Healthy Living for People and the Planet
Dedicated to empowering you with the knowledge to understand your body better and the tools to make healthy living intuitative, approachable, affordable, simple, and fun.
RN, BSN, BS
In an age of seemingly unlimited and contradictory headlines claiming magical cures for all your health ailments, it can be tough to know what to do to improve your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. And if you go directly to the source of peer-reviewed studies, dense research articles are often a complex maze of medical and statistical jargon, making it difficult to navigate.
But wellbeing doesn’t need to be confusing.
In our modern society, it is easy to forget how the so-called “basics” of taking care of ourselves impact our health.
Sleep.
Nutrition.
Movement.
Hydration.
The physical environment.
Social connectedness.
These are the essentials of wellness.
Our body is our home.
The earth is our home.
Taking care of our bodies and the planet are acts of self-care.
And in our busy modern society, I think they both need a lil’ extra care these days!
Growth is More Important than Perfection
When it comes to improving physical, mental, and emotional health, the focus should be on growth, not perfection. There is no “perfect”, only progress. In my quest for my own growth and improvement, my innate curiosity has led me to spend countless hours learning about how to optimize wellbeing and I want to share that information with YOU!
As a registered nurse I have seen first-hand how our modern healthcare system prioritizes profits over healing.
It incentivizes interventions for the sick over preventing disease. Medication is often approached as the first line of defense instead of the last resort. Patients are turfed off to one specialist after another without real solutions.
While Western medicine has certainly given us amazing advancements, a holistic, science-based, lifestyle-focused, and whole-person approach is needed to improve our wellbeing.
As humans, our wellbeing is made up of an interconnection of physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental factors.
Despite what popular media may tell you, you don’t need to buy thousands of dollars worth of fancy equipment, spend 2 hours every day on a perfectly curated morning routine, or take 50 supplements a day to be healthy.
Health should not be a luxury reserved for those with a disposable income and unlimited time.
Many factors influencing health are out of an individuals’ control such as money, work schedules, family caregiving, discrimination in the healthcare system, safe access to nature, etc. Between our fee-for-service healthcare system and the ever increasing demands to our time and resources imposed by our employers and society in general, our capitalistic and colonial societal structures set us up to fail at our health.
While there are major societal and economic systemic structures that need to be replaced (a complex topic that deserves its own space), I am passionate about doing what I can, with the control I have, in my corner of the world to strengthen my wellbeing.
