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Guest Post: What This Health Coach Eats and Why

Carly Shankman is a Wellness Activist & certified Holistic Health Coach on a mission to create a happier, healthier world through whole food nutrition & personal transformation. She believes that mental, spiritual and physical health are not exclusive of one another. Connect with Carly on her website,Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. It’s time I tell my story, my journey – I hope it helps you on yours. This is simply my personal experience with food. I was never a huge meat eater.  I can recall having meat on the dinner table and asking my mom to cut it up into perfect little pieces so there were no veins, skin, bones or anything that would remind me that I was eating an animal.  I wanted to disassociate between the food I was putting in my mouth and the fact that it had once been a living, breathing animal. At 18, when I left…

20 Tips To Help You Look and Feel Your Best For Your Wedding and Honeymoon

I’m getting married in nine days. NINE DAYS! I’m incredibly excited, but also incredibly nervous. I’ve really enjoyed being engaged and planning the wedding. I want everything to go perfectly. I want to feel good. I want clear skin. I want to avoid getting a cold sore (which happens when I’m stressed!). I want my hair to look awesome. Like every bride, we just want what we want, how we want it, and when we want it. And it’s totally okay to want these things for yourself, you deserve it! So here are my top 20 tips to keeping your body healthy, your mind healthy, your skin clear, your hair hydrated and just making sure that you’re prepared for your big day and the honeymoon. Eat well. No stupid diets or juice fasts. EAT. GOOD. FOOD. This includes pastured meat and butter, wild seafood, fermented foods, raw and veggies, low-sugar fruits like…

Daily Essential Oil Routine For Clear Skin

Since posting my video on my daily essential oil routine, I’ve gotten a lot of requests to post my skin care regimen specifically. First, let me say that problem skin is a largely internal issue. It is a reflection of what’s happening in your gut. If you have leaky gut, candida or an unhealthy diet in general, that is likely the root cause of your pimples, blemishes, blackheads, or any skin related issue and needs to be dealt with. I personally have been blessed with bad skin. I developed severe acne in fourth grade that took me over ten years to clear through diet and my DIY products, which I now make and sell through my store, Ancestral Organics. With every $50 order, I’ll send you four weeks worth of meal plans to help combat acne from the inside out. Morning Routine: Because the face doesn’t get dirty while sleeping, I just…

Use This To Lengthen and Strengthen Your Hair

When I got engaged last December, I knew I wanted long, strong, healthy-looking hair for my wedding. Shortly after Scott asked me to marry him, we had an appointment at a venue on the Chesapeake Bay – I had gone to a wedding there once before and always knew I wanted to be married there. So when they said they had July 19th available – I jumped on the date. Hell, it was the only available date this summer! But that left me with a short seven months to strengthen and grow out my dry, damaged, brittle hair. In October and November, my hair started breaking off at the ends. I mean serious breakage, the hair on the right side of my head is much shorter than the left. It just…broke. I didn’t know why – I was using my organic shampoo and conditioner, but even so, the shampoo was too…

What To Eat For a Healthy Pregnancy and An Easier Birth

I’m getting married in a month. A month! And while I’m not planning on getting knocked up immediately, I am planning on preparing my body for a healthy pregnancy. You see, what you eat, drink, consume and apply to the body makes a huge difference in not only the health of the fetus, but a healthy pregnancy and birth in general. Dr. Weston A Price traveled the world studying traditional cultures – cultures that still ate their ancestral diets, cultures that foraged and hunted their own food, cultures that were living on much as their ancestors had been for thousands of years. When Dr. Price asked a woman why they put such emphasis on eating the way they did, she told him “To make healthy babies.” This has always resonated with me. I think most people have forgotten this ancestral wisdom – that pregnancy isn’t something to take lightly, it’s…

My Essential Oil Routine – How To Use Essential Oils Everyday For Health and Happiness

First things first, I’m prone to both acne and anxiety. I’m very lucky like that (just kidding, I really am a lucky person). But because of these two things that are so prevalent in my daily life, I have to take active steps to keep both of them at bay. Truth be told, I could take medications for these things that treat the symptoms but not the actual problem. Instead, I choose to use essential oils – which treat both the root cause and the symptoms. Win, win! Here’s my daily routine: Morning I rarely shower in the morning, how dirty am I getting while I sleep? Because of my skin cleansing process, I wake up with balanced skin. I wash my face with water, apply a toner and a moisturizer. You can see my full routine here. I apply my deodorant, which is amazing and is the only natural deodorant that keeps…

How To Detox Using Essential Oils

In the months before I got married, I can’t tell you how many women I heard were hopping on the trendy detox train. These are literally things I’ve been told, or I heard when eavesdropping: “I’m doing a three-day juice cleanse before my wedding. I’m not going to eat a single thing until we’re served dinner at the reception.” Good luck with that, lady. Not only are you starving yourself, you’re going to be eating a ton of sugar which will make you break out. You’re only going to be thinking about food and oh yeah, YOU’RE LITERALLY STARVING. “I’m only eating raw fruits and veggies the week before my wedding.” Why in the world would you do that? Again, this is just another form of starvation. Not only are you likely going to become very bloated and constipated, if you’re not eating any fat then you aren’t even absorbing…

Five Ways To Heal A UTI Without Antibiotics

A urinary tract infection occurs when harmful germs enter the urethra. The germs travel up the urethra and into the bladder, causing an infection. If left untreated the infection can travel to the kidneys, causing serious damage. UTIs are incredibly common and are not fun. They can cause intense pain and discomfort. If you go to your doctor suffering from a UTI, they’ll undoubtedly hand you a prescription for antibiotics. The problem with this is that antibiotics are not selective in the bacteria they destroy, which means they kill both the bad and good bacteria. It can take years for your body to recover from antibiotics and rebuild beneficial gut flora. A lack of this good gut flora leads to even more susceptibility to infection, mood disorders and a suppressed immune system. Not to mention the fact that the overprescription of antibiotics is causing bacteria to mutate and create superbugs.…

The Best Essential Oils For Acne

If you’re new to AN, you can read about my skin issues here. Basically, I started getting acne in fourth grade and it didn’t stop until my early twenties when I finally figured out that acne is an internal issue, and how to properly take care of my skin externally. When I say I had skin issues, I don’t mean a few breakouts here and there. I have deep, painful, cystic acne. Like most people who suffer from troubled skin, I had some pretty intense internal issues that I needed to take care of. I was dealing with gut issues, inflammation, high blood sugar and a lack of beneficial gut flora. All of this combined with the fact that I was trying everything under the sun (and I mean everything from creams to pills to spot treatments) just exacerbated my skin issues. I didn’t know that this was an internal issue, I…

Why Are Hospitals Giving Out This Toxic Drink?

If you trust hospitals, you may not after reading the ingredients in a common drink they give out. My grandma is 88 and has spent most of her life heeding the advice of doctors. When they told her to stop eating eggs, she did. When they told her to make grains the basis of her diet, she did. And she’s suffering because of it. The woman that grew up eating fresh food from her backyard has slowly deteriorated. Over time, she lost over 50 lbs and six inches from her height. She had blood clots, surgeries—you name it. And every single time I’ve visited her in the hospital, they’ve given her Ensure. Right now she’s in a rehab facility recovering from knee surgery. What do they give her every morning? Ensure (with a side of toast, oatmeal or fake eggs – gotta keep that cholesterol down and the blood sugar…