As a holistic nutrition consultant, I’ve worked with several prenatal and postpartum mamas throughout their pregnancy and postpartum journeys. In working with these mamas, I consistently recommend these six postpartum essentials to assist in their journey to true healing!

Don’t get me wrong—EMFs allow us to thrive with countless modern conveniences. They give us a lot to be grateful for. But even with the many benefits, we can’t ignore the potential disruption and threats to our health.

Combined with the toxins in our food, water, and air, extreme EMF exposure is just another piece of the “toxic overload” puzzle.

Whether you’re seasoned in birth recovery or a first-time mama, postpartum can feel overwhelming. Not only do you have to manage your own fears and needs but you also have to manage everyone else’s, too. As you prepare for a nourishing postpartum, maybe you’re trying to weigh all the mixed messages you’ve heard about postpartum healing. And you’re worried about how the wrong information could impact your baby’s health.

Today, the idea of soaking grains, rice, and legumes feels like a foreign concept to most people.

And spending extra time in the kitchen isn’t exactly appealing…

But don’t let that deter you from this powerful ancestral practice. After all, soaking grains is easy to get the hang of—and it comes with a lot of health benefits.

A missing period (also called amenorrhea) is unnerving. It typically comes with other symptoms like bloating, weight changes, hot flashes, gut problems, nervous system dysregulation, and … you get the idea.

Does hormone imbalance cause infertility? Learn to use nutrition, your nervous system, and the environment to boost hormones and optimize your chances of pregnancy.

You thought you were holistically minded before pregnancy. But now that you have a baby on the way, you’ve never checked ingredients or stuck to an ancestral diet so thoroughly. It’s normal for moms to protect their babies from the dangers of the world—including synthetic ingredients and environmental toxins.

The birth control pill is a pharmaceutical that’s offered to women for everything from endometriosis to period pain and hormone imbalances. It’s a fix-it-all remedy in the medical community—and it’s basically impossible to visit an OBGYN without getting a recommendation to start birth control.

The ancestral diet follows principles of eating that were perfected by “primitive” cultures. Ancestral eating focuses on low-waste recipes that rely on nature—rather than industrial processing—for health and nutrition. Essential minerals, vitamins, and nutrients are all gleaned from natural sources (hunting, gathering, and planting).

The Weston A. Price diet was established by a dentist, Dr. Weston A. Price. In the 1930s, he traveled the world, studying indigenous and untouched people groups to understand what contributed to optimal dental health.

The biggest factor he found? Nutrient density.

So exactly how did our ancestors eat? Many primal societies ate “nose-to-tail.” This means they used every part of a butchered animal—from its organs to its bones and eyes. Parts of the animal that were difficult to consume were often added to broth and soup, while other parts were used to make tools and jewelry.

Mom to mom, our lives are always going to be somewhat chaotic. There’s no way around it. Anyone who offers you total control, complete peace, and a no-mess house is either bluffing or has an amazing mother-in-law.

Meeting your nutritional needs during pregnancy should be as simple as taking a daily prenatal vitamin…right? If only it were this easy.

Another thing we’ve focused heavily on is always making sure Colter gets plenty of protein in. And right now, breakfast has been especially hard because he’s going through a time of egg aversions… so my friend, Hannah, told me about these cottage cheese pancakes she was making, so I tried making a sourdough version and I have to say, they’re really good!

Our liver is responsible for a lot within the body! It’s responsible for making bile, converting thyroid hormones, activates enzymes, metabolizes fats, proteins and carbs, stores nutrients and more!

Now that it’s officially October, I figured it’s time to share a Halloween themed post. In case you’re wondering... no, I don’t think there is such a thing as healthy candy! By “healthy” I just mean better than the alternatives, meaning made from real food ingredients and without artificial dyes, preservatives, fillers and all the other junk found in conventional candy.

At the Weston A Price conference in October, I saw Dr. Bill Schindler speak and he said something that really resonated with me. He shared that one year he made an entire thanksgiving meal from scratch (he made the cheese, butchered the meat, fermented different foods, etc) and while it was exciting to make an entire meal from scratch, it didn’t change anything for his family on the day to day. He encouraged us to make small changes that eliminate unnecessary ingredients and reduce costs around grocery spending. I’ve taken this as my mantra for this year to get back to the basics in the kitchen and start making several of our daily staples.