Shine Wellness Collective (2026)

25/09/2024

Who wouldn’t want to start their day hydrated, with a breakfast consisting of all of the essential nutrients for their day?

We will always tailor protocols to your unique needs or lab test results, but there is a foundational level of nutrition needed for humans to feel balanced. Energetic, yet calm. Motivated, yet focused. Operating with the natural diurnal rhythm that aligns with the cycle of the sun. Able to conquer the day’s activities without fatigue or anxiety.

When we’re deficient in key nutrients, symptoms can arise that lead to the diagnosis of disease.

Our goal? Rebalance the body. Replenish definciences. Remove toxicities. Help your body get back to a state where it can heal itself and disease cannot survive.

In this shake, I include a variety of fruits, spinach, and supplements that meet my needs today. Maca root powder to help balance my hormones and stress levels. H**p hearts for added protein. Daily vitamins and minerals. Collagen to support my journey healing from acne and scarring.

We’d love to help customize your wellness plan today!

11/08/2024

Let’s talk about the ultimate goal of working with an integrative health practitioner.

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We want you to walk away from this experience knowing you’ve rebalanced your body at a root level.

Where dis-ease cannot survive.
Where you jump out of bed in the morning with a spring in your step.
Where you look forward to the day.
Where your mind is clear.
Where your symptoms are finally at ease and you can thrive.

Healing is possible. If you choose to utilize functional medicine labs, we can see the data. If you choose to proceed with protocols that have been proven on hundreds of thousands of others, you’ll feel the difference.

Let’s chat! No obligations - it’s time to see if integrative medicine is right for you.

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05/08/2024

The start of a new month is a great time to reignite some positive energy into your mind and routine.

is here, we have some helpful reminders to be mindful of as you propel yourself into a better future (that’s right - only you have the power to make these changes in your life, we’re just the coach!)

☼ Focus on the things you can control.
Actions lead to change, if you can’t take action, then why expend the energy? Ex. You can’t necessarily stop working your job to reduce stress. But you can provide your body the targeted nutrients it needs to support your lifestyle.

☼ Celebrate the small wins.
When you have big goals, whether it’s eradicating the symptoms of a diagnosis, completing a degree, or losing weight, you have have to be proud of your achievements along the way. It only makes the journey that much sweeter, and keeps the motivation strong! Ex. If you make a nutritional shake every morning and complete an overnight 12-hour fast for a week, you get to reward yourself with a massage!

☼ Surround yourself with uplifting people.
Not only do you become like the people you hang out with the most, but their words can become your inner voice. By choosing people who also want to move forward, do better, make positive choices, and speak life into you, the way you feel about yourself and your life only gets better!

Let’s welcome August with focus, celebration and positivity, and nothing can stop us!

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02/08/2024

The healthy woman you see in this photo is not the same person I was a year ago.

and - simultaneously.

Exhausted, anxious, underweight, weak, neverending headache, insomnia… the list of the symptoms I was experiencing was all-consuming.

Thanks to my education, insights from labs and personal experience, I now know how to restore balance in the body and help alleviate these symptoms - most in 12 weeks or less!

☼ note: some labs results will point to a longer-term wellness plan based on intestinal dysbiosis or severe imbalances, but most people feel better in under 4 months - naturally!

Pharmaceuticals are not the enemy, but they’re also not preventative. If you’re ready to uncover issues before they require a significant diagnosis or prescription - or if you’re ready to get rid of your symptoms once and for all, let’s talk! A free consultation is just a click away - link in bio.

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10/07/2024

There’s a lot we as integrative health practitioners can do to support a client through improving their sleep. Here’s a few of my favorites!

1. Get in bed at 9:00 when your cortisol is at its lowest. Wait too long, and you can end up with that dreaded “second wind” or what many mistake as being a “night owl”. This is our natural diurnal rhythm, and fighting it will only lead to symptoms of insomnia or restlessness.

2. Begin winding down without electronics an hour before, ideally with a consistent bedtime routine to cue your brain for sleep (wash your face, brush teeth, read, turn on a diffuser, do a self message). Blue light really does impact your body’s natural secretion of melatonin. You can supplement with melatonin, but try to stick with the smallest effective dose, and stick with red light after 9:00 if necessary.

3. Watch the sun set. This also helps naturally regulate your diurnal rhythm. There’s a reason people feel so much better after a week spent camping!

4. Stop eating by 7:00, especially sugar to avoid blood sugar spikes. Even better, continue to fast for 12 hours every night. Your body use those restful hours to heal rather than expending energy on digestion. You’ll begin to feel greater energy during the day, too!

5. Plan to get 7-9 hours of sleep. Women often feel better on the higher end, as lack of sleep contributes anxiety, which causes a destructive cycle of thoughts keeping you awake at night, followed by continued lack of sleep.

☀️ If you need help improving your sleep hygiene and overall wellness, let’s talk! shinewellnessco.com

03/07/2024

I think it goes without saying, are not intended to replace a well-rounded diet. The thing is, even if we eat “healthy,” we’re often still missing the levels of key and minerals we need to feel our best.

☼ The fact is, our has become more and more depleted of nutrients over the decades.

☼ That translates to , even organically grown, with less nutrients than the identical one 50 years ago.

