Photo via Visualhunt.com “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth" ― Rainer Maria Rilke Of all the seasons, I don't think there is one that smells better than fall. I love to go for a drive in the country or for a …
The Basics of Food Addiction
Photo via Visual Hunt Back when I first started to look at a healthier way of eating, it also happened to be around the time when I transferred to a new department in the hospital and to a different shift. My new coworkers came to view me as someone who ate liquidy homemade raw goat's …
What is a Certified GAPS Practitioner?
“I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can't change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.” ― …
GAPS and Essential Oils
Photo credit: donnierayjones via Visualhunt.com / CC BY Anyone who has gone through the GAPS diet knows that starting the diet is not the easiest thing you've ever done; it may have been the hardest. The Introduction Diet can be brutal, in terms of how you feel when you are in the throes of detox …
Squash Bars
If there is one thing that helped us get through the GAPS Introduction Diet the first time we did it, it was squash bars. After days of eating soup and veggies and a little egg mixed in, the boys and I were ready for something that seemed to have a little substance to it (and …