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“Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places… I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.” Saraha Our earthly bodies are sacred. They are home to our minds, our souls, our very spirit… our bodies hold the essence…
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Let’s be honest, I’m over it. When it comes down to it, I’m tired… more like exhausted. This year has been a LOT… nearly too much honestly. I think many of us are hitting breaking points, but I want to be real for a few minutes… & this post might be a bit messy, but…
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What I learned from reading Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon PhD. If you have read my blog or follow my Instagram, you are probably aware that I am pretty transparent about my personal struggles with body image as well as my relationship with food. I have been…
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Celiac & me. What I have learned from chronic illness… Throughout this month, I have been taking the time to sit and reflect on the last four years. May is Celiac awareness month and I have wanted to write about my journey from diagnosis to now. There is so much to say… I could go…
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A short story on being a woman and having a body… I was looking through old photos when I came across this video of me playing piano on a short weekend trip to NYC. My friends and I were exploring the city when we came across this piano in a park next to a beautiful…
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Last year, when researching the topic of womanhood and feminism for my senior design project, I never expected to discover the things I did. I knew woman’s issues stretched over hundreds of years and touched on many topics. What I did not know was how much health + wellness affected women. While combining my passion…
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Dieticians, body image, intuitive eating & set point. Yesterday I spent the day at the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine meeting with a Celiac dietician through the Center for Digestive Diseases at the University of Chicago (wow, that’s a lot of important sounding words). This was a big appointment for me because I had only…
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From ballet to daddy daughter dances to high school homecoming to my first zumba class … dancing has come in and out of my life since I was a little girl. With every passing year, I start to become more in tune with my truest self. With that personal growth comes a lot of hard…
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From taking photos on a morning hike to capturing the sky full of stars in Northern Wisconsin, taking photos has proved to be a creative outlet for me. Being able to capture emotions, colors and memories in one moment is powerful. It is a way for me to document how I see the world–to capture…
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a photo exploration. Below you will find a short series of photos I took with my iPhone on my recent vacation to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ever since I was diagnosed with Celiac disease (in 2015), walking has been immensely healing for me – somewhat of a constant when it comes to what my body…
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