Bare Root Girl, Scottsdale, AZ (2026)

11/10/2023

Tfw is finallllly LIVE 💥

Many hours and much love has gone into this magical collaboration with my bestie .nurture. And I’m so excited to share it with the world. Read more and listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Links are over in the TMF insta.

04/18/2023

Let’s talk about stress support today (wohoo!) with my favorite nano particle thyroid supplement by .

✨ If you don’t read any further, I hope you’ll take away from this post that >>> our bodies are designed to deal well with stress ✨

Stress is an important part of our biology. Without it, we grow weaker and cells will atrophy rather than become robust. Healthy stressors like exercise, occasional fasting, and even eating plant foods are all forms of stress called “eustress;” they promote resilience is us when applied with balance 💪🏼

But the word stress gets a bad rap these days since the demands of our modern lives have taken us far beyond eustress and into a place where our bodies are triaging problems on a daily basis.

We badly need regular practices for stress management (my faves: restorative walks, healthy & connected conversation, hot baths in a quiet bathroom). And a fairly large percentage of us can also benefit from minerals to support the cascade of stress hormones overreacting in our bodies.

If you:

✔︎ Are unable to get at least 7 hrs sleep nightly 💤
✔︎ Have emotional or relationship struggles
✔︎ Are overweight
✔︎ Have a physically taxing lifestyle, both at work or at home
✔︎ Have financial concerns
✔︎ Have children 😅

What am I forgetting? Bc the true list is very longgg.

Enter: thyroid support with nano sized particles for better absorption.

This one, in particular, has a combo of selenium, copper, zinc, and iodine. Which, when taken together, help to support healthy thyroid function in the face of disregulated cortisol (the first big hormone impacted as a stress response). When cortisol is dumped regularly to help us manage stress, insulin is impacted, weight management becomes difficult, and even immune function will then suffer bc your thyroid will begin to underperform.

Disclaimer: please always consider having testing done before starting any supplementation regimen. That said, I’ve used this on myself and clients with great success.

If you’re curious about how whether you could benefit from this type of stress support, definitely DM me and we can chat more about whether it’s a fit for you!

03/31/2023

In continuing the conversation of discipline as a form of self-care from a reel I shared a few days ago >> I love the concept of setting a minimum baseline.

Chances are you are already implementing this principle in certain areas and it’s just second nature:

Alcohol or coffee, yes ☕️🍷
Hard drugs, no 💊

All are mind-altering substances but we recognize there should be limits and we each choose where to draw that line.

For some reason, we often fail to apply this same principle to other aspects of our lives.

If I asked you if you were willing to get just 2 hours of sleep in an evening, you’d probably give me a hard ‘no’ (unless you’re one of my EDM friends out there 🥳). But are you ok with getting 5 hrs on a consistent basis even though you regularly feel exhausted?

Where is that minimum baseline set for you and what is the reason it’s there? Was it made consciously and deliberately?

❓Are you happy with where you’ve drawn it?

So while I’m not advocating for a perfectionist mindset all around, I think we could stand to reevaluate where these lines are drawn. What types of foods we’re consuming, the level of movement and activity we expect of our bodies each week, and even the quality of people we spend our time with.

I look at my minimum baselines as a standard to live by, a part of my personalized code of honor. I expect more of myself so that I can better support you in expecting more of yourself 💥

03/29/2023

Swipe for this delicious springy side dish that could also be a main dish of you really wanted 😁🥕🥓

03/20/2023

There is no slower path to where you want to get than to adopt an extremist mindset 😅

I used to reside there mentally. Not as a result of actually believing it worked, but more as a byproduct of being so terribly desperate to get better and lose the weight.

I see threads of this belief system woven throughout the teachings of very well-meaning educators and it hurts my heart 💔

An extremist mindset will most often make your relationship with food more difficult and disempowered. And I want nothing more for my clients than to reclaim their power, strengthen their inner knowing, and align more closely with who they truly are.

All-or-nothing thinking strips us of our individuality. So whether we’re talking wellness or some hot button topic, the idea that we should all be the same, eat the same, do the same, is only going to dull your inner light.

🔆 The fastest way to get where you want to go is to turn that inner light up to full brightness 🔆

I began to take back my power over food when I adopted the belief that only I could know what foods my body did best with. I set the rules. And I feel no shame over what others may think of what I am doing.

Like many things, the answers are not found in the extremes. They are more often found in the middle, and only you can find that middle for yourself.

03/14/2023

I am an anti-diet wellness coach 🙋🏻‍♀️

Kicking off a new series here at BRG where I expand on some of the terms I’ll utilize if you work with me. There will be components relating to the traditional Webster-style definition but mixed together with my own personal approach, developed from many hours of study and 1:1 experience with clients.

First up: taking a look at the term “anti-diet” and what that approach means for our sessions together.

🙅🏻‍♀️ Diet culture says we should label foods for their health, therefore foods are “good” or “bad” for you. Certain diets seem to perform better and get *super fast* results (when really they just appear to based on fads/trends). Extremes, restriction, and deprivation mindsets foster an unhealthy relationship to food and in many cases, to our bodies, as well.

✨Anti-diet coaching pulls the focus away from traditional dieting mentality by: 
• Avoiding labels, both of the way of eating and the foods themselves
• Practicing food neutrality
• Not dealing in extremes or deprivation
• Encouraging a strengthening of our inner knowing to develop a personalized way of eating

💭 Curious to hear from you: if you’ve lived in the diet culture world like I used to, what does the term “anti-diet” mean to you??

03/09/2023

Do you miss your 20-something body?

