s Not Just Physical. ✨

In the world of holistic health, we often talk about labs, supplements, nutrition, and protocols — the tangible tools we use to support the body.

But here’s a truth I hold deeply:
There are no magical cures in the physical realm.
The body is miraculous, yes. But it’s not a machine to be fixed with the perfect pill, the right test, or the next trending supplement.

What creates true, lasting well-being is the integration of:
The physical — biology, chemistry, nourishment, movement
The emotional — unprocessed experiences, hidden stressors, inner narratives
The spiritual — the unseen forces that shape meaning, purpose, connection

It’s not that we “heal” by bypassing the body for the spiritual, or ignoring the emotional for the physical.
It’s that healing lives at their intersection.

Science may guide the path, but it’s often in the mysterious — the shift in perception, the release of old pain, the softening into presence — where people experience what feels like a miracle.

Longevity isn’t just about extending years; it’s about expanding the depth and aliveness within those years.

This is why my work blends functional lab insights and integrative therapies with space for emotional and spiritual healing. Because you are a whole, multidimensional being — and your wellness deserves to be held that way.

If you’re curious what this might look like for you, I’m here when you’re ready.