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Kara McNabb of Magnolia Wellness offers traditional naturopathy and mind-body counseling to help you discover and heal from complex physical and mental health issues.

09/26/2025

Taking care of yourself can be hard sometimes.

Starting new practices and building new habits can be, too.

That’s why I’m offering this 33-day project––to inspire you to tend to your self-care, simply.

STARTING OCTOBER 1

You’ll nourish your body through a powerhouse of nutrients.

You’ll cleanse through a simple routine.

You’ll build a practice of deeper self-connection.

You’ll activate and balance your energy field for whole self health.

5 elements

33 resources

in 33 days

All for just $33

BUT THERE’S A CATCH.

This project will go live ONLY if 33 people sign up.

So I need your help spreading the word!

Registration details in last slide.

08/13/2025

I was invited to be a panelist on the menopause movement project, offering a naturopathic and somatic perspective alongside several MDs focused on mid-life women’s healthcare. This was led by the and moderated by Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks.

The turnout in Grand Rapids last night was huge, and it’s evident there’s a need for greater support in this area.

Did you know that menopause doesn’t have to be difficult? That there are so many possibilities outside of pharmaceuticals, hormone replacement therapy, surgery, or just enduring it?

🌱 Herbal medicine helps restore physiological balance, which can ease or completely eliminate hot flashes, anxiety, night sweats, dryness, joint pain, insomnia, and other peri/menopause symptoms.

🍒 Nutritional deficiencies can contribute to symptoms. Magnesium supplements, for example, can be a game changer. And what you eat matters.

💅 Your environment can play a role in your symptoms, too. Personal care products, cleaning products, and fragrances are commonly loaded with endocrine-disrupting chemicals. If you’re living or working in a moldy environment (even just a little mold), mycotoxins could likely cause symptoms that mimic menopause or exacerbate symptoms.

😵 Your emotions can play a key role, as well. If you’re stressed, even mildly on a consistent basis, this can cause or aggravate symptoms. That stress might be something like job stress or relationship stress, but it can also be the stress we carry internally as a result of subconscious limiting beliefs.

🧘 The symptoms you experience are literally messages from your body telling you that something is out of balance.

My goal with any client regardless of what type of symptoms you’re experiencing is to tune in to these messages, discover the root cause, and find solutions that help you feel better than you ever could imagine.

You can find a quick guide on hormone balancing that includes a menopause section in my bio link.

Should I make a menopause specific guide? Let me know in the comments.

08/01/2025

When I started my career post-college I had the privilege of working with incredible leaders. They truly modeled good leadership and, as a result, our 300-person project team had an amazing experience together.

The first time I had a subpar direct manager experience was what pushed me to find a new job. Nice guy, but I likened him to a pinball. He bounced all over the place, his ideas and needs changed constantly making it difficult to accomplish our goals. I had a team that took a huge amount of energy to manage with all the changing directives. Because of his internal vacillation, nothing ever seemed to meet expectations, yet I had excelled in this role for years prior to him.

But it was his leader that set the tone. If we look to the embodied 5 Personality Patterns system, this person ran the aggressive pattern. And while this type can be highly effective in motivating and facilitating groups toward a shared goal with their solid energy, charisma, and good sense of direction, when they’re in the shadow side, they become aggressive, dominating, and prone to knee-jerk reactions that lack their generally good senses. Their energy field repels instead of magnetizes and their lack of empathy causes people to walk on eggshells around them. People don’t thrive when operating in states of fear.

Whether you run this pattern or work with someone who does, change is possible.

In the Energetics of Leadership retreat, we’ll dive into the five personality patterns, how to work with your pattern and how to work with others’ patterns, both how to shift your energy field and how to help them step out of pattern.

This work is truly potent.

I wish I had this awareness and these tools when I worked in the corporate world.

It’s those years of experience that drive my love for working with people navigating work stress, influencing org culture and aiming to expand their leadership skill.

Leadership begins within.

Earlybird registration ends one week from today — August 8.

p.s. We can’t wait to fill our bellies with what the incredible chef Loghan Call prepares. Locally sourced meals designed with nourishment in mind will complement the focus of our weekend.

07/31/2025

The ability to be deeply happy comes with the ability to feel sadness deeply.

06/09/2025

Join us for Grand Rapids’ first ecstatic dance fest!

