Most traditional holiday cookies are built on the same foundation: sugar, flour, and more sugar. They taste great for a moment — then leave you inflamed, fatigued, and hunting for more food an hour later. This recipe does the opposite. These Coconut Cranberry Cookies are nut-free, lower in sugar, gluten-free, and naturally rich in healthy fats and fiber.  They were designed with hormone balance, midlife metabolism, and blood sugar stability in mind — without sacrificing flavo

Dr. Stacy Sims’ ROAR has earned its status as a cornerstone in women’s physiology — and deservedly so. It’s one of the first mainstream texts to overturn outdated, male-centric exercise science and state plainly: Women are not small men. This book is a recalibration of decades of fitness and nutrition advice that never accounted for the hormonal, metabolic, and neurological realities of the female body. Sims blends exercise physiology, endocrinology, and clinical experience t

I’m going to be honest: When I first learned about Visceral Reflex Analysis (VRA), I thought it was hokey and weird. I was trained in science, anatomy, neurology, pathology—all the usual “respectable” things. We were somewhere in the mountains of North Carolina at a chiropractic office, when someone started talking about muscle testing and organ reflex points and also when my inner skeptic crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. “Sure. Touch a spot, push on an arm, and suddenly

Healing tends to move through recognizable phases—not in order like a checklist, but in cycles, like a spiral. You revisit them over and over, each time a little deeper. Phase 1: Inspiration – The Spark Something stirs. A book, a conversation, a lab result A moment of “I can’t keep living like this” A quiet whisper: “More is possible.” This phase is fueled by possibility. You feel a little more awake. Motivation rises. You might start gathering information, looking into new w

Your body isn’t just muscles, bones, and lab numbers. It also has a blueprint—a subtle architecture of light and sound that shapes how you feel, heal, and experience life. Kathara Bio-Regenesis Technique is a gentle, hands-on form of energy work that focuses on that blueprint. In the Solstace Sanctuary, that looks like: You lying fully clothed on a table in a calm, quiet room Light touch at specific points on the body A focus on safety and relaxation in your nervous system Me

There are seasons in life that don’t show up on the calendar. The day you realize you can’t keep running on fumes. The moment your body whispers, “Something has to change. ”The quiet knowing that your nervous system is tired of living in survival mode. Solstace was created for those in-between times. Tucked upstairs, Solstace of Natural Wayz, is an intimate retreat space designed to help your system unwind, recalibrate, and remember its own rhythm. It isn’t about fixing you.

Winter invites a different kind of pace. The world softens, the evenings stretch out, and something in us naturally turns inward. It’s a season for warm hands, slow rituals, and reconnecting with simple comforts. Out of this quiet space, I created something I’m incredibly proud to share: ✨ In the Quiet Still: A Winter Apothecary of Forest Tinctures Now available on Amazon. This book is a gentle companion for the colder months—a blend of herbal craft, winter imagery, and heart

Some people can skip breakfast, run on caffeine, fast until noon, hit the gym hard, and feel fine. Others try the exact same thing and end up anxious, shaky, exhausted, and hungry, yet somehow gain weight despite eating next to nothing. This isn’t a lack of discipline. This isn’t “not trying hard enough.” This is biology—specifically, genetics. There are certain gene variations—most famously COMT, MAO, DBH, and sometimes MTHFR—that make it harder for the body to break down an

There is a strange cultural myth that confidence must be loud. That effectiveness requires pressure and force. That authority announces itself with force, volume, or a firm grip. That the practitioner who adjusts aggressively, speaks over others, or moves with theatrical certainty must somehow be “more skilled.” But here’s the truth no one names: Force is not confidence. Force is a noise familiar to dysregulated nervous systems. When a person is used to chaos, a chaotic pract

The weeks after the autumnal equinox always carry a strange kind of quiet—almost like nature has lowered its voice. The daylight shortens, evenings stretch, and then the clocks fall back. You’d think a one-hour shift wouldn’t rattle us, but our bodies run on the language of light, not the language of clocks. Your circadian rhythm—the internal timing system that manages sleep, mood, hormones, digestion, stress responses, and even immunity—takes its cues from sunrise and sunset

Conscious Nutrition: Eating With Awareness Instead of Anxiety For years, I watched people cling to diets the way you hold onto a lifeline in rough water. Carb fear, fat fear, calorie counting, fasting windows, protein obsession — the whole buffet of modern nutritional noise. And underneath it all, most people weren’t learning to nourish themselves. They were learning to disconnect from their bodies. I wrote Conscious Nutrition because nutrition shouldn’t feel like a punishmen

Unstuck: The Little Book About the Big Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About There’s a funny thing about constipation: nearly everyone deals with it at some point, yet almost no one talks about it until they’re miserable. As a practitioner, I’ve heard it whispered, joked about, or mentioned as an afterthought — as if bowel movements are some optional body feature instead of a major sign of health. I wrote Unstuck because I got tired of watching people quietly suffer through some

Your food supply is not what it used to be, our toxin load is incredible, and our stressors are insurmountable. IF (a big IF) nutrients are available in your food, the ability of your body to break it apart, transport it, and use it to heal, remains a mystery. If you choose supplements as part of nutritional therapy, it is a slow brew to help the body heal itself. It is not intended to treat a symptom, rather to resource each cell of your body to positively change your health

Magnesium is a nutrient that is involved in over 300 cellular reactions. Therefore, proper magnesium availability can enhance over 300 processes in your body and positively impact health. Many things within your life will deplete magnesium including stress, disease, medications, inflammation, genetic mutation, and certain foods. Blood tests can help determine temporary levels of magnesium, but this singular value should not solely be used to determine deficiency. If you have

This post contain affiliate links. Please refer to the site disclaimer. I am an entirely new human from a few years ago. This transformation could not be more apparent than in a recent addition to my self-love routine. Even just a year ago, I would not have called deliberate cold exposure self-love...I would have deemed it a torment, and years on the path of hypothyroidism defined this belief. With hypothyroidism, any temperature below 80 degrees turned into lingering pain. M

Not All Are Healers… The well-deserved title of doctor is not synonymous with, nor owned by, allopathy, human, or conventional medical care. We certainly honor a doctoral investment in fields like Nutrition, Naturopathy, English, Theology, Mathematics, Psychology,or Physics, all the same. In the doctor, we find a scholarly technician of a specific box of information and application. Contrastingly, the call of the Healer rings a much deeper tone. The Healer can fuel the creden

I have determined that farming, flower beds, and gardening are not my jelly. Although I’m still young at this ancient art, foraging to create herbal medicinals, tinctures, teas, and nutrient-dense foods is what I’m drawn to. I prefer the medicines and the truths that are laid in front of me in the form of herbs, or what we have been trained to know as “weeds”. Those weeds that we yank from the soil or kill with chemicals, can feed us and heal us. The weeds can tell us what nu

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