I used to keep a pic of the stick thin 22 yo Angela in my desk drawer as a “goal body.” Back before I got really sick, before I gave into so much emotional, erratic eating. Before life had a chance to hit me hard.

🔸 But also before I had really even LIVED.
 The pictured progression of our bodies tells the story of our lives.

Often times we want to bury pics from past — or current — stages, reject the experiences that changed what we see in the mirror. (for me: gaining and losing 100 lbs comes with a fair amount of stretched out skin and stretch marks 🥴)

But periodically looking at that pic had me in constant rejection of my current body.

The antidote >>>

No, I’m not going to tell you to suddenly love your body and/or all the hard experiences that brought you to where you are now (although there’s massive power to be found in doing that work).

🔸 What I do recommend is envisioning a new body that’s more powerful and resilient than the one you miss. Change what you see now by changing what you want for your physique.

Look forward rather than backward.

I put consistent effort into my new and better body. I get regular joy from my present 40 yo efforts and seeing what she can do, both in the gym and out of it, that my 22 yo self could not.

This post could alternatively be an encouragement to all women to *lift more.* Because all day long 💪🏼

07/19/2022

Issuing a challenge to anyone who has enjoyed even one of my recipes to make this Grilled Potato Salad this summer. You’ll never go back to not grilling the potatoes first 🥔🥔🥔🥔 Recipe is linked in my profile!

07/15/2022

No foundation, no SPFs, and no cleansers on this nearly 40 year old skin 😌

Sharing about my oil cleansing formula over in stories today. Always taking the unpopular path when it comes to my skin (and most other things too 🙃).

What have to done outside the norm for your skin that’s worked well??

07/14/2022

New easy one for you! Creamy Avocado Ranch 🥑

Swipe for the recipe and hit the flag to save!

This is delicious as a dip or can be thinned out to make a creamy dressing.

Both traditional ranch and Mexican variations 🇲🇽

I make as-is for my one person household but it can easily be doubled or tripled.

07/12/2022

When I first learned about neural pathways and how the brain learns *and unlearns* habits, my whole world was rocked 🤯

I had no idea that I had been working so hard to set myself back on a daily basis.

It’s a fairly complex topic relating to neurons in the brain and how they are built. But setting aside the complexity of biology: what’s important to know is that every action has a neural pathway in your brain. And related habits — those that have associations, like grabbing a snack + sitting down + turning on the TV — will tie neural pathways to form a thicker circuit. Add in a bad mood and you have 3 components (tv, food, mood) that wire a thick ropey🧬daily habit.

This framework explains both how the brain maintains efficiency (IE not having to think hard about *how* to sit on a couch every time) & also the strength of those patterns due to repetition.

Habits are, in fact, hard to break. And new habits are hard to build. But despite being hard, the methodology is quite simple.

🔸What you do regularly is what your brain will get better at.

Some of the ways I’ve built new neural pathways:

1️⃣ More healthy fats: nerves are lined with a fatty coating called myelin. The thicker this coating is, the more efficiently the nerves will wire & fire.

2️⃣ Minimizing old associations: the ex of eating while watching TV > an old habit that was not easy to break but instrumental in helping me to be more conscious when eating

3️⃣ Food swaps: I used to crave very specific things related to mood. Switching what I reach for or just abstaining and sitting with hunger cravings is one of the best practices I still use

4️⃣ Try new things: one of the easiest ways to break old patterns is to replace them, rather than trying to fight to stop them. Hate the gym? Come with me to a yoga class :D Climb a mountain. Try a dance class.

5️⃣ Access a new mood: a slightly more advanced approach, but one that is worth the effort. I spend time regularly deciding what mood I will be in. I get music on, I write, I drop into the space of the emotion I want to create. THEN I act. And those actions come from an entirely different place than if I hadn’t decided my mood beforehand.

07/06/2022

On weight fluctuations & moving through disordered eating >>

Tbh this is not an easy post to write.

My journey with disordered eating has been a long and winding one. And I wanted to open up about what it’s looked like the last few years👇🏼

These photos were shot a year apart in 2022, 2021, and 2020. Exact same tank & jeans for reference’ sake.

A refresher for anyone new: I spent a lot of my adult life in a very emotional space when it came to my eating habits. Sometimes binging (when happy), sometimes starving (when sad), sometimes balanced (when I would feel ever-so-briefly in my power). Habits that begin in my 20s came to a head in my 30s due to how unhappy I was.

And while a combo of taking control of both 1️⃣my mind & 2️⃣my habits got me out of the destructive patterns I was in, these things do not disappear overnight.

2021 was a hard year. Possibly more difficult for me than 2020.

I’ve stuck with most of the good habits I had built. But the difficulty of life caused me to want to disconnect with my body.

It felt like too much to feel everything constantly.

So when an injury during a workout last year forced me to take months off, a combo of lower activity and trying to dull my senses led to more weight fluctuation than I had experienced in some time.

My ability to sit with unpleasant emotion weakened.

The drive to buffer grew again.

Being able to work out again certainly helped break this cycle. But movement is never enough on its own.

I’ve never had to dig myself out like I have this past year. To create the desire (again) to FULLY feel my life. Not shying away from any experience. Not wishing it away with food or drink.

Loving all of it.

🔸 Recommitting to the decision to love all that comes my way (the meaning behind a tattoo etched on my arm: “Amor Fate”) was what took that weight back off.

Not the gym.

Or counting calories.

✨ I lost the weight with my mind✨

If we are willing to fully feel our life experiences, we gain power over them. Food loses it’s grasp. And the weight can’t cling to the body any longer.

(And if it sounds like I’m encouraging you to be a Jedi — yes, this is very much what it must feel like to be one 😃)

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