Core Eating Strategies for Hormone Health 

Food can be an incredible teacher and healer. This makes it a great place to start in rebalancing hormones. With that, there's so much information out there! Let's dispel the myths and explore how food impacts our entire well-being. Get ready to learn the best food choices and eating behaviors for hormone health (some may surprise you!). We'll also chat about cravings, emotional eating, and align our actions with the current season. These are core eating practices to create a strong immunity—a foundation to hormone health. 

Food, Mood and Cravings Workshop

Sweet, salty or high-fat—which one is your personal craving? More importantly, what’s the message behind it? Join me as I talk about the deeper implications of food cravings, aversions, and eating behaviors (it’s not physical hunger or nutrient need). Together we can develop a keen awareness and understanding of our relationship with food—as how we do food is how we do life. I'll start by sharing the deeper messages behind common cravings and how our gut and emotions are intricately linked. We’ll then explore hunger and fullness cues, intuitive and mindful eating, along with helpful strategies to manage emotional eating. Let's bring the how and why we eat into the conversation—understanding they are as important as what we eat.

The Gut-Hormone Connection 

Did you know the digestive system has its own nervous system, contains brain receptors impacting our state of mind, and is home to the majority of the immune system? That the GI tract directly impacts hormone health—acting as a first line of defense against illness, while impacting mood, metabolism and quality of sleep? There’s more to the gut than a way to digest food and eliminate wastes. Its health is directly linked to our overall well-being.

In this workshop I talk about the gut-brain axis, the latest on the microbiome, benefits of intermittent fasting, and give practical nutrition tips. The intention is to create a foundation of practices that produce a healthy gut, strong immunity and peaceful mind. I’ll direct the conversation to align with the winter season ahead and all that it brings—a time to slow down and prepare for new beginnings.

End the Dieting Cycle Workshop

Wanting to lose weight and as fast as possible without disruption to life is the dieter’s appeal. Drawing from East and West perspectives, I'll talk about the diet culture along with the physiological and psychological reasons why conventional approaches to weight don't last. I’ll then share what’s at the root of weight struggles (as it’s not simply an overeating or sedentary issue) and what practical actions you can begin to implement in your life. Let’s move forward with the tools to eat in a way that is flexible and sustainable for long-term success. 

Heart-Healthy Eating Workshop

Heart disease continues to be the number one cause of death. The good news is research reveals that most heart disease is preventable and determined by our eating and lifestyle patterns. Join me in this workshop as we dive into strategies for protecting and nourishing the heart. I’ll share a holistic approach—linking the physiological factors, energetic influences, and role genetics may play. We’ll then discuss specific foods, preparation techniques, and eating behaviors to make supportive choices for heart health and ultimately longevity. Let’s continue to find ways to heal through food and do it together. 

Food Strategies for Better Sleep Workshop

On average we spend 1/3 of our lifetime—about 25 years—sleeping. For many, sleep is a struggle and for others, it hasn’t met the priority list. Join me in this workshop as I dive into why we need sleep, what regulates it, what happens when we don't get enough, and how much we actually need. I’ll then share how our gut health directly impacts sleep quality and the intricate link to appetite, cravings, energy, cognitive function, and mood. You'll learn specific food strategies to improve sleep while also exploring ways to address digestive challenges such as heartburn, gas, bloating and constipation that may get in the way. Let’s continue to find ways to heal through food and do it together.

Finding Mindfulness through Food Workshop

From the pandemic to work to relationships, we all encounter stress and cope in personal ways. What if there were methods to diffuse stress quicker or before it even started? What if we used our relationship with food to help us figure that out? Come join me as I share the world of mindfulness—the latest in brain research, quick mindset practices, and food strategies to enhance cognitive function and state of mind. Let’s discover how to use our kitchen time to go beyond de-stressing—boosting confidence, creativity and compassion. You’ll walk away from this workshop with brain-supportive go-to foods and a fresh new way to approach the entire culinary experience—a way that will directly impact your health and everyday life.                    

Food Beyond Calories Workshop

Mainstream trends have us in a counting calories and nutrient focused approach to nutrition. It’s time to go beyond and create a complete representation of food—bringing ALL of its traits into the conversation. Did you know that that food has thermal natures—warming, cooling, moistening and even drying qualities? Has energetic properties that nourish specific organs and tissues? Its own chemical signature that communicates with your DNA? Everything about your eating experience matters. This includes how meals are prepared and eaten, along with state of mind and conditioned beliefs about the food before you.  Join me as I go beyond calories—introducing all of food’s characteristics, their influences on health and how you can incorporate this depth of understanding in choosing practical food choices that personally support you. Let’s expand how we relate to food—seeing its healing and health enhancing potential.  

Seasonal Eating Workshop

Do you catch a cold in the fall, experience arthritic flare-ups in the winter and allergies in the spring? How about digestive sensitivities and mood swings when seasons change?  Your body is attuned to nature and directly impacts your physical, mental and emotional health—as everything that’s happening outside is happening within you. Consider yourself a miniature universe. Come join me as I share what each season represents, how to live in harmony, and do so through your relationship with food. Learn practical seasonal food choices, preparation techniques, and recipe suggestions that will help keep you remain centered in the transitions and in a strong state of well-being.

Chakra Nutrition Workshop

When viewing food as medicine and a way of life, nutrition takes on a different meaning and purpose. Nutrition expands past the physical body’s needs and becomes a topic of nourishment—how cravings and aversions, addictions and binges, and conditioned beliefs and emotional state, also play a role. Join in this workshop as I share the connections and messages behind the most common food interactions—sweet cravings, aversion to fish, the daily coffee need, love affair with bread; to emotional eating and yoyo dieting. Each experience has a message for you. Come learn those connections, deepening your relationship with food and ultimately with yourself.

Food for Longevity Workshop

We, as a society, are certainly living longer. An extended lifespan doesn’t necessarily mean a fulfilling and healthy one. Join me as I share a new paradigm—merging East and West ideas providing a broader and deeper insight into the aging process. Let's explore the latest scientific understandings that make it possible to reach our 8th decade of life in complete health—physically, mentally and emotionally. Let's initiate this through our relationship with food. Learn the pieces of the longevity puzzle along with the best food practices to build a foundation of health and well-being—as we're not looking to merely survive this lifetime, but instead to thrive. 

Top Nutrition Practices Workshop

Shifting the way you eat is not an easy, linear process. It actually can be rather messy because how we do food is how we do life. This means there's deeper belief systems, thoughts, emotions and behaviors that are tied to our food choices. Be prepared for things to surface as you make adjustments to your food. With that, my intention with this workshop is to share the key strategies from each nutrition talk. Consider it an opportunity to review and perhaps a starting point to begin. Start with one action at a time—bringing compassion and humor along for the ride.