☼ For us, this means that we’re getting less of what we need in the same services of and as our grandparents did.

☼ The need for high quality supplements, especially during the first 12-16 weeks of a healing protocol to replenish our definiciences, is clear.

Our next informational post will share more about the second half of the equation - absorption. An unhealthy gut won’t necessarily absorb the nutrients we are consuming, so it’s crucial to follow a proven protocol to heal and seal the gut walls and maximize our body’s ability to process them.

Reach out if you’re looking for a simple, effective healing protocol with the right supplements in the short term, as well as a maintenance plan for the long term!

01/07/2024

We often encounter clients who are not ready to give up their morning cup of joe. While we believe you really won’t need/desire it once you heal & your energy returns, here’s what we recommend if you do continue consuming in the morning.

☼ Don’t drink coffee immediately upon waking.

Your levels are already high first thing in the morning, and the last thing you want to do is drive up that cortisol and blood sugar when it’s already at its peak.

You read that right - caffeine does increase blood sugar! This is due to that increased cortisol (stress hormone) that prompts the liver to release stored glucose into the bloodstream. And we know blood sugar spikes can eventually lead to insulin resistance.

☼ Don’t drink coffee on an empty stomach.

For the same reasons above, you’re suddenly increasing the cortisol and blood sugar spike rather than slowly waking your digestive system with a healthy (preferably a nutrient-packed smoothie).

☼ Be sure to re-hydrate first.

It’s easy to throw back an iced beverage as if it’s water. If you rehydrate your cells properly first (lemon water, smoothie, etc.) before drinking coffee, you’re less likely to drink too much and you’ve revitalized your cells prior to the intake.

☼ We always follow the 80/20 rule with wellness recommendations. It’s important to provide a realistic plan, and sometimes that means a client is not ready to eliminate coffee. As long as you follow the guidance above, you’re taking positive steps toward better health!

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22/06/2024

We know, this is not how your conventional medicine practitioner looks at disease.

☼ Doctors define and treat disease as a set of signs and symptoms.

☼ We simply rebalance, fuel and heal the body.

☼ It’s an entirely different way of thinking of . But we’re here to make it simple and actionable!

☼ Let’s work on your wellness together and get to the root cause of your symptoms, because when you thrive, disease cannot!

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10/06/2024

The truth is, it doesn’t matter how how active you are if the food you fuel your body with isn’t nutrient dense, balanced and free of processed chemicals.

☼ This is why we will usually start by revamping our clients’ . Starting the day with a hydrating, smoothie, eliminating the most common inflammatory foods, balancing our proteins, fats and carbs, and filling our plates with 7-9 servings of colorful and each day.

☼ As always, it’s about . We aren’t going to do more than is realistic and possible while considering the circumstances each of our client is facing in their everyday life.

☼ If you’ve tried to achieve balance and alone without success, it’s time to get some support. Let us guide you along a proven process to whole-body wellness. We guarantee you will feel more energetic and find relief from many of your frustrating symptoms.

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31/05/2024

☼ As Integrative Health Practitioners, we treat the whole person. Not to knock your primary care physician, but they aren’t asking about your stress levels or emotional state, let alone your diet and exercise routine.

If you are struggling to get , doctors will often recommend or after a period of depending on your age.

Thanks to functional medicine labs and our knowledge as IHPs, we can look into your body’s imbalances and take a proven & natural approach to rebalancing your hormones and optimizing your health to carry life. Not only is it more cost effective, but it’s fixing the root cause of your issues, rather than masking them temporarily.

If your body is in fight or flight (whether you’re aware or not), it’s often not capable of pregnancy in its current state. Fortunately, we can fix this with a multi-faceted approach called the DESTRESS protocol.

Lets get rid of your , calm your nervous system, equip your body with all of the nutrients it needs, and optimize your journey together.

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30/05/2024

You can’t always control what happens around you. Be it the economy, your boss’ attitude, or an unexpected bill.

However (and this can be one of the hardest things to wrap our head around), you can control your mind, or your “inner world”.

Being aware of what’s going on around you. Present. Observing.

Unaffected.

Simply put, our and impact the way we experience the world. Change your mind, change your world.

Sounds like a dream, right? Getting to the root cause of imbalances in our body includes the mind. We cannot heal until we address all facets of the DESTRESS protocol, including our emotional well-being.

Let’s work on it together, one day at a time✨

21/05/2024

Our home borders the in , which caught fire and turned into a 14,000+ acre over the course of 36 hours.

It was a surreal experience waiting to see if the wind would stay in our favor or turn against us, requiring us to evacuate with our two babies, two dogs and two cats.

I’m left thinking about the connection between how we can heal our bodies and what the is enduring.

It’s being bombarded with toxins and external environmental factors right now - burning brush, smoke, and the worst… fire retardants being dropped from planes above to stop the spread into residential areas.

Oh how my heart hurts for the desert.

This is what our bodies have been through too. Fires. Storms. Toxins. Not enough rest. Killing the good things in our gut with antibiotics or foods that cause imbalance. Our bodies are just trying to survive. And if we equip then right, they can even heal.

We’ll get to witness the scarred landscape heal over the next few years, as I embark on my own journey healing myself and others. Emptying our rain barrel of toxins and replenishing our bodies with the things it needs to thrive.

Tuesdays thoughts ✨

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