June 20
5-10pm
Dancing beings at 6

Free

This collaboration brings together several dance facilitators, artists, sound therapy, reiki and more. This event takes place outside.

Don’t miss the fire effigy in celebration of the summer solstice! 🔥☀️✨

Message me with any questions!

05/19/2025

A client I’ve had two sessions with came in today with great news. She’d been dealing with severe menstrual pain that had taken her to the ER more than once for well over a year. Last week, during menstruation, she said her pain was minimal, dull, and tolerable. YES!!!

Additionally, some nerve pain and digestive issues have cleared up, too.

Another client today noted the profoundness of a trauma release exercise we did in our last session and how the simplicity of one part of it has been impactful since.

After 11 years, I’m still delighted with the magic and healing this work offers.

Energy work
Somatic therapy
Traditional naturopathy
Herbalism
Homeopathy
Flower essences
and more

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04/02/2025

Our bodies are speaking to us all the time. Did you know your body gives you clues about the organs or glands that are contributing to your health problems?

Thyroid Signs
• Double horizontal lines across throat
• Low pitched voice (hypothyroid)
• Eyes that appear to bulge (hyperthyroid)
• Thinning eyebrows
• Weight gain, puffy
• Excessive weight loss

Your adrenal glands produce stress hormones and are often an essential missing piece when it comes to working with thyroid problems.

Adrenal Signs
• Dark, brownish colored rings beneath eyes
• Absent or few lunulas on your fingernails (the white half moons rising from your cuticles). This is a thyroid sign connected to a B12 deficiency, a nutrient burned by stress
• A shaky tongue

Reproductive Hormone Signs (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone)
• Acne on chin
• Excess hair growth on chin or lip (women)
• Shadow on upper lip
• Red lines starting in the sclera’s reproductive area
• Vertical lines between eyebrows can indicate liver dysfunction, which can affect your hormonal balance.

Do you notice any of these signs? Download a list of hormone-balancing herbs, vitamins, and supplements here. ⬇

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03/26/2025

You can use muscle testing for just about anything.

In this class, we’ll focus on using it to select natural remedies like herbs, minerals, vitamins, and flower essences.

There are only 5 more spots available, so grab yours now.

April 3
6-8pm
$50
Message me to register.

This is an in-person class located in Grand Rapids, MI. Interested in an online class? Let me know!

03/24/2025

Let’s dance at the Grand Rapids Art Museum!

We’ll explore the theme of journey through dance and Christopher Myers’ exhibit on myth and migration.

I especially love the Persephone theme he’s incorporated. The movement into the underworld, or our inner shadows, and the emergence back into the light, catalyzing growth.

This event is ecstatic dance style, which simply means you’re free to move however you’d like. There’s no right or wrong way and there’s a lot of space for exploration.

Move big, move small, move wildly, chaotically, rhythmically, slowly, move quickly, shapely, weirdly, in stillness, or even in your mind’s eye.

No experience necessary.

Sign up through the website by Wednesday at noon! And DM me with questions.

💃🏻✨

03/21/2025

PMS, menopause, thyroid disease...these are all hormone related issues that can be cared for naturally.

Because I frequently hear people talking about these types of symptoms, I put together a mini product guide.

These are 12 products have been helpful for many of my clients over the past 10 years.

Find the link in my bio!

Address

1430 Robinson Road, #219
Grand Rapids, MI
49506

Telephone

+16169147762

Website

http://www.karamcnabb.com/

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Traditional Naturopathy + Somatic Therapy

Hi! I’m Kara McNabb.

Working with the fundamental principles of traditional naturopathy – finding the underlying root rather than bandaging symptoms – I use non-invasive assessment tools like muscle testing, sclerology and iridology along with a holistic counseling method and somatic awareness to help clients explore physical and mental blocks that contribute to dis-ease, discomfort and physical and emotional complaints.

I work with myriad remedies and modalities and incorporate them as needed, including: • Herbalism • Flower essences • Energy work • Craniosacral therapy • Somatic dance expression • Jo work • Holistic counseling • EFT/Tapping • Homeopathy • Essential oils • Raindrop therapy • Reflexology • Enneagram • Reichian character structure/personality patterns • Greek humoural temperaments • And much more

For me, this work is a practice in presence, both for myself and for those I work with. It’s my intention that each client feels seen and heard and discovers their personal paths to freedom – whether that’s mentally, emotionally or physically – through working together.